Nurse – Service de médecine tropicale et humanitaire (SMTH) - 100%

As a nurse at the Service de médecine tropicale et humanitaire (SMTH), your mission consists of autonomously conducting pre-travel nursing consultations for a very diverse patient base (expatriates, families, humanitarians, immunosuppressed).

You conduct and manage primary line nursing consultations autonomously, in compliance with the missions, protocols, and delegations entrusted to you.

You also ensure a counseling activity for male and female travelers by formulating personalized recommendations regarding travel risk prevention (vaccinations, prophylaxis, hygiene measures, prevention of infectious diseases and other health risks). You actively participate in vaccination campaigns at various sites.

You work in collaboration with a multi-professional team as well as with internal and external care networks, including non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and partners present at the Global Health Campus.

Your empathy, your interpersonal skills, and your ability to create a climate of trust allow you to position yourself as a full partner in care.

Possessing excellent adaptability and organizational skills, you are able to deal with large and variable patient flows while maintaining quality care. You manage unforeseen events and stress-generating situations calmly.

You possess excellent interpersonal skills, a developed sense of welcome, and benevolent communication, allowing you to meet the expectations of a demanding and multicultural patient base.

As part of your activity, you will be required to work on two sites.

You hold a Bachelor HES in nursing or an equivalent nursing diploma recognized by the Croix-Rouge suisse.

You have a diversified professional practice of more than 4 years in the field of public health and/or community health and knowledge in vaccinology. You benefit from training in nursing clinical assessment.

A training in tropical and travel medicine constitutes a real asset.

You have a very good level of English, both oral and written. Mastery of another language constitutes an asset.

You know how to adapt to various contexts, unforeseen events, and variations in workload.

You possess excellent interpersonal skills, a sense of welcome, and benevolent communication.

• Place of work: Service de médecine tropicale et humanitaire, site Cluse-Roseraie / Roseraie & Global Health Campus (rive droite)
• Start date: as soon as possible
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Job class: 15
• Type of contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 15.09.2026
• Inquiries: M. S. Gay, responsable d’équipe de soins, tel. 079 553 70 06

Your application dossier must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This advertisement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l’emploi.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.

With more than 13'000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at the national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kVMJchPR0).

The Département de médecine de premier recours (https://www.hug.ch/departement-medecine-premier-recours) (DMPR) has the societal mission to enable access to quality care for all through local medicine, to ensure the management of light medical and surgical emergencies, to promote prevention among citizens, to provide medical knowledge for judicial investigations, and to promote the health of male and female travelers.

The service de médecine tropicale et humanitaire ensures the management of patients who have traveled and present an import, tropical or parasitic pathology and provides prevention advice. It performs specialized vaccinations for travelers, expatriates, students, and the local population. Furthermore, this service actively participates in vaccination interventions in case of an epidemic or other identified need.