Nurse Practitioner Youth in the Netherlands

• a varied and meaningful job in a professional and pleasant working environment where your input is valued;
• a one-year contract with a view to permanent employment for 24-36 hours per week;
• a salary between € 5294,- and € 6918,- (FWG 65), depending on education and experience based on a 36-hour work week;
• excellent employment conditions in accordance with the GGZ collective labor agreement, with all kinds of nice extras. Click here for more information about our employment conditions.

Youz, specialist care for youth and family, is looking for a nurse practitioner for the Sittard location.

Are you the nurse practitioner who enjoys working with young people and their parents with complex psychiatric issues? Do you want to contribute to appropriate treatments through your nurse practitioner expertise? Then read on.

You will work at Youz Limburg, where you treat children, adolescents, and young adults aged 6 to 23 with psychological and/or psychiatric complaints in various areas of life, such as at home, at school, and in contact with peers. From a systemic perspective, you involve both the client and the family in diagnostics and treatment.

As a nurse practitioner, you fulfill an independent and clinically responsible role within the multidisciplinary team. You combine nursing and medical expertise and look at the client as a whole. Your duties include:

• conducting intake interviews, performing psychiatric diagnostics, and establishing treatment indications;
• indicating, coordinating, and independently carrying out treatments, including pharmacotherapeutic treatments;
• being involved in medication policy, medication evaluations, and monitoring treatment results;
• participating in multidisciplinary consultations and contributing to the treatment policy from your expertise;
• actively thinking along about the quality and further development of care and contributing to the promotion of expertise within the team.
• You work closely with various disciplines and have an eye for the connection between psychiatric issues, the development of the young person, and the family situation.

We are looking for a BIG-registered mental health nurse practitioner who can work independently, enjoys collaborating, and has an affinity for child and adolescent psychiatry.