Nurses at the intermediate care unit of the Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics - 60%

Company Description ##

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

Counting nearly 1,500 employees, the Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics (DRG) constitutes a medical hub centered on the elderly person and is distributed across 5 sites: Trois-Chêne, Loëx, Bellerive, Beau-Séjour and Joli-Mont. It manages acute situations, notably thanks to the emergencies of the Hôpital des Trois-Chêne, specific age-related problems, medical rehabilitation and palliative medicine.

Located in the heart of a park on the Belle-Idée estate, the Hôpital des Trois-Chêne welcomes people whose state of health requires hospitalization for acute geriatric care or rehabilitation treatments. The Hospital has a cutting-edge radiology unit as well as an emergency service that can accommodate patients aged 75 and over, excluding life-threatening emergencies.

Job Description ##

In your capacity as a nurse within the intermediate care unit of the Hôpital des Trois-Chêne ("unit 13+"), you ensure, autonomously and/or under medical delegation, the global and personalized management of elderly patients requiring continuous monitoring due to their acute care situation or requiring intensive therapy (cardioversion).

Notably, you provide care for acute geriatric female and male patients with specific equipment (arterial catheter, central venous line-) and exercise increased monitoring (management of non-invasive ventilation, amines). You combine this technicality with multidimensional, relational, social and ethical care.

You evolve within an interprofessional team and coordinate the care services provided to the clientele. You also exercise a supervision and teaching function for people in training and new employees.

Finally, you contribute to the development of the quality of care and lead professional reflection based on the analysis of nursing care practices.

Qualifications ##

You benefit from a Bachelor HES in nursing or an equivalent nursing diploma recognized by the Swiss Red Cross. A complementary certifying training in elderly care is a real asset.

A specialized training in intermediate care is required or must be acquired during employment.

Two years of experience in a hospital setting in an acute care unit is indispensable. Experience in intermediate care as well as in the management of elderly people is strongly recommended.

You possess great rigor as well as a keen sense of organization and priority management, demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and show a marked interest in the follow-up of elderly female and male patients. You also possess perfect adaptation and stress management skills when faced with very acute care situations.

You know how to demonstrate reactivity and are endowed with an excellent capacity to analyze clinical situations.

Thanks to your team spirit and communication skills, you work in interprofessionality to unite all partners around a common vision to develop care projects for the optimal management of patients and their relatives. You appreciate collaboration and multidisciplinary teamwork.

Fluency with IT tools is necessary to successfully carry out this mission, as well as a very good knowledge of the French language.

Additional Information ##

• Place of activity: Hôpital des Trois-Chêne
• Start date: 01.01.2027
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 60%
• Function class: 15 or 16 if specialization
• Contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 19.11.2026
• Information request: M. H. Ait El Hadj, deputy head of care, tel 079 553 98 48

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 indistinctly to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l'emploi.

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