Company Description

Local establishments relying on multidisciplinary skills to serve patients, the Moutier Hospital and Saint-Imier Hospital offer high value-added activities in the somatic and mental health fields.

With nearly 1,200 employees, the hospitals and Medicentres of the Arc Network cover the medical needs of a population of over 50,000 inhabitants and are characterised by their dynamism, excellent infrastructure, and constant commitment to developing local and quality services.

Job Description

• Provide care to individuals and groups of all ages suffering from psychiatric disorders.
• Ensure secure care for adults and young adults in psychiatric crisis situations.
• Lead various types of patient groups.
• Assess the clinical condition of patients upon admission, ensure structured monitoring of their progress, and adapt care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team (development of a patient pathway).
• Be able to identify and prevent crisis situations and manage them if necessary.
• Implement specialised nursing interventions, individual or group, aimed at stabilisation, regaining autonomy, and relapse prevention.
• Maintain excellent collaboration within a multidisciplinary team as well as with various regional networks.
• Involve the patient in their own care to strengthen their self-esteem, responsibility, and autonomy in action and decision-making.
• Participate in therapeutic and medical measures by managing delegated treatments and monitoring the patient’s progress.
• Develop an individualised care approach (nurse’s own role).
• Collect information; analyse it; make a nursing diagnosis; determine care objectives; implement appropriate actions; evaluate them and make necessary adjustments.
• Maintain and develop daily living activities (hygiene, comfort, relationships).
• Inform and provide necessary and appropriate education to the client and their immediate family to strengthen their responsibility and autonomy in action and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or equivalent qualification.
• Proven experience in adult psychiatry (a CAS in psychiatry or a DU in mental health is an advantage).
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills: active listening, professional stance, mediation ability.
• Good ability to manage complex and unpredictable situations.
• Ability to integrate and adapt within a multidisciplinary team (doctors, psychologists, nurses, ASSC, etc.).
• Sense of responsibility and good priority management.
• Strong interest in interdisciplinary work.
• Team spirit.
• Flexibility, motivation, and dynamism.
• Comfortable using IT tools.
• Availability to work a schedule with day/night rotations and weekends.
• Interest in the evolution of clinical practices and innovation in psychiatric care.

Additional Information

• An activity in a fascinating field, within a hospital at the forefront of technological development
• A pleasant working environment
• A motivating salary and social conditions

We pay great attention to the diversity of life paths of our collaborators. Our positions are open to both women and men.