Certified Nurse – Head of Day Care Service

Welcome to your new workplace.

The Hottingen Retirement Centre offers you a position from 1 September 2026 or by arrangement with a workload of 40 – 80% as

Certified Nurse – Head of Day Care Service

The new day care service for people with dementia takes place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, starting work at 10:30 am and finishing at 4:30 pm.

If you also want to make a difference in people’s lives, these are your tasks:

• Ensuring professional care and activation of day guests affected by dementia
• Management and responsibility for the day care and lunch service for people with dementia
• Independent design and assurance of an appealing daily programme with suitable activities for dementia
• Collaboration with the internal home care organisation of the Hottingen Retirement Centre, relatives and other specialist agencies; management of the corresponding documentation

To ensure you feel comfortable with us, many benefits await you. To name just a few:

• Regular working days and hours (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
• Opportunity to increase workload from 40% in the day group to up to 80% in internal home care if interested
• Own pension fund with employer’s over-obligatory contribution
• Worldwide private accident insurance
• Financial support for public transport subscription or bicycle
• Well accessible by public transport directly in the city of Zurich

All employee benefits can be found here . If you want to be the best version of yourself, you will find the opportunities with us.

This is how you convince us:

• Completed training as a certified nurse (AKP, DN 2, HF, FH or recognition of a foreign diploma)
• Professional experience and further training with a focus on dementia
• Very good German language skills
• Respectful and appreciative interaction with day guests and all employees
• Independent working style and organisational talent
• Experience in leading group offers is an advantage
• Our and your values: appreciation, partnership, reliability, transparency and seeing the whole picture

For further information, please contact Uiara Thommen Schröter, Head of Nursing Team Hottingen Retirement Centre,

T 044 268 77 20 or email u.thommenschroeter@azh.ch

Please apply via our online tool.

We wish to fill this position with direct applications, without the support of recruitment agencies. Thank you very much in advance for your understanding.

About the Hottingen Retirement Centre #LI-PZ1

The Hottingen Retirement Centre is an operation of the Diakoniewerk Neumünster Foundation – Swiss Nursing School. It offers 150 tenants modern assisted living for the elderly. The Oase restaurant and seminar rooms also belong to it. In total, more than 50 employees work in the areas of nursing, gastronomy, housekeeping, technical service and administration.