Nurse (Mental Healthcare) in Amsterdam

Together with your colleagues, you are there for the residents of the mental healthcare department. You not only support them with daily care, but place emphasis on stabilization and psychosocial guidance. You work with a unique target group: former homeless and rough sleepers with complex psychiatric disorders and/or addiction issues.

Because of this, your tasks are broader than those of a regular nurse:

• Specific tasks/Issues: You are the linchpin in creating structure, providing long-term guidance for complex behavioral issues, and, if necessary, providing crisis intervention. Your focus lies on establishing and maintaining contact and motivating residents.
• Regular tasks: The wishes and needs of residents are central, with much attention to autonomy, quality of life, pleasant living, freedom, and meaning. You draw up the support plan (in consultation with colleagues, the resident, loved ones, and, for example, the doctor). You follow this plan regarding daily care, well-being, medication intake, and performing nursing technical procedures.

In addition to being a dedicated nurse, you are a good conversation partner for colleagues from other disciplines. Because you know the residents well, you immediately notice changes in their health or behavior.

Your schedule and working hours are flexible. In consultation, we determine your working hours to fit your life.

Work experience in mental healthcare is not a requirement to work here. Naturally, you must have an affinity for it; you can then follow the necessary training and courses through us to become even better at your job. And are you doubting whether the mental healthcare department is for you? You are also welcome to shadow for a day (or part of a day) to experience it.

As a nurse, you notice changes in residents in a timely manner and know how to report what you hear and see well. You are solution-oriented, decisive, and have a sense of responsibility. Additionally, you naturally hold a Nursing diploma (mbo-4).

Do you want to work within a close-knit team in our interesting mental healthcare department? Then we would love to hear from you!