High Care Detox Nurse

As a nurse, you want to provide good care and truly make a difference to someone. With your medical knowledge, your observational skills, and your personal attention, you can make a difference precisely during difficult moments.

At Jellinek's High Care Detox, people come to stop substance use under professional guidance. This is often a physically and psychologically heavy period. You monitor their health, signal changes, and offer calm and structure. Together with the doctor and your colleagues, you help clients on their way toward the first steps of recovery.

Whether you come from a hospital, mental healthcare (GGZ), community care, or another healthcare environment, your nursing experience is valuable. You can apply your professional knowledge in a new environment and further develop yourself while guiding clients with expertise and attention.

What will you do?
At the High Care Detox in Amsterdam, you guide clients during detoxification. An admission usually lasts five to fourteen days. A lot can happen during that period. One client may have primarily physical complaints, while for another, psychological problems also play a role. Therefore, you look not only at the complaints but also at the person and their situation. Together with the doctor and your colleagues, you tailor the care to what someone needs.

Fikria works as a nurse at the High Care Detox and tells what makes her work special.

'Clients often come in here with a shield, because they are used to others judging them. I want to be there for them, without judging.'

This is what you will do

• You perform nursing checks and monitor the physical and psychological health of clients.
• You signal withdrawal symptoms and changes in behavior in a timely manner. You discuss specifics with the doctor and your colleagues.
• With nursing care and the execution of the treatment plan, you help clients during detoxification. You monitor how they respond to the treatment.
• Calm and structure are important during admission. You provide this, for example, by having breakfast together or taking a walk.
• In motivational conversations, you discuss substance use and recovery. You also explain to clients what they can expect during this process.
• During treatment components such as Safe Group, you guide clients in their recovery. You also discuss how they can proceed after the detox.
• If an acute situation arises, you act quickly and coordinate with the doctor and your colleagues to determine what care is needed.

You work together with nurses and other practitioners on a ward with 22 beds, divided into two groups. On average, there are three to four admissions per day. Because clients need care day and night, you work in day, evening, and night shifts. Through "meesroosteren" (flexible scheduling), you have a lot of influence over the distribution of your shifts.

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

It is also potentially possible to be deployed in other departments within Jellinek. Think, for example, of VADIS, the Medium Care Detox, and the Clinical treatment departments.

What do you bring?
You see the human being behind the addiction and easily make contact with different people. You can motivate clients when they are having a hard time and remain calm when a situation suddenly changes. You work carefully and know when you must consult with the doctor and your colleagues.

So, you do not necessarily need to have experience in mental healthcare or addiction care yet. We find it important that you bring your nursing knowledge, are open to learning, and have attention for the people you guide.

We would love to receive your application if you:

• Have an MBO or HBO nursing diploma.
• Are BIG-registered.
• Are willing to work irregular shifts.

Want to know more about this vacancy?
For more information, you can call or send a message via WhatsApp to our recruiter Thijs van Woudenberg at 06-21550646. He is ready to tell you more and answer any questions.

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.