Rehabilitation & Recovery Nurse in the Netherlands

On the Rehabilitation & Recovery ward, you provide care 'with your hands behind your back'. Not literally, of course, but you help clients step by step on their way to recovery and independence. After surgery, an accident, or hospitalization, they work here on their self-reliance so they can return home.

Your focus is on recovery. Together with the client, you look at what is needed to be able to return home and work towards personal goals. You primarily work evenings and nights, playing an important role in the recovery process during those times.

Work is carried out in a goal-oriented manner using care pathways. You support ADL activities and personal care, but primarily stimulate clients to do as much as possible themselves. You guide, coach, and practice together, always with an eye for what someone is still able to do.

On the ward, you see many different clinical pictures, including CVA, elective orthopedics, and trauma. In a rehabilitation trajectory averaging 3 to 10 weeks, you truly build a bond with clients. And the best part? You see people grow. Sometimes clients even go home fitter and stronger than before their admission.

Additionally:

• you provide nursing care and support to clients;
• you contribute to the care plan and report on progress;
• you provide clients with the correct guidance and information;
• you are a nursing point of contact for colleagues;
• you perform risky and reserved medical procedures.

Short-term care is offered within Rehabilitation & Recovery at the Gasthuis. The target group is diverse: from clients with elective orthopedics and trauma to oncology, COPD, heart failure, and NAH, with a specialization in CVA. The department is fully developing and is working towards a strong therapeutic climate, in which the client and healthcare professional collaborate optimally towards recovery and returning home.

Our ambition? To grow into an expertise center in geriatric rehabilitation care.

Within Rehabilitation & Recovery Gorinchem, you work together with about 60 dedicated colleagues. Think of care providers IG, nurses, and care managers, but also occupational therapists, physiotherapists, doctors, and physician assistants. Together you work towards the same goal: supporting the client as well as possible in his or her recovery.

You will join a team that communicates clearly, works well together, and gives each other feedback in a respectful manner. And just as importantly: we also just have a very pleasant time together. Where possible, we make time for fun outings and moments together.

The clients you work with have often experienced something unpleasant. That is no small matter, and recovery will not always be easy. Together with you, they will go through it. You will take on the challenge. You see everything more positively, and you show that too! You coach, motivate, give compliments, and bring in humor. You have the patience to give the client the space and time needed to try it themselves. And if things in daily life are no longer so obvious for the client to perform themselves? Then you think along with practical solutions and aids to make it easier.

• You are a BIG-registered nurse.
• Ideally, you have experience in geriatric rehabilitation.
• You are vaccinated against Hepatitis B, or are willing to be.

We trust that you are good at what you do. This is what you get in return from us.

• You sign an on-call agreement.

For information about this position, please contact the head of the Rehabilitation and Recovery department, Lesley Vonk at 06 16 13 88 28. Call or WhatsApp Cato van den Berg (recruiter) with questions about the application procedure via 06 26 00 92 58.