Operating room assistant - 80% to 100%

Company description ##

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

The Operating Rooms Directorate (DBO) has the main mission of facilitating interdisciplinary and interprofessional work, while improving the efficiency of operating room management. It ensures reinforced governance and close coordination with users, as well as with general management, in order to optimize processes, flows, and resource management. The DBO also works towards the continuous improvement of patient care by guaranteeing the quality and safety of care, the fluidity of clinical pathways, and performance monitoring. Finally, it promotes interprofessional synergies, continuous training, as well as innovation and research in the service of institutional excellence.

The Operating Rooms Service is composed of 8 modern operating rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technical platforms. Designed to offer optimal patient care 24 hours a day. Every year, more than 30,000 interventions are carried out by 1,500 dedicated professionals. These specialists cover all surgical disciplines, such as gynecology-obstetrics, ENT, maxillofacial, aesthetic, reconstructive, cardiac, vascular, visceral, urological, orthopedic, traumatological, hand, neurosurgery, ophthalmological, and pediatric, including robotic surgery.

Job description ##

As an operating room assistant, you prepare the room according to asepsis and safety prescriptions. You participate in the reception and installation of patients as well as quality/safety controls.

You optimally ensure the progress of surgical interventions while respecting asepsis and hospital hygiene rules.

The forecasting and handling of technical equipment necessary for each type of intervention is an integral part of the position.

You maintain the premises and the equipment.

Qualifications ##

Holding a Federal Certificate of Vocational Education and Training (AFP) as a healthcare and support assistant (ASA), you have perfect mastery of French, both spoken and written.

You have a minimum of two years of experience in a hospital environment. Proven experience within operating rooms is an asset.

You have real interpersonal skills that allow you to work in a multidisciplinary team. A flexible and organized person, you know how to adapt to different contexts, unforeseen events, and variations in workload.

Thanks to your team spirit, you know how to work collaboratively but also autonomously. Your empathy and interpersonal skills allow you to position yourself as a full partner.

Demonstrating motivation and listening skills, you are a dynamic person, ready to invest yourself in an institution whose values you share, namely: trust, respect, team spirit, recognition, equality, and inclusion.

Additional information ##

You can work both daytime shifts, as well as night and weekend shifts.

• Start date: to be agreed
• Number of positions: 3
• Activity rate: 80% to 100%
• Function class: 9
• Contract type: CDI
• Application deadline: 20.10.2026
• Inquiries: Mme. M. Hannachi, Deputy Head of Nursing for operating rooms, [email protected]

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 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.

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