Team Leader Clinic Psychiatry & Medical Psychology

• Lead where psychiatric and somatic care converge. Your work helps teams provide good care to patients with complex mental and physical conditions.
• Jointly responsible, with room for individual choices. Together with your fellow team leader, you provide direction to the clinic, while you independently manage a portion of the teams.
• Contribute to building a renewed way of working. Help employees to recognize tension in themselves and patients early and to make contact from a place of calm. You will take a leading role in this.
• Influence on the course of the department. As a member of the management team, you contribute ideas regarding the care of tomorrow and translate plans into daily practice.
• Collaboration that goes beyond the hospital. You maintain contacts with regional partners within acute mental health care and strengthen cooperation regarding vulnerable patients.

As team leader of the Clinic Psychiatry & Medical Psychology, you lead nurses and other healthcare professionals. You ensure they can do their jobs well: with clear agreements, appropriate support, and room to develop. Together with your fellow team leader, you are responsible for the entire clinic. Each of you independently manages a portion of the teams.

You combine daily management with long-term improvements. Think of aligning personnel deployment with care demand, guiding changes in a work process, or translating departmental policy into achievable goals for your teams. In doing so, you keep an eye on the quality of patient care, the available resources, and what employees need.

In your role:

• Coach and support your employees in their development and encourage them to take responsibility for their work.
• Align your work processes, personnel deployment, resources, and budgets.
• Translate organizational policy into concrete departmental goals and guide the implementation.
• Lead projects and ensure that improvements become part of the daily way of working.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with regional partners within acute mental health care.

An important development is our way of dealing with tension. Employees are learning to recognize and regulate their own tension and that of patients earlier. You support your teams in applying this. In this way, you help create a treatment environment in which calm contact, the prevention of escalations, and recovery are central.

At the Psychiatry & Medical Psychology department of the St. Antonius Hospital, physical and mental care come together. You work with teams that treat patients within, among others, acute psychiatry, hospital psychiatry, medical psychology, eating disorder care, care for depressions, and care for mother and child in the case of a postnatal psychosis or depression during the period after childbirth.

The department consists of approximately 155 colleagues from various disciplines, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, sociotherapists, and occupational therapists. You will work at one of the largest MPUs in the country. The clinic consists of three medico-psychiatric units, each with its own character, and a mother-baby unit with a supra-regional function. Additionally, the department has two outpatient clinics and a Psychiatric Consultative Service that supports other departments in the hospital with psychiatric questions.

The department is an important partner in acute mental health care in the Utrecht region. For some patient groups, it also fulfills a function outside the region.

You are part of the management team, together with the head of the department, the medical head, the other team leaders, the department manager, and the chairs of the professional groups. Together, you provide direction to the further development of the department.

• A salary between € 3.903 - € 5.503,- gross per month (FWG scale 55 Hospitals Collective Labour 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 based on 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 give employees confidence and make it clear what you expect from them. You listen to what is happening, discuss various interests, and help your team to make choices together. Even when care is complex or something changes, you remain accessible and provide direction.

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.

Do you want to build good psychiatric care and the development of your teams as a team leader? Then apply no later than November 16th via the application button. You will receive a response as soon as possible. Interviews will take place on Friday, November 20th.

Do you want to know more first? Call Natalie Troost, head of the Psychiatry & Medical Psychology department, via 088-3200325. She will be happy to answer your questions.

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