Adolescent Psychiatry Ward 4 at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Gødstrup and Herning is seeking nurses for permanent positions, AUH

We are seeking two nurses for permanent positions, initially 37 hours.

In the Adolescent Psychiatric Ward 4 we admit young patients aged 14–18 (21) years with various psychiatric disorders and issues.

As a nurse with us you will be part of a manageable department with conditions and framework that allow you to focus on the individual youth and meet them with high professional standards regarding their psychiatric problems.

We are good at helping each other in daily life, and you will always have someone to confer with about big and small matters.

We emphasise a calm everyday life, as experience shows that the youths function best in this, though some days are busy.

With us you can expect

• a thoroughly planned introduction program, where you will get a mentor who can be used for sparring in connection with start-up and training in the different work areas we have in the ward
• a varied daily life, where we solve challenges together, with strong professional security and high competence in the interdisciplinary collaboration between the ward's many professional groups
• to meet the youths in short and longer admissions of both acute and elective character as well as during user-directed admissions
• colleagues and management characterized among other things by their engagement and motivation for the adolescent psychiatric specialty and solving our primary tasks of assessment, diagnosis and treatment
• to become part of our good working environment, where we continuously focus on having a safe and appreciative environment with room for humor and professional reflection
• opportunities for courses and development during your employment.

Your task after the introduction period will be to

• observe and describe your observations based on knowledge of the adolescent psychiatric specialty and continue to improve your skills within this
• be able to accommodate the youths with severe self-harm, digital self-harm and outwardly challenging behaviour and dare to have conversations about this in collaboration with your colleagues
• focus on working to prevent coercion together with the rest of the ward staff
• focus on relationship building and patient involvement
• be able to adapt planned activities according to the youth's individual needs and functional level
• participate in de-escalation and assist other inpatient wards in difficult situations after training therefor.

In our ward we work, among other things, with focus on

• interdisciplinary collaboration based on a mentalization-based milieu therapy and a primary contact system. We have opportunities for various activities in the department such as board games, sport, creative activities, socializing and small talk as part of observing the youths
• patient involvement and close collaboration with relatives and residential facilities.

We strive to see the whole person. The youths, alongside their psychiatric challenges, undergo the same development as other youths regarding identity, education, gender, budding sexuality, establishing a circle of friends and digital literacy, etc.

We strive for day and evening shifts or day and night shifts. The positions include, as a rule, 6–8 evening or night shifts per month and weekend work every 3rd weekend in 12-hour shifts. Since we are a mixed staff group, there are often different preferences for the distribution of shifts and we do a lot to find a balance for the individual employee in relation to the number of evening/night shifts.

Short about the Adolescent Ward AUH/Skejby and Gødstrup

The ward consists of inpatient wards in Gødstrup and inpatient wards at AUH/Skejby, where the bed places are allocated as follows

• Ward 4 Gødstrup has 5 beds (6 available beds)
• Ward 2 Skejby with 11 beds, of which 5 are shielded (12 available beds)

The Adolescent Ward in Gødstrup is a general adolescent psychiatric inpatient ward that handles hospital-based care for youths aged 14–18 (up to 21) with psychiatric issues. The ward has an emergency intake function and performs observation and treatment tasks, and we have on a daily basis a particularly close collaboration with the inpatient ward in Skejby.

The use of coercion has been significantly minimized over the last six years, and we work systematically with continued prevention of coercion and is the aim to be a Belt-free Ward.

Further information can be obtained by contacting the Clinical Chief Nurse Karina Kruse at ext. 3090 1294 or Chief Nurse Rikke Nielsen at tel. 2162 1149.

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. Employment is conditional on a satisfactory child and criminal record and a satisfactory authorization.

Start date

Friday, January 1, 2027 and the application deadline is Thursday, November 5, 2026.

Employment interviews are expected to be held Friday, November 13, 2026.

About the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Department (BUA)

BUA is a department under Psychiatry in the Central Denmark Region. We conduct multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children and youths from 0-18 (21) years with mental illness and developmental disorders. In assessment and treatment we also involve the patient’s family, network, possibly other hospital departments and municipalities in the region.

BUA consists of 4 inpatient units and 8 clinical units distributed in Skejby, Viborg and Gødstrup, as well as a research unit and a medical secretary unit in Skejby. The majority of the treatment is outpatient. BUA covers four main areas: Infants, School-aged children, Adolescents and Eating disorders. The staff consists of doctors, nurses, psychologists, social educators, social workers and others.

The department received in 2025 5,212 external referrals and had contact with about 9,500 unique CPR numbers. In 2025 the department had a net budget of 330 million DKK and as of 1/12-2025 571 full-time equivalents distributed over 634 employees.

The position is in principle a full-time position.

As Region Midtjylland continually implements savings and reorganizations, employees in reallocation who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Midtjylland is, in accordance with the EU transparency directive on wages, which took effect June 7, 2026, obliged to inform you of the starting salary or a range of starting salary for a position before offering employment.

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