Psychiatric Nurse Night Shift

• During the night, you will have all the attention for patients with complex psychiatric and physical care needs.
• You work independently, but can always rely on experienced colleagues within the hospital.
• Thanks to an extensive onboarding period and a dedicated buddy, you will get to know the department calmly and thoroughly.
• Choose fixed night shifts or discuss a flexible contract that suits your situation.
• Deepen your knowledge of hospital psychiatry through training, a project group, or other development opportunities.

As a psychiatric nurse in the night shift, you ensure peace, safety, and continuity at our Medical Psychiatric Unit in Utrecht. You guide and care for patients with diverse clinical pictures, such as psychosis, severe depression, eating disorders, or physical conditions in combination with psychiatric issues.

During the night, you maintain a good overview of how patients are doing. You notice changes in behavior or health, provide structure, and set clear boundaries when necessary. In doing so, you look beyond the diagnosis: you pay attention to the patient's entire story.

Your duties include

• guiding and caring for patients during the night;
• observing their mental and physical condition;
• identifying changes and acting appropriately in unexpected situations;
• ensuring a calm, safe, and predictable environment;
• performing and recording nursing actions;
• checking and replenishing supplies and performing administrative tasks;
• coordinating with colleagues from other units, the relief service, and the evening, night, and weekend supervisors.

Depending on the unit and the level of care, you work alone or together with a colleague. In total, five nurses and caregivers are present at night. Your shift runs from 11:00 PM to 7:45 AM.

You can be scheduled on different units. Do you have a preference for a certain patient group or unit? We will try to take that into account in the planning.

During the first few weeks, you will work extra hours so that you can get to know the patients, the way of working, and the various units well. A dedicated buddy and the introduction program will assist you with this. Once you are onboarded, you will be given space to further develop yourself. Think of training in hospital psychiatry or participating in a project group. This allows you to continue growing in your profession and contribute to the development of our care.

You will work at the Medical Psychiatric Unit of the St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht. Here, patients are treated who require both psychiatric and physical care. The department consists of four units, each with its own dynamic:

• MPU A: A dynamic department with moderately intensive somatic and psychiatric care, where resocialization and intensive therapy programs are central.
• MPU B: On this unit, the focus is more on somatic care, where patients with depression, neuropsychiatry, ECT patients, and patients with an eating disorder are treated.
• MPU C: This unit focuses on patients in crisis with various clinical pictures such as psychosis, (severe) depression, mania, or catatonia. This department also includes an ICU and High Dependency Unit (EBK).
• Mother-Baby Unit (MBU): Here we care for mothers with postpartum issues and their babies according to the IMH system. As a nurse in the night shift, it is rare that you will be asked to work on this department. This is because, on weekday nights, there are caregivers who take charge of baby care.

You will join a close-knit and committed team. You work together with psychiatrists, physician assistants, psychologists, sociotherapists, nurses, and occupational therapists. Colleagues are ready to help one another and seek each other out when a situation requires it.

In the coming years, St. Antonius is focusing more and more on the combination of medical and psychiatric care. This makes it a workplace where there is much to learn and develop.

Would you like to get acquainted with the work and your future colleagues beforehand? Then visit werkenbijantonius.nl/mpu.

• 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.
• Annual contract for 24 hours per week, with a view to permanent employment
• 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 (sporting) activities and workshops

You feel at home in a working environment where psychiatric and physical care converge. During the night, you remain calm and alert, you dare to make decisions independently, and you call for help in good time. With your attention and professional eye, you help patients feel safe and seen.

At a minimum, you bring:

• A completed mbo or hbo degree in Nursing.
• A valid registration in the BIG register.
• At least two years of work experience as a nurse and experience within psychiatry, hospital psychiatry, or acute care.
• Affinity with both psychiatric and physical care.
• The ability to act independently and react adequately in acute or unexpected situations.

Nice to have

• You can recognize changes in behavior and health in a timely manner and make them discussable.
• Reflecting on your own actions and learning from feedback is important to you.
• Experience in guiding patients who have a need for structure and clear boundaries.

Do you doubt whether you fully meet the profile? Please feel free to contact us. 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.

Would you first like to experience if the department suits you? You are very welcome to meet the team and take a look at the department. To do this, please contact Sandra Metzelaar, one of our team leaders, via 0651586185. Calling or sending a WhatsApp message are both fine.

Prefer to apply directly? A motivation letter is not required. Submit your CV via the application button. We would love to meet you personally.

The vacancy is open until October 16th.