Head of Care & Nursing / Deputy Center Director

The GRITT Senior Center Waldenburgertal offers a home to 140 people in need of care and support. 270 skilled employees from nursing, hospitality, and administration work here according to our guiding principle:

You are at home – you are not alone!

Due to the retirement of our long-standing management, this key role will be vacant as of July 1, 2027. She has shaped and developed GRITT over many years. We thank her for that. Now we are looking for someone to carry on this work and write the next chapter. Much has been established and is well on its way. And not everything has been fully thought out yet.

Head of Care & Support
Deputy Center Director (m/f/d | 100%)

High levels of care, complex biographies, five care departments, the daily activities team & day care center, as well as the night watch with around 99 FTE, and no day is the same. Sounds exhausting? Welcome to the most beautiful job in the world.

This task is not for everyone. But it might be just right for you.

What this field of activity entails

• People at the center. This applies at GRITT to everyone: residents, guests, as well as employees and relatives. The well-being and optimal care and support are the measure of your actions. Our care and support concepts are established. Your task is to continuously develop them with your teams and keep them up to date.

• Responsibility at the highest management level. You lead the largest resort of GRITT, are a member of the center management, and deputy to the center director. Your voice counts from day one.

• Balance as a leadership art. You maintain the care requirements of our residents in balance with the work wishes and ideas of our employees. Especially in today's job market, this is perhaps the most important task of all. Institution-wide, we train over 40 people, from basic training to further studies. This is how our future talent grows with us, and we cultivate a culture where people stay because they fit in with us.

• Business understanding. Staffing plan, occupancy, and budget. No foreign word, no fright, but sometimes a puzzle that you enjoy solving.

• Shaping the future. With the service and area planning "GRITT Campus," we are currently clarifying how we can create space for the further development of our offerings, including the expansion of our infrastructure. And we are actively driving the digital transformation of long-term care: We are on the move, developing purposefully, and are open to exciting, innovative solutions. You will write these chapters.

What you bring

• A lighthouse personality. You provide orientation, even when there is fog around you. Calm, clear, and reliable. You say what needs to be said, even when it is uncomfortable.

• Mastery in proximity and distance. Close to residents, relatives, and employees while being clear in balancing human closeness and business necessity.

• Tertiary care training and leadership experience in a comparable institution: the foundation on which everything else is built.

You do not have to be perfect. But you should know who you are and what you can give to this task and these people.

What we offer

Creative freedom at the management level

without endless hierarchies. Your ideas have space here.

A team with heart, attitude, and humor,

that pulls together, with a touch of lightness.

Attractive employment conditions.

We know what our employees are worth.

Rural location, modern institution.

The tranquility of the Waldenburgertal and right in the middle an institution that knows where it is going.

Perhaps you didn't know this morning that you were looking for this role. And now:This is me! We look forward to your application.

There are always questions. And sometimes it takes a confidential conversation before you know if it really fits:
Stephan Hall, Center Director 061 965 20 00
Brigitte Frederiks, Head of Care & Support 061 965 20 00