Operating Room Nurse Manager at 80-100%

Our operating room offers a cutting-edge and high-performance multidisciplinary technical platform with eleven multi-site operating rooms at the La Chaux-de-Fonds and Pourtalès sites. On a daily basis, a dynamic and highly specialized team takes care of patients requiring scheduled or emergency surgical intervention.

Your missions

• Ensure the strategic and operational management of the operating room.
• Manage the human resources of the operating room: operating field, anesthesia, recovery room, and sterilization; by assessing needs, adapting staffing to activity, developing skills (training), and promoting the teams.
• Participate in the development of the operating grid, the distribution of shifts, and the weekly operating program, and ensure daily regulation, in collaboration with local managers and the doctors concerned.
• Guarantee quality and safety in the operating room by deploying risk prevention and treatment procedures, ensuring hygiene and traceability, and evaluating the application of practices.
• Collect and transmit the information necessary for the regulation of activity and correct dysfunctions.
• Drive the objectives and projects of the operating room, in coordination with managers and medical-nursing teams in collaboration with other services, in order to ensure optimal and global care for patients.
• Deploy, update, and enforce the operating room's operating charter, while ensuring the monitoring of operating room activity and performance indicators.

Your profile

• HES nursing diploma (or equivalent CRS-recognized title) with specialization in operating room (IDDO) or anesthesia (EPDES)
• Authorization to practice a health profession in the canton of Neuchâtel
• Federal specialist certificate in hospital management or the willingness to undertake it
• Experience in managing operating room planning
• Significant experience in team management within an operating room

Your skills

• Great flexibility, sense of anticipation, and organization
• Excellent communication, coordination, and negotiation skills
• Sense of institution, equity, listening, rigor, and loyalty
• Spirit of initiative, capacity for decision-making and delegation
• Ability to identify and manage conflict situations
• Openness to change and technological evolutions
• Mastery of aseptic rules and good knowledge of operating room devices/equipment

Additional information

• Place of work: Pourtalès site in Neuchâtel with mobility to the La Chaux-de-Fonds site
• Start date: from 1st November 2026 or to be agreed
• Information: Monsieur Philippe Robin, Interim Department Nurse Manager Operating Room, +41 79 559 45 75