Psychiatric Nurse Early Psychosis

What do we offer you?

• A one-year contract with a view to a permanent contract.
• Classification in salary scale 7M, 8aM: € 3,171 to € 4,492 gross for a full-time employment (depending on education and experience). Additionally, you receive an 8.3% end-of-year bonus. Calculate your net salary here.
• Vacation hours: 194.4 hours per year for a full-time employment and the possibility to save up hours.
• 100% public transport reimbursement. Do you come by walking, cycling, or by car? Then you will receive a reimbursement of €0.21 per km (for the car, a maximum of 40 km one way applies).
• Do you come by bike? Make use of our good bicycle scheme.
• Pension accrual at ABP, of which we pay 70% of the premium.
• Free and unlimited access to training courses, including GoodHabitz, in our learning environment.
• An active staff association and a Young Amsterdam UMC association, both of which organize fun (sporty) activities and events.

At the Early Psychosis department of the Amsterdam UMC, young patients (15 - 30 years old) experiencing their first psychosis are treated and supported. Through an intensive treatment program, we hope to help them recover and get their lives back on track sustainably, thereby reducing the chance of relapse. As a nurse in the Early Psychosis department, you take charge of the entire care process and guide both the patient and their environment from admission to discharge.

• You provide patients with a safe haven and support them in the recovery process.
• You are able to provide tailored care, adjusted to the person, their complaints, and their needs and wishes, always in accordance with their environment.
• You conduct individual and group sessions based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.
• You guide the patient through (medication) treatment, provide information about the treatment and symptoms, and maintain an eye for the individual during this process.
• You are able to apply behavioral therapeutic interventions.
• You stimulate peer support within the group and create space for and use of the patient's own expertise through lived experience.
• You provide group training such as lifestyle training, psycho-education, and the goal group.
• Development into adulthood also holds an important place in the treatment. As a nurse, you have a pedagogical role and the task of guiding these processes carefully and with involvement, hand in hand with the patient.

We expect a new early psychosis nurse to have experience or affinity with psychiatry. You are resilient, stress-resistant, and can handle complex patients. You are particularly attracted to this target group: young adults. You are able to continuously engage in clinical reasoning and are self-reflective in doing so. You enjoy building a therapeutic relationship with patients based on equality, from which you work towards recovery. In addition to contact with the patient, you enjoy investing in the system surrounding the patient, particularly in contact with parents. To be able to work with us: