Head of Health Services JVA Thorberg 80-100%

Start of employment:

01.03.2027

Work location:

Krauchthal

<<Execution according to measure>> is our motto at the Justizvollzugsanstalt Thorberg. We execute sanctions for 180 men from over 40 nations in closed detention. Our 140 employees are committed daily to the reintegration of offenders into society, thereby making an important contribution to public safety. In eleven workshops, we lead and promote the inmates according to laboragogic principles. Our programs in the areas of work, therapy, education, sport, and leisure are consistently aimed at risk reduction and the social integration of the admitted persons.

The health service of the JVA is responsible as an outpatient clinic for the professional assessment, triage, counseling, and care of the admitted men in health matters. We are looking for a committed and strong leadership personality for the management of our health service.

Your tasks

• You take over the personnel, professional, organizational, and financial management of the health service with a team of five specialists.
• You actively drive the organizational further development of the health service, question existing processes, and are open to new approaches and innovative solutions.
• Together with your team, you ensure the basic medical care of the inmates. This includes, in particular, the admission assessments, ongoing health care, as well as emergency care.
• You are responsible for the organization and quality assurance of the medical processes, especially medication management, medical documentation, and compliance with applicable hygiene and safety regulations.
• You coordinate the cooperation with doctors, psychotherapeutic specialists, the pharmacist, as well as other external medical service providers and health services of other correctional facilities.
• You promote interdisciplinary cooperation within the JVA Thorberg and participate in the further development of concepts, processes, and projects.
• If required, you work in the operational daily business of the health service and take on on-call duties on a rotational basis.
• You promote the professional and personal development of your employees and ensure personnel deployment and on-call planning.

Your profile

• You have completed nursing training at a tertiary level (HF/FH/Uni) as well as several years of professional experience, ideally in somatic and psychiatric care. A Master's degree in nursing science with the qualification as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is an advantage.
• You bring proven leadership experience and ideally have corresponding leadership training.
• You are a resilient, stable, and communicative personality with pronounced organizational skills and an independent, solution-oriented way of working.
• You know how to lead and promote employees and to make clear decisions even in challenging situations.
• You are interested in working with admitted persons of different cultural backgrounds. Professional handling of closeness and distance is a matter of course for you.
• You enjoy working interdisciplinary and have a high sense of quality and responsibility.
• You are proficient in written and spoken German. French and English skills are an advantage.
• You are experienced in handling digital applications and medical documentation systems.

We offer you

A versatile and responsible leadership task in an extraordinary working environment awaits you. You will have the opportunity to actively help shape and professionally and organizationally develop the health service of the JVA Thorberg. We offer you independent activity with room for maneuver, close interdisciplinary cooperation, as well as demand-oriented internal and external further training opportunities.
Your workplace is located in a historically significant building.

Contact

We look forward to meeting you personally! Send us your application documents online by 15 December 2026. Further information will be gladly provided by: elena.hafner@be.ch, +41 31 636 29 49.

About the Amt für Justizvollzug

The Amt für Justizvollzug (AJV) is responsible, with around 1000 employees within the Sicherheitsdirektion des Kantons Bern (SID), for the open and closed execution of sentences and measures for adults and adolescents. To fulfill this task, the office has four concordat correctional facilities, four regional prisons, the detention station at the Inselspital, the detention management center, as well as probation and execution services at its disposal.

https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html