Director of Nursing - 100%

In this strategic role, you define and lead the institutional nursing policy to guarantee the quality, safety, and excellence of services within the HUG. As a permanent member of the executive committee, you actively contribute to the institution's strategic directions and support the transformations necessary for the evolution of the health system.

You develop a clear and mobilizing vision for nursing, evolve organizational models and professional practices, and ensure coherent and effective nursing governance in a decentralized environment. In close partnership with the Medical Directorate, departments, and professional sectors, you strengthen interprofessionalism, the medical-nursing partnership, and the transversality of care.

Faced with the major challenges of attractiveness, succession, and the shortage of health professionals, you steer policies for skill development, training, and leadership, while supporting the academization of nursing and the emergence of new professional roles, particularly advanced nursing practices.

You initiate and direct strategic, innovation, and research projects aimed at the continuous improvement of service quality. You anticipate organizational, technological, and clinical evolutions, while integrating the challenges of the ecological transition into nursing care.

You represent the nursing authority to internal and external bodies, institutional partners, and professional associations. Attentive to political, institutional, and health issues, you maintain a constructive dialogue with social partners and contribute to the influence of the HUG within regional and national professional and academic networks.

You hold a university degree in nursing sciences or health, supplemented by higher-level training in management, leadership, or organizational management. You benefit from proven experience in strategic management roles within a large-scale hospital establishment, ideally a university hospital, and master the challenges specific to complex, multidisciplinary, and highly matrixed environments.

You possess solid expertise in nursing governance as well as proven experience in defining and deploying nursing policies on an institutional scale. You are able to evolve organizations while preserving institutional missions and values, and have demonstrated experience in leading large-scale transformations and supporting teams in complex change contexts.

Your organizational management skills are recognized: steering human and financial resources, analyzing workloads, optimizing organizations, change management, and coordination of multiple actors. Thanks to your capacities for analysis, discernment, and listening, you make informed decisions in constantly evolving environments. You demonstrate coherence between your decisions, your actions, and the values you uphold.

You have demonstrated your ability to develop solid medical-nursing partnerships based on the complementarity of expertise and the pursuit of common goals. Recognized for your unifying leadership, you know how to mobilize teams, create buy-in around a common vision, and foster collaboration between stakeholders with sometimes divergent interests.

You master the challenges related to the attractiveness of nursing professions, the retention of employees, talent development, as well as succession planning in a context marked by the shortage of health professionals. You have a marked interest in skill development, training, and the academization of nursing, and maintain close collaborations with academic and professional partners.

You encourage the development of clinical research, innovation, and prospective approaches. Sensitive to the evolutions of the health system, you are interested in the challenges of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and the integration of new technologies to serve the quality of care, organizational efficiency, and the patient experience.

You possess an excellent understanding of the political, institutional, and health issues that influence health organizations. You are recognized for your communication, negotiation, and institutional representation qualities and know how to develop relationships of trust with internal and external partners, authorities, professional networks, and social partners.

Finally, you demonstrate great relational intelligence, a strong capacity for influence, and managerial courage. Comfortable in the roles described, you know how to manage a significant workload, evolve in demanding contexts, and face pressure while maintaining a strategic vision and a high capacity for action.

• Start date: To be defined in 2027
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Job class: 30
• Contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 03.11.20226
• Requests for information: Cabinet Page Executive, M. R. Asseo, tel 021 561 31 00

To submit your application please use this link Director of Nursing - 100% (https://www.pageexecutive.com/job-detail/ref/jn-032026-6980934)

This advertisement is addressed to women and men alike.

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