Healthcare Assistant (Huntington's disease) in Amsterdam

As a healthcare assistant, you will be working on the Huntington department. People with a progressive and complex brain disorder live here. Together with your colleagues, you support the residents with their daily care. You (together with the resident, loved ones, the care team, and the treatment team) draw up the support plan and follow this plan regarding daily care, medication intake, and nursing technical procedures.

With us, you do more than just your daily work; you become part of an ambitious Regional Expertise Center (REC). We are a place where knowledge comes together and where we set the standard for the future. We do this not alone, but in close cooperation with the national network and even at an international level via the European Huntington Disease Network (EHDN).

Your role in our expertise center:

• Sharing and retrieving knowledge: You actively contribute to national and international networks and bring new insights back to the workplace.
• Quality is our priority: We see periodic visitations as a joint project: a moment where we proudly show what we have to offer and where we can further improve ourselves.
• Room for your initiative: We love people who think along. Do you have an idea to improve our care or processes? Please do! We value a proactive attitude and give you the space to take charge of your own professional development.

On this department, the focus lies less on taking over care and more on guiding clients. Every person is unique and every phase of the disease requires a different approach. Therefore, you always take personal wishes and needs into account. You are present at tripartite consultations with loved ones and determine together with the resident what the day looks like.

In addition to your work on the department, you will have the opportunity to work in day treatment. Here, you help clients who still live at home to stay active by cooking together, walking, or having coffee.

You are available for all shifts, including day, night, and evening. You work 8-hour shifts.

At residential care center Willem Drees - Oostpoort, fun and working together in a good atmosphere are paramount. We work in small, self-organizing teams, where everyone has their own area of focus in addition to general care tasks. Willem Drees - Oostpoort has modern and spacious care apartments for people who can no longer live independently due to illness, disability, or old age. People with Huntington's disease also live with us, and there is the Huntington outpatient clinic for this target group, for clients living at home.

Working at Amstelring means good employment conditions
and nice extras. What you receive includes:

• Salary according to the CAO VVT: the aforementioned salary is based on full-time (36 hours) and is dependent on diploma and experience.
• On top of your salary: 8% holiday allowance, 8.33% end-of-year bonus, and a bonus for referring new colleagues
• Discounts on, among other things, your new bicycle, your gym membership, day trips, concerts, and (theater) performances
• For young Amstelringers there is: Jong Amstelring
  a friendly group of colleagues who regularly meet up for professional, sporting, and social activities

As an Amstelringer at Willem Drees - Oostpoort, you also benefit from:

• Within walking distance of Muiderpoort station
• Free parking (limited) in the garage under the building
• Close to the bustling Oostpoort shopping center

To be able to work on our Huntington department, we find it important that you are eager to learn and creative. You are open to learning new things, because this disease requires a specific approach. Furthermore, you have:

• A diploma as a healthcare assistant (mbo level 3).
• Patience and good empathy: you understand that communication sometimes takes longer or proceeds differently.
• A healthy dose of ambition to deepen your knowledge in this specialty.
• An eager-to-learn attitude: you want to learn everything about Huntington's disease and share this knowledge with others. It is not mandatory to already have experience with Huntington's disease; we are happy to broaden your knowledge.
• Click 'Apply' and leave your details with us. If there are sufficient suitable responses before the closing date (see date at the top of the vacancy), we will close the vacancy earlier.
• Would you like more information or do you have questions? Please contact Patrick Liesdek (care coordinator): pliesdek@amstelring.nl or contact our recruiter: Nadine Terschegget via nterschegget@amstelring.nl or 0634386404.
• Is this not quite the job you are looking for, but are you curious about other possibilities within Amstelring? Then feel free to contact the recruiter for this vacancy; you can find the contact details further down on this page. Or email werkenbij@amstelring.nl. We are happy to think along with you!

We prefer to recruit new colleagues ourselves. We therefore have no interest in recruitment and selection agencies and will not respond to offers or proposals for collaboration.