A professional future in nursing – with job security!
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A real career with a future – as a qualified nurse with Victor’s in Germany!
Application deadline is February 29th!
Work in nursing
with solid prospects for the future!
Learn German
– at no cost for you!
Comprehensive support
to get you started in Germany!
Work where you prefer
– in the country or a metropolitan region.
The skills shortage in Germany’s nursing sector has long since become a political issue. There is a desperate need for qualified nurses even though the work conditions are good in the international comparison. At Victor’s, we found a solution to this problem years ago for our 120 residences – as we call our nursing homes. We contact well educated nurses, not only in Germany but around the world, offering employment here at our facilities. Thus we have learned what is important for the people who come to join us. To effectively start a new career in a country that is still foreign to them, with security and no fears. With an unlimited employment contract, good earnings and solid future prospects. Sounds interesting? Then keep reading – or apply here:
Who we are looking for – and what you can expect from us:
You have completed a course of studies as a nurse and your credentials are recognised by us. This means you are well prepared for working with us, since our facilities are not the nursing homes you know from Portugal. What awaits you with us in Germany is care of the elderly at the level of a hospital with internal medicine and geriatric care.
All of our facilities are structured this way. That also means more responsibility for you. As a rule, a doctor is always available at a hospital. With us, responsibility rests with the nurse who decides in case of need when in-house care is no longer sufficient and an emergency doctor has to be called.
In Germany the fundamental need for help with the accomplishment of curative care, personal hygiene, nutrition and mobility for seniors with physical or mental illnesses and infirmities is divided into five care levels. Depending on the individual care level, each elderly person living in our residences requires an average of 30 to 280 minutes of nursing time. Some need help at night or around-the-clock care. Naturally there is a need for human love and warmth that cannot be learned or quantified.
Thus we offer an environment where you can put all the abilities you acquired during your studies to use with heart and hand.
Application deadline is February 29th!
We will gladly call you back!
You have questions? Of course we call you back during our working hours, please use the form and leave at least a phone number we can reach you at.
The start of your career in Germany lies before you. Here is what you can look forward to:
A permanent position for an unlimited term after completing the 6-month probationary period
A salary that is competitive in the international comparison
Ongoing, continuing professional development – we cover the costs
A management culture in our facilities that takes your needs and wishes into account
A friendly working atmosphere defined by cooperation
Individual career opportunities in nursing, nursing administration and nursing education
… and should you need it, a welfare system you can truly rely on with a German employment contract. Interested? Then read on to find out how we can get together:
Matters of the heart
Highlights
Hurdles overcome successfully
Matters of the heart
Vania Mendez: Not what I expected. Because it’s so much better.
After I completed my studies in Portugal, there wasn’t really a future for me at home. Then I saw the offer to work for Victor’s in Germany as a qualified nurse. Naturally the prospects there were a lot better.
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But moving to Germany meant I had to leave my family in Portugal behind. Not to mention that I really didn’t know anyone in Germany. That was especially difficult for me, because I thought the people in Germany would be rather cold and not very helpful. What would I do there other than work, and otherwise be entirely alone?
On the other hand, my husband was already trying to find a suitable job in France. Finally I plucked up the courage and applied for the position in Germany. I was accepted almost right away, took the language courses and had the good fortune of starting work in a small town in western Germany together with a fellow student. Everything turned out differently than I expected. Because it’s so much better.
Until we found a place of our own, me and my fellow student lived right in the Victor’s residence itself. Our rooms were across from each other. That was nice of course. But what was even better: our new colleagues together with the facility’s management had set up a small TV for us in our rooms, and put out fresh flowers. Our fridges were also filled with everything you need for an ample breakfast.
Being received with such care and warmth made me feel really welcome. And that continued. During my training and afterwards when I started working as a qualified nurse. Also at my new place of work in Bonn. Interactions between colleagues are really friendly. Meanwhile my husband is working at Victor’s as well and we have our first daughter. And the prospects? I would like to become the manager of a residence. That is a realistic goal and my employer is supporting me with continuing education and everything that goes with that.
Victor Mendez – all’s well that ends well.
I broke off my studies in Portugal after one year because I had to get a job. After I tried my luck in France, my wife ultimately found the position with Victor’s in Germany. But I didn’t know any German yet, had not completed my studies and initially found nothing in Germany.
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After my wife had been with Victor’s for some time and learned how many different fields of activity there are within the group, where speaking German fluently and a completed course of studies are not necessarily required, also in the company’s hotels, she asked on my behalf.
As it turns out, it was no problem at all. The manager of the residence where she worked put in a good word for me and got me a job with Victor’s in Bonn. It was even in nursing, the field I used to study in Portugal. Now I am continuing to learn German, I have various options for completing a course of studies, we have bought a house here and my prospects are much better than three years ago, also for my career.
Highlights
Manuel Moreira – a career my family and I can be proud of
I am familiar with both worlds. I grew up as the child of Portuguese parents in Germany, completed a course of studies in nursing management here and then worked in that occupation in various German facilities. Certainly things have not always been easy.
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But what I liked very much were the courtesy and reliability of my employers here, a social system that would give me security in case of need, and respect for the needs and wishes of seniors in day-to-day interactions at the facilities. In order to familiarise myself with the nursing system in Portugal, I worked there for five years in a government hospital with the corresponding fixed-term contracts and the resulting economic uncertainty for the individual. With no prospects for the future. Things are very different here in Germany. The tide turned when I came back to Germany. I was taken seriously, my ambition was valued and my commitment was rewarded. What I used to read about modern companies that support their employees and deploy them with a resource orientation is what I found at Victor’s.
Now I am the manager of our Ambiente residence in Bonn. The group has great faith in me and I can develop and implement new services as project manager for the Bonn site. Integration and opening doors for other people, making similar experiences possible for them, is a hobby for me. What I like especially well at Victor’s is the friendly, humane atmosphere. An example: After a facility manager meeting in Saarbrücken, the executive had sandwiches made for us to take on the trip back. Although you can buy snacks anywhere when you get hungry, that was a very personal and human gesture to me. It really reminded me of home. They were looking after our wellbeing. Just like a family. Empathy and human relationships count here. The more you contribute, the more you get back. And there are always prospects for the future. I have been working in nursing for 30 years now. At Victor’s I have a career my family and I can be proud of.
Hurdles overcome successfully
Daniel Klein – we know what we are doing and provide support where we can
We are a pioneer in the international recruitment of skilled workers in geriatric care. Since more than five years, we have been recruiting people from around the world to work at our 120 facilities across Germany. That is why we have a specialised department for this at Victor’s.
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This is uncommon in our industry. Our experience with the integration of people from abroad is correspondingly extensive, making a new start in a foreign country as easy as possible for them. We have trained integration officers especially for this task. They help every new employee who comes from outside Germany find their way. For instance, they assist with the necessary bureaucratic matters, banking and mobile phone contracts. And of course with finding a place to live. This is where we as the employer also provide all the help we can.
We are a family-run company. With body and soul. Among other things, this is reflected by the fact that we do not operate for short-term profits but based on long-term planning. Which also applies to our employees. We identify prospects and support careers. Accordingly our employees can expect the same loyalty from us that often is assumed only the other way around. We are fair and friendly. And we have a sense of family. Which is why we provide all the help we can, for example in case of family immigration. As a strong group of companies with more than 12,500 employees and business areas aside from geriatric care, for instance the building trade and the hotel business, we have many means of support at our disposal. We want you to have a long-term plan with us in Germany and we stay on the ball. So you can build a future for yourself here.
Let’s get to know each other – the first step towards a job with a future in geriatric care.
Getting started in a foreign country is never all that easy. Take heart, apply if you think that a secure job with future prospects after completing your studies is just the thing for you. That is the first step.
If we agree that you are right for us, we will get to know each other personally. Here in Portugal. We’ll talk. In Portuguese of course. If you and we are convinced that it’s a good fit for both sides, we take the next steps together:
In a programme subsidised by the EU, you learn German while still in Portugal. Taking part in this programme costs you nothing. In the interim we apply for official recognition of your degree in Germany, you decide at which of our 120 locations you would most like to work and we conclude an unlimited, German employment contract with you (a 6-month probationary period is customary under German employment law).
Once you successfully pass your examination for “German at language level B2” after about 6 months, your employment contract comes into force. Then you head for your new job in Germany.
What makes your start in Germany easy:
Living:
You can live in your residence, at your place of work, for up to 6 months for a small fee. Ample time to find a place of your own.
Elements of daily life:
Our integration officers with special training provide practical support to help you make a home for yourself. For example, they help with bureaucratic matters, opening a current account or choosing the right mobile phone contract.
Solid training:
Nobody who starts a new job can do everything well right away and instantly knows what’s important. Which is why we developed a concept that helps you quickly gain confidence in knowing what counts.
What else you should know about Victor’s
We represent geriatric care with a big heart and a broad chest. Enabling a good, self-determined life for seniors is our mission, impetus and pride. We are part of the Victor’s Group with more than 120 facilities for seniors across Germany, two nursing schools and our own academy. 120 facilities for seniors means that we have more than 17,000 beds with 14,000 inpatient nursing spaces and 3,000 assisted living spaces. About 12,500 people work in the group as a whole, not only in geriatric care but also in 13 hotels, at a resort and a construction firm. The possibility of finding a job in one of our other divisions, for example for a spouse or family members, is always given. We are a family-run company. And we know how important family is. That is one of the reasons we have been successful for more than 40 years.
Application deadline is February 29th!
Careers with a future in geriatric care – start now.
Interested? We are glad to hear that! You will find the application form here:
Mrs Irene Aguiar will be gladly available to answer any further questions on the phone during office hours (8 AM – 4 PM): +351 214 826 776.
We will gladly call you back!
You have questions? Of course we call you back during our working hours, please use the form and leave at least a phone number we can reach you at.
Nearly 150,000 people of Portuguese origins are already living in Germany, most of them in metropolises like Berlin and Hamburg. You want to work there too? We can probably arrange that. Or would you prefer a midsize city like Bonn or Mainz? Gladly. You don’t really like metropolitan regions and would be more comfortable in a rural area, like Oberau in Bavaria with a view of the Alps? That too is possible – you will find our 120 locations across Germany here on the map. Take a look and get inspired about where you want to live and work starting in 2021.
