Who are we?
Home Help and Care Liège – Huy – Waremme, in partnership with the Mutualité Chrétienne de Liège, provides and coordinates integrated, multidisciplinary home help and care services in the districts of Liège - Huy - Waremme. It promotes networking to meet patients' needs. To do this, it can count on the collaboration of more than 750 professionals (family helpers, nurses, care assistants, home carers, coordinators, social household helpers, multi-skilled workers, child carers, etc.).
Profile required:
The Head Nurse reports to the Director of the ASD Nursing Department.
Qualifications required : Be in possession of a diploma, qualification or certificate. The diploma, qualification or certificate is obtained in the following ways:
- Diploma of graduate nurse: full-practice education - higher level - comprising at least 3 years of study or its equivalent in social promotion education, organised in a school recognised by the competent authority.
- Title of bachelor of nursing: full education - higher level - comprising at least 3 years of study or its equivalent in social promotion education, organised in a school recognised by the competent authority.
- Brevet d'infirmier-e hospitalier (hospital nurse's certificate): full education - complementary secondary level - comprising at least 3 years of study or its equivalent in social promotion education, organised in a school recognised by the competent authority.
The diploma, title or certificate may be supplemented by a bachelor's/master's degree or executive training and must be approved in advance by the FPS Public Health. Nurses must have an INAMI number and a VISA.
Skills required:
- Know how to manage a team: have the social skills needed to supervise colleagues, as well as planning and organisational skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage time with a sense of priorities.
- Be able to train in the programmes used to manage tours and encode services.
- After training, be able to apply internal procedures relating to personnel management policy.
- Look for ways to optimise the way the department operates.
- Be rigorous in following administrative and legislative instructions.
- Good listening skills. Provide information to patients·s, discuss complaints with them, reassure them if necessary and check their level of satisfaction.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Resolving various staff-related problems in the team in collaboration with the line manager.
- Demonstrate expertise in technical nursing services and procedures that can be assigned by a doctor.
- Comply with the rules of professional conduct, duty of discretion, professional secrecy and shared secrecy.
- Demonstrate a sense of responsibility.
- Know how to work in an interdisciplinary way, referring to other professionals for all procedures that do not fall within his/her remit.
- Being able to react in exceptional circumstances.
- Demonstrate the ability to work in a multidisciplinary department and as part of a team.
Your tasks:
1. Employee supervision
- Drawing up staff schedules and adapting existing schedules to the needs of the sector to ensure continuity of care. Ensuring optimal management of contractual working hours; determining nurses' rounds, taking care to respect nurses' working hours.·e·s and care assistants while meeting the needs of patients.
- Ensure that the team's nursing staff have the necessary equipment.
- Supporting and motivating employees by reaching clear agreements and applying established procedures.
- Maintaining formal and informal contact with nurses and care assistants.
- Assessing and monitoring the quality of care. Passing on observations to staff.
- Identify training needs.
- Conducting all types of interview (selection, operations, coaching, etc.).
- Organising team meetings: convening, chairing and drafting minutes.
- Welcoming trainees and working closely with schools.
2. Service at the patient's home
- Providing care, ensuring that it is carried out regularly throughout the sector so as to have an overall view.
- Get to know your patients well and check their level of satisfaction.
- Carry out nursing care in accordance with the care plan drawn up on the basis of the patient's needs:
- Deciphering patient needs and providing comprehensive care,
- Listen to them and those around them,
- Encouraging the patientਗ਼e to develop, maintain or restore their autonomy.
- Providing an appropriate response through nursing care and carrying out this care with due regard for priorities,
- Drawing up and updating the patient's nursing file in accordance with current legislation,
- Encouraging and involving handling techniques, including technical aids.
- Ensuring administrative follow-up of services.
- Integrate your actions into a preventive framework.
- Providing support for close carers.
3. Additional tasks
- In consultation with departmental management, review and select staffing requirements.
- On-call duty outside office hours.
- Encoding employee performance in a computer programme.
- Working with the ICs, managing the various referral teams (wound care, palliative care, etc.) and other parallel tasks (mentoring, representation, training, etc.).
4. Interdisciplinary work
- Within the framework defined by management, coordinates its work with the other ASD departments (Help with Daily Living, Coordination, Social Economy, Administration and Finance).
- Promoting and maintaining an ongoing collaborative approach with all DSA departments and external stakeholders in order to guarantee continuity and quality of care.
- Consult with nurses/care assistants, colleagues, line managers and other care and support providers on the patient's state of health and the treatment to be given.
- Consult with working groups on proposals to improve patient services.
- Taking an active part in multidisciplinary, coordination, consultation and team meetings.
- Be part of a continuous training process.
- Work with outside organisations in accordance with instructions from management and decisions taken by the team;
- Collaborate with and question the patient's GP and/or specialist doctor.
- Get involved and participate in the partnerships developed by ASD.
5. Cross-functional missions
- Promote and guarantee the functioning and values of ASD.
- Comply with safety standards and apply basic rules to avoid any risk to health and well-being at work.
- Completing the various administrative documents and complying with the relevant instructions and deadlines.
- By delegation, to represent the department in the medico-social field.
What we offer:
- A human adventure that is built on a daily basis, in a multidisciplinary team using communication and mutual support as tools.
- Opportunities for professional and personal development through continuous training, varied technical procedures and a diverse patient base. Our approach to patient care is holistic, built around three dimensions: social, physical and psychological.
- A job that allows for autonomy and responsibility within a small organisation.
- A full-time, open-ended contract.
- Teleworking possible after confirmed integration, on-call system one weekend in three.
- A salary package based on IFIC scales (category 17) including the following benefits: company car (possibility of personal use), petrol card, meal vouchers, group insurance, reduced working hours/weekend bonuses, a service mobile phone and a tablet for professional use, end-of-career recuperation (dispensation or bonus), white coat fund leave.
- Start date: 1 November 2026