Flex Nurse Medical Psychiatric Unit

• Varied work with different patient groups, from psychiatric crisis care to intensive somatic support.
• More control over when and where you work, matching your availability and experience.
• Even as a flex nurse, you will receive a carefully tailored induction period, a fixed buddy, and access to training and development opportunities.

As a flex nurse on our Medical Psychiatric Units in Utrecht, you care for patients who need both psychiatric and somatic support. Think of patients with psychosis, severe depression, eating disorders, or neuropsychiatric conditions. In addition to psychiatric guidance, you provide help with daily care, administer medication via an IV, provide stoma care, or support complex diagnostics.

Depending on the chosen flex form, you will work on the basis of an on-call contract or be deployed across multiple MPU units. We will discuss together which form best fits your availability, experience, and preferences.

During every shift, you work closely with psychiatrists, physician assistants, psychologists, sociotherapists, nurses, and occupational therapists. You quickly integrate into the team, map out the care needs of patients, and work together with your colleagues to ensure safe and appropriate treatment.

Our department is responsible for psychiatric emergency reception in the region twice a week. In the evening and on weekends, you coordinate unplanned admissions together with your colleagues. In doing so, you maintain an overview, recognize changes in a patient's condition, and can switch gears quickly when the situation demands it.

The various units and patient groups make the work varied. During one shift, the emphasis lies on psychiatric crisis care, while on another unit, you provide more somatic nursing care. In this way, you broaden your experience within both fields.

For us, flexible working does not mean that you start on a ward without preparation. We carefully tailor your induction period to your experience and to the units where you will be working. During the first weeks, you will work extra hours to get to know our way of working, the patient groups, and the hospital at a relaxed pace. A fixed buddy helps you find your way.

Do you come from psychiatry and want to deepen your knowledge of somatic care? Or do you have hospital experience and want to learn more about psychiatry? In both cases, we help you to connect both fields.

Once you are well-trained, you can continue to develop. For example, via the hospital psychiatry training, a training within High & Intensive Care, participation in project groups, or a role as a managing nurse.

Our department consists of four units, each with its own patient group and dynamics.

• MPU A: a dynamic ward for moderately intensive somatic and psychiatric care, where recovery and return to daily life are central. The ward is open during the day and has an intensive ward program.
• MPU B: on this closed unit, the emphasis lies on more intensive somatic care. Here, you treat, among others, patients with depression, neuropsychiatric conditions, or eating disorders, and patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy.
• MPU C: this unit focuses on patients in crisis, for example due to psychosis, severe depression, mania, or catatonia. More acute and often more complex psychiatric patients stay here. The psychiatric intensive care and the extra-secure room are also located on this unit.
• Mother-Baby-Unit: here we care for mothers with psychological complaints after childbirth and their babies. In doing so, we work according to the Infant Mental Health methodology, focused on the development and the relationship between parent and child.

In the coming years, St. Antonius is focusing more and more on the combination of medical and psychiatric care. Therefore, there is space for new flex colleagues on various units. We will coordinate your deployment on one or more units based on your experience and the agreements within your flex contract.

• Salary up to a maximum of € 4,914.- gross per month (FWG scale 50 Cao Hospitals) based on a 36-hour work week, depending on your education and work experience.
• A flex contract that matches your availability and preferences. Think of working via an on-call contract, deployment on multiple units, or exclusively night shifts;
• A lot of control over your schedule, where we discuss together which shifts and deployment forms suit your situation;
• A 13th month, an attractive pension scheme, and a time budget to use for a good work-life balance
• Tax benefits and discounts on, among other things, bicycles, sports, electronics, and cultural outings
• Training and development opportunities to deepen your (professional) knowledge
• Participation in (sporty) activities and workshops
• As an ANIOS, you receive a personal training budget of €500 per service year that you can use for a course, training, or symposium within the specialty or your area of interest.

• An MBO or HBO diploma in Nursing;
• A valid BIG registration;
• At least one year of experience in a hospital or at least two years of experience within psychiatric care.

Nice to have

• Experience working on different wards or with varying patient groups;
• Knowledge of de-escalating conversation techniques;
• Interest in hospital psychiatry, High & Intensive Care, or a future role as a managing nurse;
• The possibility to work flexibly in different shifts.

Do you come from psychiatry and want to learn more about somatic care? Or does your experience lie in the hospital and does psychiatry appeal to you? Your background forms a valuable basis to further develop yourself within the various MPU units.

Are you doubting whether you fully meet the profile or which flex form suits you? We are happy to think along with you.

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.

Curious about what flexible working at the MPU looks like in practice? You are welcome to meet the team and discuss together which deployment form suits you. To do this, please contact Betsie Wijnmaalen-van Dijk, team leader, via 06 52 74 12 87. You can call or send a WhatsApp message.

Applying directly is also possible, of course. A motivation letter is not mandatory; we would rather meet you personally.