At Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Department of Gastrointestinal Diseases, Surgical Section, there is a position as a specialist physician available for appointment on 1 May 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

We have a position available and are seeking a specialist in surgery with a particular interest in colorectal surgery.

The applicant will belong to our lower surgical team. The team handles elective diagnostics and treatment of patients with benign and malignant colorectal disorders. The applicant will participate in on-call with presence and through this function have close cooperation with the Emergency Team, and the patient pathways managed there. Finally, surgeons from the lower and upper teams collaborate closely regarding the admitted patients.

The colorectal team has a highly specialized function for advanced pelvic surgery (primary as well as recurrent), CRS surgery, advanced fistulas, sphincter reconstruction, and anal cancer. Routine co-operations with other surgical specialties are performed, just as there is close collaboration with the Cancer Diseases Department, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital for the investigation, treatment and evaluation of patients with anal cancer.

The colorectal team consists of 9 senior physicians and one specialist. Day surgery with uncomplicated primary proctological procedures is performed both at the Herlev and Gentofte sites, while more advanced surgical procedures are performed only at the Herlev site, including robot-assisted surgery. Herlev Hospital has for many years had a well-established robot center and robot surgery is routinely used by the colorectal team for selected elective patients.

There are several clinical lectureships and often more doctors attached to research positions. You will work in close collaboration with the other 10 surgeons within colorectal surgery regarding the investigation and treatment of the overall patient group.

The department has access to 8.5 beds/week (3 robots and 5.5 others) for lower patients and 2 beds/week for proctological problems. The colorectal team’s doctors support the acute operation shifts as needed. The operating shifts are distributed among the team’s specialists, aiming for an even distribution with respect to outpatient diagnostics, surgery, on-call duties, and ward rounds.

The applicant will join as one of the department’s other specialists in on-call coverage. The department has a large number of training doctors and the applicant will be required to participate in supervision and education of these, as well as ensuring operations in the outpatient clinic, ward rounds, and on the operating shifts at one of Region H’s largest surgical departments. In addition to surgical qualifications, emphasis will be placed on qualifications within team leadership, teaching, communication and collaborative skills within the team, across specialties and departments.

The Department of Stomach, Intestines and Liver Diseases has about 350 staff, of whom 90 are doctors. The department is organized into 5 teams: Emergency Surgery, Upper Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Medical Gastroenterology and Endoscopy. The department covers an intake area of 425,000 inhabitants and has 3 wards with a total of 71 beds, distributed across a surgical, an acute surgical and a gastro-medical ward.

The department has 4 professors and significant research activity, including long-term effects after cancer surgery, acute surgery, advanced endoscopy, colorectal surgery, hepatology, palliation for gastro-medical patients, chronic inflammatory bowel diseases and surgical pathophysiology. We collaborate nationally and internationally.

We offer

• Employment in a highly specialized team with high ambitions for standardized treatment, education and research at an international level, with high volume across the entire surgical spectrum.
• Employment in a department with a large pre- and post-graduate educational mission. We seek to meet individual educational needs aimed at fulfilling both work and career desires.
• A targeted focus on designing acute and elective patient pathways with patient safety and quality as guiding principles.
• A daily life in a department with a good working environment with a focus on meaningful cross-disciplinary collaboration across subspecialties and professional boundaries, knowledge and experience base.

We expect that you

• Are a specialist in Surgery
• Are subspecialized or wish to subspecialize within colorectal surgery
• Are interested in teaching and supervision. Experience with research or working with clinical guidelines will be weighed
• Are committed to creating high quality in patient pathways in collaboration with other staff groups
• In collaboration with the department’s other specialists and the department leadership, help ensure the department’s research, development and pre/post graduate teaching at national and international levels
• Collaborate on patient treatment and pathways cross-disciplinary and with patient involvement as a natural focal point

The department physician will be employed in the colorectal team with organizational placement under the lead physician for elective and cancer surgery as immediate supervisor.

About the position

The work functions are primarily in the outpatient clinic, on the ward and in the operating room with responsibility for the broad spectrum of patients within colorectal patient pathways. In addition, the applicant will be part of the on-call team with a two-shift presence on duty. In the evening, night and weekend shifts there are, in addition to the on-call, 2 on-call priests and 2 mid-shift on-call staff in on-site duty and an on-call senior physician.

Employment terms

Questions about the position, application procedure, employment terms and the like can be addressed to Chief Physician Vibeke Parner ([email protected]). Questions about the professional content of the position, career opportunities within colorectal surgery at our department and the like can be addressed to Lead Senior Physician Jakob Lykke ([email protected])

Application deadline and process The application deadline is December 3, 2026. In the application please address each of the seven competencies that the physician role contains.

Employment interviews are expected in the week following the application deadline.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Reference material

• Job description
• Values for leadership in the Region Capital
• Hospital’s ambition “Well treated”
• Focus areas for the Region Capital
• Region Capital’s leadership policy
• Region Capital’s Hospital Plan

IT IS ABOUT LIFE About bringing life into the world, saving lives and improving life. It is also about creating coherence and security for patients, so they feel well treated.

At Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Region Hovedstaden’s largest acute hospital, you enter a world of opportunities and diversity with room for your ambitions. You become part of something bigger – research and treatment of international class – a strong professional environment where we keep a finger on the pulse and make each other better.

You will get a meaningful job, because it is about life.

Facts

• Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is the region’s largest acute hospital with 6,500 employees
• Each year there are 845,000 outpatient visits, 114,000 inpatient episodes, 34,000 operations
• The hospital has 26 clinical departments
• The hospital has an activity budget of 5.1 billion DKK