MBO Nurse Mental Healthcare Geriatric Clinic

Do you want to work as an MBO nurse with elderly people with complex psychiatric problems, without the atmosphere of a nursing home?

You combine nursing care with intensive psychological support, contribute your thoughts to complex cases, and work every day towards recovery. Does that appeal to you? Then we would love to meet you.

What will you be doing?
As an MBO nurse at our Arkin Geriatric Clinic, you provide nursing care as well as psychological support to elderly people with complex psychiatric and somatic problems. You work with clients who are temporarily admitted for intensive, recovery-oriented treatment. Together with a multidisciplinary team, you help them work step by step towards recovery and a safe return home or an appropriate follow-up location.

Your responsibilities

• You provide nursing care and perform nursing technical procedures;
• Observing, signaling, and analyzing changes in behavior and health;
• You guide and support clients during their treatment and recovery;
• Actively contributing ideas regarding diagnostics, treatment plans, and complex cases;
• You motivate clients and contribute to activities that stimulate recovery and independence;
• Intensive collaboration in a multidisciplinary team where we work together on individual admission goals;
• You hold daily conversations with clients, where your communication is just as important as the care you provide.

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

• With 11 specialties at various locations, Arkin also offers many long-term possibilities for your professional development and personal growth. For this, we have a wide range of training;

What do you bring?
You are a committed and connecting nurse who gains energy from collaborating and providing the best possible care for clients. You know how important coordination, open communication, and collegial support are within a multidisciplinary treatment team. Additionally, you are patient, flexible, and feel at home in an environment where no two days are the same.

In addition, you possess:

• An MBO diploma in Nursing;
• A valid BIG registration;
• Preferably at least 2 years of work experience within elderly care and/or mental healthcare;
• Good communicative and social skills;
• A proactive and team-oriented attitude;
• Affinity with recovery-oriented care and working with elderly people with complex psychiatric and somatic problems;
• The ability to work together with colleagues, clients, and loved ones towards appropriate treatment goals and recovery.

Providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is part of the appointment procedure.

Want to know more about this vacancy?
Apply directly and make a difference as a nurse in elderly mental healthcare. Do you want to know more about the vacancy? Contact one of our Operations Managers: Caroline van der Walle (06-11180935) or Veronique Snelder (06-29628675). Do you have questions about the procedure? Then contact recruiter Malou Koopmans - 06 21 16 89 89 or email malou.koopmans@arkin.nl.

The 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.

At Arkin, we embrace diversity and strive for an inclusive culture in which we bring out the best in each other. Read more about our vision on D&I under 'about us'.

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