Nurse h/f

Nurse (m/f)
Full-time and determined duration contract (CDD)
Registered Nurse (“ Infirmier Diplômé ”) (m/f) with Bachelor degree
Environmental Health
for the service “Medical Expertise and Data Intelligence” (MEDI, Department Health Protection)
in a full time position (40h/week) with a contract of determined duration (2 years) starting 1st of April 2025.
The nurse will be involved in PARC, the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals.
The LNS is a major player in Luxembourg’s healthcare sector, serving the country’s patients, doctors and hospitals. Under the supervision of the Ministry of Health and Social Security, the LNS is a multidisciplinary public institution organized around six diagnostic departments, two of which are designated as national diagnostic centers for human genetics and pathology respectively.
The LNS employs around 400 highly qualified staff with diverse backgrounds. In particular, in the field of diagnostics, the LNS covers the following fields of application: medical biology, microbiology, forensic medicine, environmental medicine, morphological and molecular pathology, and clinical genetics, as well as sequencing for rare diseases, oncology and pathogens.
About the Health Protection Department
The Department Health Protection supports public health and health care for problems caused or aggravated by the environment, including indoor pollution, the working context, and consumer products. Our main stakeholders are the hospitals, the ministries and the services for occupational medicine in Luxembourg.
The MEDI service hosts the medical, epidemiological and toxicological expertise in the domains of environmental and occupational health/medicine with an expanding team of nine members. An important task of MEDI is to set-up and carry out the epidemiological surveys for public health in Luxembourg, more specifically the surveys in environmental and occupational health. The Department also treats and analyses the samples of these surveys in its own laboratory, the service “Environmental Hygiene and Human Biological Monitoring (ENVIROH)”. Finally, a departmental administrative team and a departmental quality coordination team support the services’ and the department heads. As a nurse carrying out the surveys on the field in environmental health, you report directly to the head of the MEDI Service.
ii) in healthcare workers, and (iii) in waste management workers ;
Go on site for the field visit, and this with a team consisting of one technical officer and two nurses. The field visit includes the collection of biological and environmental samples, as well as questionnaire/interview data, over several hours, so it requires team work and spirit ;
The procedure will include both self-administered questionnaires (sent online to the participants and to be filled before the field visit) and interviews conducted during the field visits at home or in the companies ;
Collect samples in a variety of environmental matrices: indoor air, indoor dust, tap water, and specific occupational hygiene samples such as wipes and silicone wrist bands during the field visit at the participants’ home and in the companies ;
Be in charge of data entry/encoding of the questionnaire and interview data.
A diploma of nurse (Bachelor) recognized in Luxembourg with the authorization to practice in Luxembourg (“ Infirmier diplômé” ,
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Experience in carrying out the collection of human biological samples, and environmental samples or questionnaire/interview data, preferentially in Luxembourg and also outside the strictly clinical hospital acts ;
Perfect fluency in French or German – basic knowledge of English ;
Will be considered an asset: knowledge of public health and/or epidemiological field work ;
At the final stages of the recruitment process, the successful candidate will be asked to provide supporting documentation such as, copies of diplomas and certificates of employment.