2 heads of department for Friplejehjemmet Helene Marie in Helsinge

Two department heads sought for Friplejehjemmet Helene Marie

Would you like to help shape the future of elderly care – and make your mark on an organization in rapid development?

Are you a nurse or a social- and health care assistant with a leadership qualification and leadership experience?

Are you passionate about professional quality, hands-on leadership and developing staff?

Then you now have the opportunity to become a central part of a new management model at Friplejehjemmet Helene Marie in Helsinge.

We are seeking two engaged and development-oriented department heads who want to take responsibility, create direction and contribute to further developing both professionalism, collaboration and daily life for our residents and staff.

At Helene Marie we believe that opportunities are created together. We want a nursing home where residents experience dignity, self-determination, security and quality of life, and where staff have the best conditions to deliver care and high-quality nursing.

Now we take the next step in our organizational development – and we would like you to join.

A new leadership role with the opportunity to set direction

We are establishing a new organizational model, where two department heads will each be responsible for 45 residents spread over three departments with accompanying staff.

This is a new position at Helene Marie, and you therefore have a special opportunity to help shape the content of the role and further develop the way we organize, lead and solve our core tasks.

We want to create an organization with clear leadership, strong professional communities, clear areas of responsibility and close cross-collaboration.

You will become an important part of the overall management and will have a central role in translating our ambitions into concrete action in everyday life.

We do not expect you to come with all the solutions. We expect you to have the courage to ask questions, think anew, take responsibility and together with us create an organization that is constantly getting better.

Your responsibilities

As department head you will have overall daily management responsibility for your three departments, their residents and staff.

Staff management and work environment

You will among other things

Be a visible, present and clear leader for the staff.

Create direction, structure and clear expectations for task execution.

Ensure well-being, collaboration and a good psychosocial work environment.

Work with competency development, introduction and retention of staff.

Support self-managing teams and develop staff's responsibilities and professional competences.

Handle personnel issues and ensure follow-up on agreements and actions.

Contribute to a culture characterized by trust, accountability, dialogue and joint solutions.

Professional quality and development

You will play a central role in ensuring that residents receive high-quality care and nursing.

This implies that you should

Work closely with the house nurses and 6 discipline coordinators distributed across 6 departments on professional quality and development. Here you will have close collaboration with 3 of them and 1 nurse.

Support a systematic approach to documentation, professional observations and follow-up.

We use Nexus.

Ensure that current instructions and workflows are translated into practice.

Follow up on inspections, quality work and improvement efforts.

Support a learning culture where staff reflect on their own practice.

Contribute to developing professionalism across the three departments.

Ensure that residents' individual needs, wishes and self-determination are the starting point for care.

You have the leadership responsibility to ensure quality is prioritized and followed up in daily life. The professional nursing quality you develop in close cooperation with the nurses and discipline coordinators.

Operations and finance

You also have responsibility for ensuring smooth daily operations in your departments.

Together with the nursing home manager you shall

Follow up on finances, resource use and budgets.

Ensure appropriate use of personnel resources.

Work with staffing, planning and alignment between tasks and competencies.

Identify opportunities to use resources better without compromising residents' well-being and professional quality.

Follow up on goals, results and agreed actions.

We believe that good leadership is about creating alignment between people, professionalism and economy – and about finding solutions that work in practice.

Who are you?

We are looking for someone who has both professional insight, managerial impact and a desire to develop people and the organization.

We imagine that you

Are educated as a nurse or social- and health care assistant.

Have a leadership qualification and documented leadership experience.

Have experience from the elderly care sector or a related health and care organization.

Can create followership through clear communication, trust and integrity. Have an understanding of personnel management, economy, operations and resource prioritization.

Work structured and follow up on decisions and agreements.

Can keep an overview and prioritize when daily life is complex.

Are willing to challenge habits and develop new solutions.

Can collaborate across professional groups and management areas.

Have an eye for both the individual resident, staff well-being and the organization's overall goals.

You do not need to have tried it all before. But you must be willing to take responsibility, create results and help set a clear direction.

A key part of the overall leadership

At Helene Marie we succeed best when we work together and take joint responsibility.

You will collaborate closely with the nursing home manager, the nurses, the discipline coordinators and other functions in the house.

We want a leadership model where responsibility is clearly positioned, where decisions are followed through, and where professionalism, operations and finances are thought together.

You must therefore be able to stand strong in your own departments and actively contribute to the overall development of Helene Marie.

What do we offer you?

We offer you an exciting and meaningful leadership position where you have the opportunity to influence both your own role and the organization’s development.

You will get

A newly established leadership position with real opportunity for influence.

Leadership responsibility for 45 residents spread over three departments and the corresponding staff.

Opportunity to help further develop the new organizational model.

A close collaboration with the nursing home manager.

Opportunity to strengthen the professionalism and develop staff competencies.

An workplace where we work for hominess, dignity, self-determination and quality of life.

Opportunity to put your mark on the future care and nursing at Helene Marie.

Working hours and terms

Working hours: 37 hours per week.

Workplace: Friplejehjemmet Helene Marie, Egetrolden 2, 3200 Helsinge.

Work arrangement: Mainly day shifts, with expectation of availability and leadership presence some weekends by agreement.

Start date: By agreement.

Application deadline: 27.10.2026

Salary and terms of employment are agreed according to qualifications and applicable frameworks.

Would you like to help create something new?

We are looking for two leaders who want more than just making daily life function. We are looking for you who want to develop it.

You who can see opportunities, create engagement and translate ambitions into action.

You who know that good elderly care is created through skilled staff, clear leadership and a shared focus on the human being it is all about.

Do you want to help set the direction for the next chapter at Helene Marie? Then we look forward to hearing from you.

Send your application and CV to [email protected]

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the nursing home manager at 23440322

Friplejehjemmet Helene Marie – a home with high ceilings, where we create opportunities together.