Professional and Personnel Team Leadership Psychiatry (70–90 %) | Spitex

About the job

Shaping psychiatry. Leading people. Making an impact.

Spitex rechtes Limmattal offers a unique environment for exciting encounters and varied assignments with its urban and rural surroundings. We are a forward-thinking non-profit organisation with over 90 employees and foster a reliable, appreciative, and collegial team culture.

The municipalities of Oberengstringen, Unterengstringen, Weiningen, Geroldswil, Oetwil a.d.L., and Fahrweid, with a total of over 22,500 inhabitants, place their trust in us.

At the heart of our actions are people – both our clients and our employees. To continue ensuring our professional and individual quality of care and to successfully further develop our psychiatry department, we are looking for a personality who accompanies people, supports employees, and actively helps shape the future of our psychiatry department together with us.

After many successful years, our long-standing team leader for psychiatry is retiring. Therefore, we are seeking an engaged leader with psychiatric expertise, foresight, and enthusiasm for taking on responsibility from 1 June 2027 or by arrangement.

Professional and personnel team leadership psychiatry (70–90 %) | Spitex

This role ideally combines leadership, expertise, and operational work. You lead your team with appreciation and clarity, support complex psychiatric situations, and remain close to our clients.

You take responsibility for people, processes, and quality – and actively contribute your ideas to the further development of our psychiatry department.

Your main tasks include: 

• Professional and personnel leadership as well as further development of a small, well-established psychiatry team
• Ensuring professional, client-oriented, and high-quality psychiatric care
• Regular assignments with our clients in their home environment and support in complex psychiatric care situations
• Promotion and support of your employees in their professional and personal development
• Active participation in shaping and further developing the psychiatry department as well as involvement in projects and change processes
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with relatives, doctors, and internal and external specialists

You bring with you: 

• Completed training as a certified psychiatric nurse HF/FH and authorisation for needs assessment according to Bepsy
• Leadership experience is an advantage or motivation to take the next step into a leadership role
• Ideally experience in outpatient psychiatry or the Spitex environment
• High professional and social competence and enjoyment in accompanying and supporting people
• Independent, structured, and solution-oriented working style with a high degree of personal responsibility
• Openness to change and enthusiasm for actively shaping developments
• Confident use of digital work tools and documentation systems
• Driving licence category B (no own vehicle required)

Our successful collaboration: 

• High degree of creative freedom in a responsible leadership role
• Opportunity to actively further develop and shape the psychiatry department
• Short decision-making paths and direct exchange with the management team
• High predictability thanks to regulated working hours without night, weekend, or public holiday shifts
• Varied and meaningful work with a lot of personal responsibility
• Appreciative team culture and supportive collaboration
• Modern work tools and contemporary infrastructure
• Attractive employment conditions and opportunities for further training
• Exciting assignments in a diverse region

Even if you do not meet all the criteria or prefer a different workload – please feel free to apply online.

Motivated colleagues are already looking forward to meeting you and supporting you in your daily work.

Simply send us your CV, diploma, and most recent work reference as the first step.

If you have any questions or uncertainties, Pascal Jost, Head of Nursing Service, is happy to assist you at 043 455 10 10. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.