Head of Neurology Department

• From inpatient care to day treatment: you can strengthen the collaboration throughout the entire patient care pathway.
• Lead via three team leaders and help them grow in their roles.
• Collaborate with a dedicated medical staff on better care pathways and the further development of the department.
• Make staff shortages a concrete topic of discussion and work on solutions, such as the deployment of nursing assistants alongside nurses.
• Build upon specialist expertise within the MS Center and the Parkinson's Point.

As Head of Neurology Department, you ensure that teams, people, and processes align well. You are responsible for the Neurology inpatient clinic, the Neurology and Neurosurgery outpatient clinics, and the Clinical Neurophysiology (CNF) functional department, where examinations of the functioning of the nervous system take place. You connect the clinic, day treatment, outpatient clinics, and CNF, so that patients can rely on cohesive care.

You directly manage three team leaders. With a coaching approach, you help them with personnel issues, team development, and strengthening nursing leadership. You provide space to make decisions independently and offer direction when necessary. Additionally, you share the management of four nurse practitioners and two physician assistants. Indirectly, you are responsible for approximately 115 employees, totaling about 90 FTE.

In this role, clinical content, leadership, and operations come together daily:

• Together with the medical staff, you determine what is needed to further develop care. You work with highly educated professionals who clearly express their viewpoints. You make interests discussable and reach agreements that teams can implement in practice.
• During changes in care, you bring team leaders and professionals along. Think of the further development of care pathways and reorganizing work differently in response to staff shortages.
• Regarding production, staffing, and quality, you maintain an overview. You align staffing deployment with care demand, discuss results, and adjust when the continuity or quality of care requires it.
• Within the clinic, you work on an appropriate division of tasks and increased job satisfaction. For example, you guide the further rollout of the pilot in which nursing assistants relieve nurses in the care of patients waiting for follow-up care.

You work intensively with medical specialists, fellow department heads, paramedics, and support services. In doing so, you translate the hospital's course into achievable choices for the department. You take different interests into account and know when coordination is needed to move forward.

The Neurology department has a strong regional function and offers care to patients with various neurological conditions, including MS and Parkinson's. Outpatient neurosurgical care also falls within the care cluster. Much specialist expertise comes together with the MS Center and the Parkinson's Point.

You work in a top-clinical teaching hospital, where patient care, education, and research are interconnected. Within the department, lines are short and there is a strong desire to continue improving care. The collaboration between nursing teams, medical specialists, and other disciplines forms the basis for this.

• A salary between € 4,824 - € 7,269 gross per month (FWG scale 65 Hospitals Collective Labor Agreement), based on 36 hours per week. We will tailor your salary to your education and work experience.
• A one-year contract for 36 hours per week , with a view to permanent employment .
• 8.33% end-of-year bonus in December and 8.33% holiday allowance.
• A pension scheme with PFZW, in which St. Antonius pays 50% of the pension premium.
• Annually 57 hours Personal Life Phase Budget for a 36-hour work week, which you can use in a way that suits your life stage.
• Tax benefits via our Flexible Benefits System. With this, you can use part of your gross salary for, for example, a bicycle, fitness and sports, study costs, extra travel expenses, or a device.
• Plenty of room to develop professionally and personally via our extensive learning platform with live training and e-learnings.
• Through Epassi, Benefits at Work, and Tickets for Good, you get access to activities, workshops, events, and cultural outings, often for only the administrative costs.

You understand what nursing teams need to provide good care and help team leaders further develop their leadership. In conversations with the medical staff, you bring together the perspectives of employees, patients, and operations. You listen, ask questions, and make it clear which choices are necessary.

You also understand how decision-making works in a top-clinical hospital. You recognize different interests, carefully choose the moment to discuss topics, and involve the right people. In this way, you make changes executable for the teams that will implement them.

At a minimum, you bring:

• A HBO (higher professional education) or WO (university) degree, supplemented by a management qualification.
• Extensive leadership experience in a hospital or complex healthcare organization.
• Experience in managing and developing nursing leadership, for example as a head of a nursing department.
• Knowledge of healthcare logistics and operations, with experience in managing production, staffing, and quality.
• Experience in guiding change processes and improving work processes.

Nice to have

• Experience in coaching team leaders.
• Familiarity with the administrative and professional relationships within a top-clinical teaching hospital.
• Experience in improving care pathways across multiple teams or departments.

At St. Antonius, you work on (highly) complex care with your heart in the right place. We are a top-clinical teaching hospital where patient care, education, and research go hand in hand. Thanks to our size, we make a real impact, but remain agile and personal.

Our clinical priorities are heart & vascular, lungs, and cancer. Additionally, we are one of the leaders in the Netherlands in the field of value-based care. This means that we do not only look at what is medically possible, but especially at what truly makes a difference for the individual patient. By structurally measuring the most important outcomes and learning together, also with the other Santeon hospitals, we make care a little bit better every day. With us, every employee, including you, makes a difference for the patient.

As Head of Neurology Department, do you want to strengthen the collaboration and provide direction to the further development of our care? Send your application no later than December 4th via the application button.

Want to know more about the position? Call Ramona Stui, business manager of the Reflective unit, at 06-52743681. She will be happy to answer your questions.

An assessment may be part of the procedure.

A Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) is mandatory for all positions within the St. Antonius Hospital.