Director of Nursing - 100%

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.

The Nursing Directorate embodies authority in matters of care. Its mission is to guarantee the quality and safety of care within the establishment. In this capacity, the Nursing Directorate has oversight of all care activities (nursing staff and various healthcare professional bodies). To fulfill its mission, it relies on three deputy directorates in charge of transformation in care, professional practices, and interprofessionality.

The Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève are looking for their new Director of Nursing, a strategic role with a direct impact on the quality, innovation, and organization of care in an institution committed to dynamic transformation.

If you wish to join an environment mobilized around major structuring projects: digitalization, augmented intelligence, modernization of infrastructure, and the continuous development of clinical and nursing excellence, please send your CV and cover letter (as a single PDF document) to Page Executive, the firm mandated to accompany the HUG in this recruitment.

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Job Description ##

In this strategic function, you define and lead the institutional care policy to guarantee the quality, safety, and excellence of services within the HUG. As a permanent member of the executive committee, you actively contribute to the strategic orientations of the institution and accompany the transformations necessary for the evolution of the health system.

You develop a clear and mobilizing vision for care, evolve organizational models and professional practices, and ensure coherent and effective care governance in a decentralized environment. In close partnership with the Medical Directorate, departments, and professional sectors, you strengthen interprofessionality, the medico-nursing partnership, and the transversality of care.

Faced with major challenges regarding attractiveness, succession, and the shortage of healthcare professionals, you pilot policies for skill development, training, and leadership, while supporting the academization of care and the emergence of new professional roles, notably advanced nursing practices.

You initiate and lead strategic, innovation, and research projects aimed at the continuous improvement of service quality. You anticipate organizational, technological, and clinical evolutions, while integrating the challenges of the ecological transition into care.

You represent the nursing authority to internal and external bodies, institutional partners, and professional associations. Attentive to political, institutional, and health challenges, you maintain a constructive dialogue with social partners and contribute to the influence of the HUG within regional and national professional and academic networks.

Qualifications ##

You hold a university degree in nursing sciences or health, supplemented by higher-level training in management, leadership, or organizational management. You benefit from confirmed experience in strategic management functions within a large-scale hospital establishment, ideally university-based, and master the issues specific to complex, multidisciplinary, and highly matrixed environments.

You possess solid expertise in care governance as well as proven experience in defining and deploying care policies at an institutional scale. You are capable of evolving organizations while preserving institutional missions and values, and have demonstrated experience in leading large-scale transformations and supporting teams in complex change contexts.

Your organizational management skills are recognized: management of human and financial resources, workload analysis, optimization of organizations, change management, and coordination of multiple stakeholders. Thanks to your capacities for analysis, discernment, and listening, you make informed decisions in constantly evolving environments. You demonstrate consistency between your decisions, your actions, and the values you uphold.

You have demonstrated your ability to develop strong medico-nursing partnerships, based on the complementarity of expertise and the pursuit of common objectives. Recognized for your unifying leadership, you know how to mobilize teams, create buy-in around a common vision, and foster collaboration between stakeholders with sometimes divergent interests.

You master the challenges related to the attractiveness of nursing professions, the retention of employees, talent development, as well as succession planning in a context marked by the shortage of healthcare professionals. You have a marked interest in skill development, training, and the academization of care, and maintain close collaborations with academic and professional partners.

You encourage the development of clinical research, innovation, and prospective approaches. Sensitive to the evolutio