Deputy Ward Manager

The Clienia Group is one of the largest private providers of psychiatric services in Switzerland. With over 20 locations – including the private clinics Clienia Littenheid and Clienia Schlössli as well as the gerontopsychiatric offering of Clienia Bergheim – it offers a diverse spectrum of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment methods in outpatient, day-clinic, and inpatient settings. The group employs around 1800 employees and achieved a turnover of CHF 240 Mio. in 2025.

For the acute ward T2 with a treatment focus on affective disorders, we are looking for, immediately or by arrangement, a

Deputy Ward Manager

80 - 100%

T2, acute ward with treatment focus on affective disorders

The acute ward T2 addresses people in psychiatric exceptional situations who are dependent on immediate help. We offer these people professional support. We provide help in the acute phase. This includes psychiatric emergency care with careful diagnostics, appropriate treatment, and rapid clarification of the social situation. The goals of treatment are the reconstruction of everyday skills, the development of possible coping strategies, and the stabilization of self-esteem.

The ward is generally operated as an open ward and implements the Safewards model. We look forward to you participating with your ideas.

Your tasks

Flexibility and enjoyment of variety are central points. Because that is exactly what working in acute psychiatry means.

If this applies to you, here are some of the most important tasks:

• supporting the ward management in their leadership tasks based on a maturity level model / career model
• representing the ward management in their absence
• participation in working groups and projects
• ensuring cooperative interdisciplinary cooperation
• participation in the nursing and care of patients

Your profile

Professional competence, good organizational skills, service orientation, and humor are the most important qualities you must bring. With these qualities, we achieve the best results for our patients, as well as for satisfaction within the team.

Are you an open, communicative, and present personality and do you like to face complex situations with commitment and sensitivity? Do you like to move in a dynamic and lively everyday life and can you keep an overview even in rapidly changing situations?

Do you have a degree as a nursing professional with professional experience and are you interested in getting a foothold in the field of management? Then you are the person we are looking for!

Our offer

• Innovative employer with strong interprofessional cooperation
• very good development opportunities with generous support in further and continuing education
• various benefits (with Reka-Checks, health promotion offers, selected leisure activities, and online shops)
• 5 weeks of vacation, from the age of 50, 27 days, and from the age of 60, 32 days
• excellent catering options at very fair prices and much more...

We will be happy to present our employee benefits in a job interview.

Do you feel addressed? Further information will be gladly provided by Dusko Milojcic, Ward Manager, Tel. or Thomas Sutter, Head of Nursing, Tel: .

We look forward to your application via the application tool.

Dossiers from recruitment agencies will not be considered for this position.

Work location

Clienia Schlössli AG
Privatklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Schlösslistrasse 8
CH-8618 Oetwil am See
Tel.

Your contact person

Thomas Sutter

Head of Nursing
Tel.

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