Nurse - analgesia team - 80% to 100%

Company Description ##

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

Counting nearly 1200 employees, the département de médecine aiguë (DMA) includes the services of anesthesiology, clinical pharmacology and toxicology, intensive care, and emergencies. It responds to a quadruple mission through its services which provide expertise in frequent interaction with all the Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, thanks to a transversal platform, with the objective of ensuring the best possible patient care.

The Service d-anesthésiologie is a transversal service of the HUG at the heart of the technical platform. With its 7 medical units and a research and innovation unit, its mission aims to ensure the comfort and safety of female and male patients during therapeutic or diagnostic, medical or surgical acts, as well as during post-interventional care, while ensuring proper pain management.

As the largest center in Switzerland in terms of the number of interventional acts performed per year, the Service d-anesthésiologie is at the forefront of progress made in this field. The service also provides pre- and post-graduate and continuing education for nurses and doctors in specialized training. As a service of prestations, anesthesiology also intervenes in the field of interventional analgesia and in life-threatening emergency situations intra-hospital or pre-hospital alongside the Service des urgences.

Job Description ##

As part of your function as a nurse in charge of in-hospital and outpatient analgesia, you will ensure the care of female and male patients presenting with acute, complex or chronic pain across all sectors of the Cluse-Roseraie site.

You will perform specialized pain assessments by analyzing its characteristics as well as its functional impact, and support the patient in understanding chronic pain.

In close collaboration with the doctor, you will adapt treatments, monitor their effectiveness, evaluate adherence, and adjust care to prevent dosage errors and the chronicity of pain.

You will implement and ensure the follow-up of advanced analgesic techniques or devices. Through a non-pharmacological approach, you will use complementary techniques and the helping relationship to promote physical and psychological pain relief.

You will conduct therapeutic education actions with patients and their relatives to strengthen therapeutic adherence, autonomy, and to identify beliefs, resources, and aggravating factors.

As a key actor in the interdisciplinary approach, you will actively collaborate with all health professionals to conduct a personalized and coordinated therapeutic project.

Finally, you will exercise a role as a reference person for the various medico-care partners in order to guarantee the quality and consistency of analgesic strategies within the institution.

As part of the position, 20% must be performed in SSPI (recovery room) and in SINPI (peri-interventional intermediate care).

Qualifications ##

You hold a Bachelor HES in nursing or an equivalent recognized title by the Swiss Red Cross.

Two years of experience is required. Training in analgesia is an asset. Training in hypnotic practice is to be expected.

You master common institutional applications and possess excellent mastery of the French language both orally and in writing.

You possess a keen sense of organization, priority management, and resistance to stress.

You demonstrate versatility, adaptability, as well as excellent interpersonal skills.

Of a dynamic and motivated nature, you are attentive and ready to invest yourself in an institution whose relational values you share, namely trust, respect, team spirit, recognition, equality, and inclusion.

Finally, you demonstrate discretion and diplomacy in your daily practice.

Additional Information ##

You will work day, night, and weekend shifts according to the needs of the service.

• Start date: to be agreed.
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: minimum 80% including 20% to be performed in SSPI and SINPI
• Function class: 15
• Contract: CDI or CDD
• Application deadline: 21.10.2026
• Inquiry: Mme E. Dongois, RES EXTOP / ORL / Antalgie, tel. 079 553 22 28.

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This advertisement is addressed indistinctly to women and men.

Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l'emploi.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.