Team Leader Elderly Mental Healthcare Clinic

• Salary: In accordance with the CAO GGZ in FWG scale 60, between €4,544 and €5,901 gross per month (based on a 36-hour work week, amounts as of July 1, 2026);
• Contract: A one-year contract, followed by a permanent contract upon mutual satisfaction. This position can also be filled on a temporary basis as an independent contractor.
• Extras: Travel allowance, 8.33% holiday allowance and year-end bonus, 166 leave hours + 35 life-phase budget hours, and an annual balance budget of €1,000.
• pension: Accrual at PFZW, 50% contribution by Emergis.
• Development: Access to e-learning modules from Emergis, GoodHabitz, and GGZ Ecademy and other internal training opportunities.

We are looking for a team leader with a heart for mental healthcare. You recognize yourself in the following:

Do you want to lead in a place where you truly make a difference? As a team leader, you connect nursing and treatment and stimulate shared responsibility for the quality and continuity of care. You hold ultimate responsibility for the daily management of the clinic and actively drive quality, safety, and efficiency. Additionally, you play an important role in the further development of the elderly mental healthcare clinic. Read on quickly!

As a team leader, you hold ultimate responsibility for the daily management of the clinic. You drive quality, safety, and efficiency and play an important role in the further development of the elderly mental healthcare clinic.

Elderly mental healthcare is a specialization within mental healthcare that focuses on older adults with serious mental challenges. Usually, this involves people aged 65 and older, but the nature of the complaints is primarily the determining factor. These complaints often consist of a combination of mental and emotional behavioral problems, along with psychosocial disruption and dysfunction, which are regularly reinforced by physical and cognitive changes. All of this takes place in a life stage with its own dynamics and specific stressors.

The elderly mental healthcare clinic is in a development phase moving towards management by one team leader instead of two. This requires a clear design of responsibilities and a solid foundation within the team. Therefore, conscious investments are being made in job differentiation and the optimal utilization of the knowledge and expertise of employees. By defining roles more sharply and deploying talents more effectively, ownership, professionalism, and impact in daily care are strengthened. The team leader plays a central role in this by creating clarity, facilitating development, and supporting the team in this growth. The department is a dynamic clinical working environment where collaboration within a multidisciplinary team is central and where there is room for development, innovation, and professional growth.

At Emergis, you will find not only a position and an environment where you truly make a difference, but also good conditions. We offer you:

Your role consists of:

Leadership & collaboration

• leading a multidisciplinary team of nurses and practitioners and creating a professional and safe working environment;
• conducting performance and appraisal interviews and coaching employees on ownership and professional conduct;
• monitoring team dynamics and psychological safety within the team;
• stimulating shared ownership in the clinical process and strengthening the collaboration between practitioners and nurses;
• making clear agreements regarding task distribution and collaboration and ensuring that treatment decisions are made in a timely and efficient manner.

Operations & organization

• coordinating scheduling and personnel planning, with support from the scheduling administration;
• driving the efficient deployment of employees and resources;
• implementing absenteeism prevention and absenteeism guidance;
• monitoring budgets and reporting on results and bottlenecks, in collaboration with P&O and the financial business partner;
• driving KPIs such as bed occupancy, production agreements, and lead times;
• ultimately responsible for the organization of the care process within the department.

Quality

• ensuring client safety;
• supervising compliance with laws and regulations, including the Wvggz;
• handling incidents and complaints and initiating improvement measures;
• implementing and securing improvements, working methods, and policy agreements;

Development & strategy

• stimulating independence and clinical reasoning among nurses;
• utilizing job differentiation within the team;
• contributing to the development of the clinic and identifying relevant trends within elderly mental healthcare;
• representing the clinic in organization-wide meetings;
• initiating and leading improvement and change processes within care and organizational development.