Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) — Kantonsspital Winterthur (KSW)

Full description

As a member of the management team, you will actively shape the strategic development of the hospital and assume overall responsibility for the strategic and operational management of the care and stay area. With the transfer of nursing staff from medicine and surgery to the area of ​​nursing and stay, an important development step will be implemented on January 1, 2028. You will design this new organizational structure together with the clinical areas and help to successfully establish the new nursing organization. Your area of ​​responsibility also includes the areas of care development, aftercare management, guest service, patient scheduling, seat guard pool as well as telephone switchboard and information. This function offers you a lot of creative freedom: As a member of the management team, you shape the development of the entire hospital, establish a new care organization and can consistently think about care quality, workforce, digitalization and interprofessional care. Together with a committed management team, you will have the opportunity to sustainably develop the nursing and patient-oriented care of an important Swiss center hospital. We also offer attractive working conditions, opportunities for flexible work, comprehensive training and employee offers, excellent social benefits and an open and inclusive corporate culture.

Tasks

• As a member of the Executive Board, you will share responsibility for the strategic, organizational and economic development of the entire hospital and effectively bring the perspective of nursing and patient-oriented care to the management of the company
• You will assume overall responsibility for the area of nursing and residence and shape the new nursing organization with a clear transformation mandate. You will successfully carry out the transfer of nursing staff in medicine and surgery together with the clinical departments and establish a sustainable, interprofessional management and cooperation culture
• Together with your team, you will strategically develop nursing strategies and care models as well as nursing, quality and care concepts and consistently align them with patient safety, cost-effectiveness and innovation
• You manage human, financial and operational resources on the basis of clearly defined quality, performance and efficiency indicators
• Together with the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and other key people/departments, you will further develop interprofessional care models and patient processes
• You will drive the digital transformation of nursing and use technologies, data, digital systems (e.g. HIS, LEP) and nursing science findings in a targeted manner to relieve employees and further improve quality, patient safety and productivity
• Together with HR and the clinical departments, you will further develop the workforce strategy of nursing and create attractive conditions for the sustainable recruitment, retention, development and needs-based deployment of employees. In doing so, you will promote contemporary professional roles, career models as well as further education and training
• You lead your team in a goal-oriented manner, promote its development and are responsible for recruitments and personnel decisions
• You represent nursing in expert committees, maintain cooperation with educational institutions as well as with upstream and downstream health institutions and authorities

Profile

• You have a sound nursing education as well as a university degree and/or a proven management qualification at university level
• You have several years of leadership and management experience in a demanding nursing or healthcare organization and have a proven track record of successfully shaping major organizational changes
• You are a credible and inspiring leader with a high level of change and implementation skills. You win people over to common goals, develop leaders and provide orientation even in demanding change processes
• You combine nursing standards with entrepreneurial and business thinking and convince with decisiveness, performance orientation and a consistently solution-oriented attitude
• You will lead and communicate on an equal footing across professional and hierarchical boundaries and, together with the CMOs and other managers, you will further develop consistently interprofessional care

Benefits

• Work and private life should be compatible. That's why the KSW offers you flexible and flexible working hours, home office, generous maternity leave, paternity leave and employment levels that can be adapted to different phases of life.
• Develop professionally and personally: Every year, around 40 interdisciplinary and 50 professional training courses are open to you at the KSW. We also support external further training – in terms of time and/or financially.;
• Sometimes support is needed. In the event of personal stress, prolonged illness or difficult experiences in your professional or private life, various confidential consultations are available to you at the KSW.;
• At KSW, we work with and for each other. Appreciation, open and respectful communication as well as cooperation across professional groups and departments characterize our everyday work. In doing so, you should be able to contribute and develop with your ideas and strengths.;
• Your future is also taken care of: You benefit from very good social benefits and a pension fund solution with BVK that is well above the legal minimum. Even in the event of illness or accident, you are very well protected as a KSW employee.;
• Your health is important to us. Benefit from discounts on fitness subscriptions, internal training and courses as well as discounts in pharmacies and selected health insurance companies.;
• Family and career can be easily combined with us. The La Luna daycare center with generous opening hours is located right next to the KSW. In addition, the KSW supports you financially - depending on your income - with the crèche costs.;
• There is also something to discover outside of work: Thanks to our cooperation with cultural partners in Winterthur and the surrounding area, you will regularly benefit from discounts for concerts and theatre performances.

Key data

• Professional field: Various professions
• Area: Care and Residence
• Workload: 80-100%

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