Deputy Head Nurse

Would you be interested in working at the forefront of ensuring a good customer experience, high-quality patient care and staff competence in the Pre-analytics area? HUS Diagnostics Center is Finland’s leading provider of clinical laboratory and imaging services. Our main area of operation is specialist medical care within the HUS Group and primary healthcare in the wellbeing services counties belonging to HUS. We are also responsible for laboratory and imaging services in the Kymenlaakso and South Karelia wellbeing services counties. We operate in eight medical specialties. Nationwide, we are responsible for several examinations requiring special expertise, as well as research and teaching associated with a university hospital. Diagnostic examinations play a key role in confirming and ruling out diseases, as part of treatment, and in monitoring and screening. HUS Diagnostics Center employs approximately 3,400 laboratory and imaging professionals at more than 150 locations. We are seeking a Deputy Head Nurse for a specialist role in a permanent position. The role is based in the laboratories of the New Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital in Helsinki. As a specialist, you will be at the forefront of orienting new employees, guiding students, and planning and implementing changes. Alongside maintaining your own competence and doing the basic work, an important part of your role is quality management and cooperation with care units. You are an experienced laboratory nurse and a pre-analytics specialist. You understand and know the entire clinical laboratory service chain. As a specialist, you will work clinically together with sample collectors and cooperate with other specialists in the area, team leads, the head nurse, the unit manager and other people responsible for processes. You will maintain networks with other specialists. As a specialist, you will have a key role in carrying out a high-quality laboratory work process. Your task is to ensure sampling quality and patient safety. Our aim is timely and safe sampling and high-quality customer encounters. As a large employer, we can offer good opportunities for career development within the organisation. With work experience and further training, your colleagues have moved into various project, coordinator or supervisory roles, among others. You will receive support from the team and responsible personnel, as well as a high-quality orientation. You may be the person we are looking for if you are interested in the above and enjoy working with people, in different situations and in a changing operating environment. You may be motivated to develop as a specialist, but above all we hope you are a team player and able to work and make decisions independently. The role requires good spoken and written Finnish. The position requires education as a laboratory nurse or biomedical laboratory scientist. HUS offers its employees a range of employment benefits, an ePassi sports and culture benefit, an employer-supported lunch, the opportunity to apply for HUS rental housing, rental holiday cottages and many other benefits. The position-specific salary is €3,661.10 per month, with a possible experience increment. The employment starts on 1 January 2027 or as agreed. Please apply as soon as possible, and no later than 18 November 2026. Welcome to join our team! Eligibility requirements for the position An applicable higher university degree and relevant experience, or a lower university degree supplemented by suitable studies in management or administration, or included in the degree, and relevant experience, or previously approved qualification as a head nurse and relevant experience, or an institute-level degree in the field supplemented by studies in management or administration and relevant experience; in addition, a licensed healthcare professional. The language requirement is good spoken and written Finnish and satisfactory spoken and written Swedish, or good spoken and written Swedish and satisfactory spoken and written Finnish. Employees working in customer and patient facilities are required to have vaccination protection under the Communicable Diseases Act. Employees working in healthcare units are required to provide a health-status assessment for pulmonary tuberculosis. Contact information For further information about the position, contact Head Nurse Annette Rusanen, tel. 040 615 3024, email annette.rusanen@hus.fi.