Chief Consultant for a part-time position between the Research Unit and OPUS at the Department of Psychoses, Aarhus University Hospital.

We are seeking a senior consultant for the Research Unit, with a partial clinical appointment in OPUS.

It is required that you are a board-certified psychiatrist, that you have broad research experience, have documented research training and are research-active. In addition, academic qualifications such as associate professorship and leadership experience are valued.

In the Department of Psychoses (AFP) we have an ambition to improve the quality of patient pathways and to integrate research and clinical work. The vision is that a cross-cutting central function between the Research Unit and the clinical work will help strengthen collaboration, expand opportunities in both areas and improve patient pathways with more continuity and coherence.

The position is therefore aimed at combining Research Leadership with active participation in both research and clinical work in AFP.

If you find this inspiring and you would like to engage in such a role, we look forward to receiving your application.

We are seeking a psychiatrist with psychosis experience and leadership experience. It is important that you are good at communicating with patients, relatives, colleagues and collaborators. We emphasise that you have an interest in interdisciplinary collaboration and a desire to actively contribute with your professional expertise in the specialist clinician group as well as take part in education and teaching in the department.

In such a cross-cutting function there will be opportunities to compose an exciting and varied everyday life with many different tasks while maintaining close multidisciplinary relationships, in addition to contributing to creating new ones. Not least is the goal that, with more clinic-near research, we will be able to offer patients valuable improvements in their care pathways and treatment.

The senior consultant’s tasks in the clinical function will be diagnostic assessment and treatment of patients at a high professional level with a focus on complexity. There will be collegial sparring and active participation in supervision and sparring with the team, psychopathological and somatic differential diagnoses, responsibility for treatment plans and medical treatment as well as collaboration with patients and relatives.

There is cross-disciplinary work with a focus on good patient pathways in the collaboration between doctors, nurses, social and health assistants, pedagogues, occupational and physiotherapists, clinical psychologists, social workers and medical secretaries. There are doctors in training and often also a psychologist in training to become a specialist psychologist.

The position is immediately also attached to on-call duties, as well as other tasks in AFP may occur.

You will report to the chief physician.

As head of the Research Unit you will in collaboration with the department management perform the leadership function and work to strengthen the department’s professional development as well as support the clinically oriented research. There may be mentoring tasks, research communication and teaching, liaison work in connection with clinical research projects as well as opportunities for independent research projects.

We offer you a workplace with emphasis on

• High professional standards and treatment in interdisciplinary collaboration and in cooperation with the patient and relatives
• High professional standards in the specialist clinician group
• Teamwork and interdisciplinarity, where we share responsibility for difficult treatment tasks together
• Active participation in research, projects and development of the research environment at all levels in collaboration with the research unit and clinical staff
• Strong focus on employees’ well-being, the working environment and safety
• Opportunity for both professional and personal development in the job, depending on your ambitions and the department’s needs, with particular emphasis on professional sparring, supervision and further education
• Strong collaboration with somatics for the benefit of both patients and staff
• Openness to individual wishes and ideas for developing both clinical leadership competences
• High prioritisation of the education and learning environment for all professional groups

About the Department of Psychoses

The Department of Psychoses handles the assessment of adult patients across the entire ICD-10 spectrum. The department treats especially patients within the schizophrenic and psychotic areas as well as patients with dementia, delirium, intellectual disability, ADHD, autism and substance-induced states. The department has regional functions.

The department is located at Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby and administratively part of Psychiatry in the Central Denmark Region. The department has more than 350 staff and is led by Chief Nurse Bente Sand Isager and Chief Physician Marie Behrndtz Brandsborg.

The department comprises three inpatient wards with 24 beds each. One of the wards is an acute ward with 13 beds and a rehabilitation ward with 11 beds.  The Department of Psychoses also has three outpatient clinics: Psychiatric Clinic 1 with a Team for Psychoses and a Team for Organic Psychiatric Disorders as well as a diagnostic unit and Psychiatric Clinic 2 with Team for Schizophrenia – OPUS and Team for ADHD as well as Team for Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment (TIB).

The Research Unit is a large, well-functioning and active research unit with multidisciplinary research projects in both basic research and clinical research projects. The Department of Psychoses has research and teaching obligations and participates in the clinical teaching of medical students and doctors as well as psychologists in training for specialist psychologists. There are training programs for doctors in the specialties of adult psychiatry and general practice. At times there may be training doctors from areas such as social medicine or emergency medicine.

Medical assessment

Medical assessment is carried out based on the applicant’s information within the seven physician roles. Please note that the answer must be entered as part of the electronic application procedure.

In the position as senior consultant you will participate in on-site on-call duties with subsequent standby duty consisting of 5 weekday shifts and 2 weekend shifts over 20 weeks.

Function description: Job and function description for clinical senior consultant in the Department of Psychoses Function description for the head of department – see the attached appendix.

Salary and employment according to applicable collective agreement.

If you would like to hear more about the department and the job, you are very welcome to contact Chief Physician Marie Brandsborg at telephone 4012 9253 You can read much more about the Department of Psychoses on our website;  https://www.psykiatrien.rm.dk/klinikker-og-sengeafsnit/aarhus universitetshospital-psykiatrien/afdeling-for-psykoser/

The position is requested to be filled on 01.12.2026 or by agreement. Employment is in accordance with the collective agreement. Application deadline: 2.11.2026

Interview scheduling will take place in week 45.

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

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

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

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