Community Nurse Geriatric Psychiatry

No two days are the same. One appointment is in a house on the canal, the next in an apartment in the middle of the Jordaan. Between your visits, you cycle through the center of Amsterdam. But the best part of your route? Those are the conversations you have. As a community practitioner in geriatric psychiatry, you are close by when it is needed and often make a big difference with small steps.

What will you do?
As a community nurse for the elderly at Arkin, you are responsible for your own caseload of clients. Most clients are referred by the GP for diagnostics and treatment within geriatric psychiatry.

Together with the client, relatives, and colleagues, you draw up a personalized treatment plan. Often there is complex psychiatric pathology involved, sometimes combined with somatic complaints, making customization important.

You help clients and their relatives to deal as well as possible with limitations and work on improving the quality of life for the elderly.

Working at Arkin Elderly
Arkin Elderly within the GGZ, where you offer intensive care to clients with complex psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline. You provide structure and safety in the department and switch continuously between guidance, care, and acting in crisis situations.

Together with practitioners and colleagues, you work closely on appropriate care, while simultaneously receiving the space to further develop yourself within the GGZ.

Arkin Elderly is one of the 11 specialisms of Arkin. Together, we are the expert in the field of psychiatry and addiction care. Together, we advocate for the mental resilience of our clients.

• Observing, identifying, and reporting the progress of clients
• Providing psycho-education to clients and their relatives
• Supporting pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy
• Performing co-treatments within a multidisciplinary team
• Guiding clients and their environment during recovery or when dealing with permanent psychiatric symptoms

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

What do you bring?
We are looking for a committed healthcare professional who can work independently and collaborate well within a team.

You possess:

• A HBO diploma in Nursing with BIG registration;
• Experience in GGZ, psychiatry, or geriatric psychiatry;
• The ability to reflect well on yourself and the dynamics of community work;
• Good communication skills towards clients, relatives, and colleagues.

Also interesting:
Are you an SPV, do you have a comparable HBO education (for example HBO-SPH) or a university degree in a related field? Even then, we would love to meet you.

Providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is a fixed part of our application procedure

Want to know more about this vacancy?
Do you want to work in a community team within geriatric psychiatry and truly make a difference for the elderly in Amsterdam? Then we look forward to your response. Feel free to contact Mignon Hoogenraad via 06-15880378 if you have any substantive questions. Questions about the application procedure can be directed to Malou Koopmans 06-21168989.

This vacancy is open both internally and externally. Internal priority candidates take precedence in the procedure.

You can respond as long as the vacancy is online. Once we have welcomed a new colleague, the vacancy will be closed.

We prefer to look for new colleagues ourselves; we find that much more personal. Therefore, recruitment agencies are not appreciated.