Nursing Specialist

BE HUMAN at work… I develop perspectives, for myself and for others. … I experience appreciation through my work. At the Center for Mental Health (ZSG), we provide comprehensive, appreciative care for all age groups at our five clinics for psychiatry and psychosomatics. In psychiatry, we don't just nurse according to plan; we accompany life paths with competence and empathy. With our three hospitals – Katharinenhospital, Olgahospital, and Krankenhaus Bad Cannstatt – we are the largest hospital in Baden-Württemberg. Over 9,500 employees care for patients on wards, in operating theaters, and functional areas, or work in administration, technology, or IT to ensure smooth hospital operations. At two attractively located sites in Stuttgart, we offer you a meaningful and future-oriented workplace in over 55 clinics and institutes as a maximum-care provider and academic teaching hospital of the University of Tübingen.

Ward P8a specializes in the treatment of people with depression and emotionally unstable personality disorders. A particular focus is on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which we implement evidence-based and resource-oriented in a multiprofessional team, promoting stabilization, self-efficacy, and the development of new coping strategies. Your tasks include: planning, implementation, and documentation of specialized basic and treatment care considering individual patient needs and current nursing findings and expert standards; conducting risk screenings (e.g., decubitus, aggression, suicidality); creating care plans within a therapy plan in coordination with patients, including developing realistic goals and conducting planned regular therapeutic conversations (reflection, evaluation); supportive and orientation-providing conversations; performing and assisting with blood draws, injections, infusions, and other medical orders; participating in ward rounds and their follow-up; instructing and advising patients and relatives; preventive and/or de-escalating interventions for patients with self-/other-endangerment; intensive care and support in crisis situations – combined with supportive or therapeutic interventions; preparation, assistance, and follow-up for diagnostic and therapeutic measures; conducting nursing-therapeutic groups; participating in interdisciplinary case conferences and supervisions; co-therapeutic collaboration in the multiprofessional team.

You are a qualified nursing specialist (m/f/d) or a certified health and nurse (m/f/d). Advanced training in psychiatry would be desirable. Professional knowledge in general psychiatry is required. You have an interest in working with and supporting people in difficult life situations. You have organizational skills and a sense of responsibility. You possess comprehensive social and nursing competencies and enjoy your profession. Commitment and teamwork are a matter of course for you.

A structured onboarding concept and over 500 internal advanced and further training opportunities through our in-house academy. If needed, we assist new employees in finding modern and sustainable staff accommodation. Additional benefits such as corporate health management, various sports offerings, and good, affordable catering in our staff canteens & kiosks. Work where it really counts: meaningful, crisis-proof, and future-relevant – a job at Klinikum Stuttgart. We offer our employees access to the platforms 'Corporate Benefits', 'Wellhub', and 'JobRad'. We have received the 'Beruf und Familie' audit certificate multiple times and actively promote work-life balance. We offer our employees modern working time and childcare concepts that fit their lifestyle. At the Mitte and Bad Cannstatt sites, we provide a certain number of places in our company daycare center. Remuneration according to the collective agreement TVöD or TV-Ärzte VKA appropriate to the position and professional group, plus an employer-financed company pension scheme via ZVK. All employees receive a 50% subsidy for the 'DeutschlandTicket Job' with SSB.