Nurse Practitioner FACT

Are you an enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who loves working in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment where addiction care, complexity, and recovery converge? At our FACT department in Utrecht, you will get the space to truly make a difference for clients with severe addiction problems.

As a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and lead practitioner within the FACT team, you are a crucial link in the care of our clients. You offer intensive, recovery-oriented care to people in need of diagnostics and stabilization, while supporting them through a vulnerable phase of their recovery. If desired, you also support the team in providing palliative care. You combine clinical expertise with lead practitioner responsibilities, thereby contributing to high-quality, person-centered care. Together with a dedicated team, you work towards excellent treatment.

Your responsibilities

• You are the lead practitioner within the treatment.
• You perform intakes, and conduct physical and psychiatric examinations.
• You independently carry out (medicinal) treatments and crisis interventions.
• You have a consulting role towards patients, GPs, hospitals, and colleagues.
• You are responsible for reporting, documentation, and handover to the multidisciplinary team.
• You contribute to quality of care projects and (scientific) research.
• You promote and share your expertise through lectures, publications, thematic meetings, and further training.

About FACT

FACT stands for Flexible Assertive Community Treatment. The FACT team offers integrated, recovery-supporting treatment and guidance to clients with severe addiction problems and additional psychiatric and social issues. Within our treatment, we utilize the CRA methodology (Community Reinforcement Approach), a proven effective approach that focuses on strengthening positive behaviors and improving quality of life. We work as much as possible within the client's own living environment, together with loved ones and chain partners, to promote recovery or stabilization.

Our multidisciplinary team

In your daily work within the FACT team, you work closely with various professionals. For example, you consult regularly with the psychiatrist and the addiction physician to coordinate treatment policy and ensure the best care for the client. You share insights and experiences with (GZ-)psychologists, working together on diagnostics and treatment. The peer support specialist brings a unique perspective and supports the team by emphasizing the perspective of recovery and personal strength. Additionally, a chaplain is involved who helps clients with existential and philosophical questions. You work together with nurses and group workers, who provide daily guidance and support. Finally, you have contact with doctors in training to become specialists (A(N)IOS) and nurse practitioners in training (VIO), with whom you exchange knowledge and contribute to their development within the field.

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

We would love to receive your application when you:

• You are a BIG-registered Nurse Specialist, with a Mental Health (GGZ) specialization, and have an affinity with the target group.
• You find it important to contribute to the setup and implementation of policy and the further development of the treatment offering;
• You have an affinity with addiction care and addiction psychiatry (experience is a plus).
• You are clinically curious, decisive, and able to maintain an overview under pressure
• You have a drive to offer the most appropriate care together with your team;
• You enjoy coaching and guiding colleagues.

A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is a fixed part of our application procedure, so that together we ensure a safe and reliable working environment.