Area Manager for Home and Nursing Care, Area of Holbæk Municipality

Do you want to lead holistic care with patient autonomy, trust and presence?

Holbæk Municipality is seeking Area Manager for Home Care and Nursing, Area Land

As Area Manager and as head of seven district managers, you will have the opportunity to stand clearly in your own leadership space, succeed in close partnership, and help create a home care and nursing service that makes a noticeable difference for citizens.

The Home Care and Nursing Service in Holbæk Municipality is organized into two areas: City and Rural. As Area Manager for Area Land you will have overall management responsibility for a geographically dispersed organization across 5 sites. You must set a clear direction and ensure that good citizen journeys, stable operations, high professional quality, financial responsibility and a sustainable working environment go hand in hand.

You will become the manager of managers and you have responsibility for creating the necessary frameworks, priorities and the managerial leeway so that the districts can succeed with their tasks and take responsibility for daily operations and development.

You will be part of the strategic management group in Elderly and Health with a total of 7 area managers and a chief. The Area Manager for Area City will be your closest managerial partner, and together with the other leadership group you must ensure a common direction, strong coherence and holistic solutions.

Shared compass – Holbæk Municipality’s Citizens’ Vision

Holbæk Municipality’s citizen view starts from the premise that citizens and their networks are active participants. We base ourselves on strengths and resources, meet citizens with respect and curiosity, strive for dialogue, and work across boundaries. Citizens must experience a unified municipality.

From citizens’ view to everyday life – hand in hand with the Elderly Act

The citizen view should not only be legible. It should be tangible. In the way we meet the citizen, in the professional choices we make, and in how help is coordinated. As Area Manager you must create the framework for the citizen’s wishes, resources and self-determination to have real significance in everyday life – even when the solution requires us to cross professional boundaries, organizational borders and collaborate with civil society.

At the same time you must contribute to Holbæk Municipality’s overall ambition to be a good place to be for citizens and employees. In home care and nursing you must pay particular attention to high quality and coherence for citizens, sustainable frameworks and development opportunities for employees, as well as professional collaborations both internally and externally.

Leadership partnership - duo leadership

Home care and nursing must hang together, even when geography and daily operations differ. Therefore, you must be able to engage in a close, equal and binding partnership with the Area City area manager. You will share knowledge, coordinate priorities and solutions and a common direction that runs across. You each have your own area’s responsibility and mandate, but you share responsibility for the overall home care and nursing.

Your primary tasks

• Translate the Elderly Act, holistic care, health reform and citizens’ view into concrete leadership and daily practice with the citizen’s self-determination and a good workplace at the center.
• Ensure stable operations with high professional quality, patient safety, legal compliance and timely financial follow-up.
• Be clear and visible and work purposefully for a good and healthy work environment.
• Develop a strong leadership team that dares to lead, prioritize and take responsibility close to operations.
• Make cross-functional collaboration work in practice, so the citizen experiences coherence rather than organizational boundaries.
• Enhance recruitment, retention, attendance and competences.
• Use data, inspections, incidents and feedback for learning and improvement.
• Develop professional collaborations with civil society, suppliers, the region, educational institutions and other stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an ambitious, clear and strategic leader who can and will take on leadership. You set direction, create followers, can translate goals and reform requirements into concrete practice. You have an eye for quality, economy, working environment and results and can balance when considerations pull in different directions.

You do not need to have answers to everything. But you must be curious enough to ask, brave enough to decide and persistent enough to follow through on decisions. You meet people with respect and curiosity and are focused on understanding perspectives before choosing a solution. You are also a generous and robust collaborative partner who wants to succeed together with others – with district managers, your partner in Area City and the rest of the strategic leadership group, other core areas, etc.

Who are you?

Your educational background may vary. The crucial thing is that you have professional depth, leadership experience and can stand confidently in a complex municipal world. We imagine that you:

• Have a relevant health- or social-professional education and a leadership education at diploma level or equivalent
• Have experience in leading other leaders or are ready for the next leadership level
• Have experience with financial management, quality, working environment and organizational changes
• Have good communication skills and communicate respectfully, curiously and clearly with citizens, employees and partners.

What you’ll get with us

With us you don’t just get responsibility for a large operation. You also get the opportunity to leave your mark on how the future Home Care and Nursing should look in Holbæk Municipality. You will become part of a close leadership community with the Area City area manager and will also participate in a binding collaboration with the strategic leadership group, which consists of seven leaders and the head of Elderly and Health.

You will have a boss who expects challenge, accountability and open dialogue, as well as capable leaders and employees with extensive knowledge about citizens, the profession and local communities. You will be part of an organization with a clear citizen view and a common ambition for citizens, employees and businesses, and we will work hard to ensure you receive a thorough introduction.

Shall we have an informal chat?

If you want to hear more about the assignment, the citizens’ view, the leadership partnership and our expectations, you are welcome to contact:

• Head of Elderly and Health Charlotte Larsen at telephone 72 36 50 87
• Area Leader for Home Care and Nursing, Area City, Minja B. Tobiassen at telephone 72 36 57 26

Practical

Application deadline: 11 November 2026

First interview: 19 and 20 November 2026

Second interview: 3 December 2026

Between the first and second interview, tests will be conducted. You will be notified about this in more detail.

Start date: 1 February 2027.

Job profile

Citizens’ Vision

Holbæk Municipality’s website

Holbæk Municipality focuses on creating an attractive workplace in home care.

To prevent work-related injuries, Raizer lifting chairs, Vendlet and ceiling lifts are natural aids in care.

Permanent helpers and assistants have their own iPad and smartphone as documentation tools. Substitutes and students have personal smartphones.

As part of the rehabilitation effort, welfare technology is prioritized. For example, digital training is used in home care and visits can be delivered via screen.

We are 4,800 engaged colleagues who every day work to provide good service and welfare for our approximately 75,000 residents in Holbæk Municipality. Together we bring our various professional disciplines into play and create solutions that make a real difference.

We place great emphasis on a good working environment and on developing our employees – both professionally and personally.

In Holbæk Municipality we actively promote diverse workplaces where there is room for difference. All qualified applicants are therefore encouraged to apply for the position - regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, political or religious beliefs or sexual orientation.

Holbæk Municipality’s personnel policy sets the framework for our values and the way we meet each other and the citizens.

Read more about what it’s like to work in Holbæk Municipality .