Student Nurse

As a student, you will participate in the team and gradually learn the profession in disability care. Under the guidance of experienced colleagues, you will grow towards more independence.

• Provide intensive nursing and medical care to clients with complex care needs.
• Support clients in their development and contribute to as normal and pleasant a life as possible.
• Signal what clients need, even when they cannot express it themselves.
• Collaborate with parents, relatives, and other stakeholders around the client.
• Gain knowledge and experience with methodologies such as Triple C and LACCS.
• Perform nursing technical procedures under the guidance of colleagues, appropriate to your education and learning phase.
• Support daily care, activities, development-oriented guidance, and nursing care.
• Learn by doing, observing, reflecting, and asking questions.
• Work with children and young adults with diverse care needs.
• Participate in the roster, including evening, weekend, and possibly sleep shifts, appropriate to your education and learning goals.

You are pursuing a Nursing (Mbo-V) or a combination with Social Care education and are at least in your 3rd year.

• Affinity with children and young adults with severe disabilities.
• Eager to learn and develop yourself in practice.
• Patient, sensitive, and attentive to small signals.
• Dares to ask questions, reflect, and take initiative.
• Perseverance and courage.
• Works with attention, empathy, and a warm heart for clients and their network.
• Sees opportunities and enjoys small successes and developmental steps.
• Flexible for various shifts.

• You will work in a homely residential and respite care home for children and young adults with very severe multiple disabilities (ZEMB).
• You will guide permanent residents and regularly receive temporary guests.
• Clients attend day activities from Monday to Friday, where experience- and development-oriented activities are central, such as music, sensory stimulation, cooking, and walking.
• When clients do not attend day activities, activities take place at the residence or in the surrounding area.
• You will work closely with nurses, client relatives, fellow supervisors, the primary care provider, and the Physician for Intellectual Disabilities.
• A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required.