Chief Bioanalyst for Nuclear Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital

Are you an experienced leader with strong professional excellence, strategic outlook, and ambitions on behalf of both employees and the department? Are you motivated by creating direction, development and good conditions for high professional quality in balance with operations, research and education? And are you also adept at maintaining an overview in a complex organization? Then you may be our new Chief Bioanalyst at Aarhus University Hospital's (AUH) Nuclear Medicine.

About the position

As Chief Bioanalyst you will be part of the department management together with the chief physician and the chair professor. You share responsibility for the department's operation, development and strategic direction and for creating coherence between patient treatment, research and education.

You contribute with a strong bioanalyst professional perspective in the joint management and you will play a central role in the professional and organizational development of the department. At the same time, you will help create good conditions for the staff and ensure that strategic ambitions can be translated into a well-functioning everyday life.

Nuclear Medicine employs many professional groups, and a central leadership task will be to create coherence and a common direction across the department’s professions. You also contribute to cross-cutting collaboration at AUH – regionally, nationally and internationally – and have an eye for new paths and opportunities for the department with a focus on the best possible patient pathway.

Your areas of responsibility

You will among other things be responsible for

• ensuring high professional quality and stable operations with a view to prioritization and good use of resources
• exercising visible and engaging staff leadership for the function leader group and staff with a focus on well-being, working environment and competence development
• actively contributing to the department's strategic development and translating strategic goals into concrete initiatives
• creating coherence between the department's operations, research, education and development
• strengthening collaboration across the department, the hospital and the region.

Competencies and documented experience

It is a requirement that you are a licensed bioanalyst and have documented experience with personnel leadership and with developing employees and teams.

In addition, we emphasize that you

• have experience with strategic work and with translating strategic goals into action
• have experience with or a good understanding of navigating in a complex, politically led organization with many stakeholders
• have an understanding of health economics, administration and the governance framework in the health sector
• have an interest in the development of the bioanalyst field
• preferably have solid professional insight within nuclear medicine

Personal attributes

As a leader we particularly value that you

• are relationship-building and inclusive. You create followership through presence, trust and genuine interest in staff and other professional perspectives.
• are clear and direction-setting. You communicate clearly, create common direction and are able to make decisions and create predictability – even when there are different interests and considerations.
• are development-oriented and curious. You see new possibilities and have the courage to constructively challenge conventional thinking, culture and existing ways of working.
• are holistic and have organizational overview. You stand secure in your leadership and can navigate complexity and balance different considerations without losing direction.

About AUH

AUH is an internationally recognized and highly specialized university hospital with strong professional environments and close cooperation with Aarhus University and international partners. Here, more than 12,000 employees work in strong communities across disciplines, and as a leader you get a clear role in strengthening collaboration, direction and quality.

We develop the health care of tomorrow together with our partners and actively work for equality of mental and physical illnesses, strengthened sector collaboration and patient-centered solutions. We are an attractive workplace with a focus on development through research, education and innovation. With us you will have the opportunity to influence AUH’s development and contribute to a cohesive health system.

Nuclear Medicine at AUH

Nuclear Medicine at AUH performs diagnostics and treatment using clinical physiological and nuclear medicine methods. The department carries out tasks at main function, regional function and highly specialized function levels in accordance with the Health Authority’s specialty plan for clinical physiology and nuclear medicine.

The department has about 140 staff, where the bioanalysts constitute the largest professional group. In addition, the department includes doctors, chemists, physicists, medical secretaries, radiographers and electronics technicians and has three professors. This creates a strong multidisciplinary environment around the department’s clinical tasks, research, education and development. Annually, the department handles about 17,000 patient contacts and performs about 33,000 examinations.

We offer

As Chief Bioanalyst you will hold a central position in a large, highly specialized and multidisciplinary department where clinical operations, research, education and development are closely interconnected. You will have the opportunity to make a clear impact on the department’s development.

You will become part of a department management team where collaboration, trust and shared responsibility are fundamental values, and where you will have substantial influence on the professional and organizational direction.

As a leader at AUH you will gain access to leadership development, sparring and professional networks. When you start as department head at AUH, you will receive a tailored onboarding program based on your experience, your needs and the leadership role you undertake.

Terms of employment, application and start date

As department head at AUH you report to the health and hospital leadership and are part of the hospital’s overall management structure. You can read more about your formal responsibilities, tasks and powers in AUH Leadership Model and the job description for leaders in Region Midtjylland .

Salaries and terms of employment are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. Please send your application, CV and relevant documents to the health and hospital leadership at AUH via the link in the advertisement.

Start date is 1 January 2027. The application deadline is 2 November 2026.

The first interview round will be held on 12 November, and the second interview round on 24 November. In the period between the two interview rounds, a person profile will be prepared, and you will receive individual feedback. At the second interview you may also be presented with a leadership case which we expect you to solve as part of the interview.

If you have questions about the position, you are very welcome to contact the medical director Charlotte Birkmose Rotbøl at [email protected] / tel. 22 11 02 07 or Chief Physician in Nuclear Medicine Ate Haraldsen at [email protected] / tel. 60 89 87 08.

The position is, as a rule, a full-time position.

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

Region Midtjylland is, pursuant to the EU Transparency Directive, which took effect on 7 June 2026, obliged to inform you of the starting salary or a salary interval for a position before offering employment.

Here you will find Region Midtjylland's salary catalog for most job groups and positions found in Region Midtjylland: Transparency before employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk