High Intensive Care (HIC) Nurse Amsterdam

Become part of an HIC team that works every day on better care, further professionalization, and development towards HIC certification. At the High Intensive Care unit of De Nieuwe Valerius in Amsterdam, you provide care to clients with severe psychiatric disorders who temporarily require intensive clinical support. Within the HIC, you will be given the space to actively contribute ideas regarding treatment processes, recovery-oriented care, and the further organization of the ward. In this way, you contribute not only to the care of clients but also to the ongoing development of the HIC.

• The High Intensive Care at De Nieuwe Valerius is an acute admission ward with 21 admission places for clients between the ages of 18 and 60 who are in a severe psychiatric crisis. You will work with a diverse client group and a wide range of psychiatric conditions. To support clients as effectively as possible, we utilize various treatment methodologies, including MBT, ECT, various conversation techniques, and medicinal treatment.

• You will join a department that is in full development. In addition to direct patient care, you will contribute ideas regarding treatment processes, working methods, and the further organization of the HIC. With this, you contribute not only to the care of clients but also to the development of the ward.

• Together with clients, loved ones, and outpatient practitioners, you work on restoring stability and preventing long-term admissions. The HIC model is central to this. Even when an admission is not voluntary, we strive to limit coercion and compulsion as much as possible.

• The ward features an ICU/EBK, ensuring that clients who temporarily require more intensive guidance can also receive appropriate care. In doing so, you will work closely with nurses, psychiatrists, physicians, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and experts by experience.

What will you do as a High Intensive Care Nurse in Amsterdam?

• As a nurse on the HIC, you will work within a close-knit team in a rapidly changing ward environment. A high turnover of clients places great demand on your professional nursing skills. Clinical reasoning, decisiveness, and strong communication skills make you suitable for this very interesting workplace.

• On the HIC, we work on breaking and stabilizing severe psychiatric crises, with the goal of enabling clients to participate in society to their full capacity as quickly as possible.

• You draw up guidance plans, implement them, evaluate them, and adjust them if necessary. You identify crisis situations and offer support during interventions. You coordinate care with the team of practitioners and coordinate this in consultation with the client and their loved ones.

• You draw up guidance plans, implement them, and adjust them where necessary. You identify crisis situations, support interventions, and coordinate care with practitioners, clients, and loved ones. Additionally, using clinical reasoning, you monitor the somatic health of clients, for example, regarding ECT treatments.

• You also have an active role in providing guidance and support to other team members, such as interns and students.

• You will be challenged to think proactively about developments in the field of care provision at the HIC.

• You have completed an mbo-4 nursing or hbo nursing education.

• A very advantageous parking arrangement directly below your workplace.

• The position is scaled in FWG 45/50 cao ggz.

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You can respond until December 18, 2026. Do not wait: for suitable candidates, we plan interviews during the duration of the vacancy. It is therefore possible that you will be invited for an introduction before the closing date.