Chief Midwife at Rigshospitalet's Maternity Ward

Juliane Marie Centre

Would you like to be part of the team on Rigshospitalet's maternity ward?

We are a dynamic place with highly specialized obstetrics, professionalism and a persistent focus on wellbeing

Our maternity ward is characterized by strong professionalism, open atmosphere and plenty of discussions across professions.

As a department lead midwife with us you have a central role on our maternity ward, both professionally and in planning. You are professionally strong, have strong social skills and are committed to everyone having a good shift in a complex daily life.

We have a strong focus on the working environment and maintain a good tone, care for each other and an informal and friendly manner.

We are looking for

• 1 department lead midwife for a permanent position of 32-37 hours per week with employment from 1.12.2026 or as agreed.

We are focused on strengthening the clinical expertise in the clinic and creating good opportunities for supervision and sparring for our basic midwives. 2 department lead midwives therefore work day shifts every weekday, One of the department lead midwives primarily covers the maternity ward, while the other has a more flexible set of tasks both on the maternity ward and at the birth intake. In addition, the department lead midwives most often handle the coordination task in our birth intake

Department of Gynaecology, Fertility and Births

Rigshospitalet handles about 25% of the Region Hovedstaden's births, corresponding to about 5,500 births per year. In addition to uncomplicated births, we handle treatment, counseling, care and birth services for a number of highly specialized functions, including diabetes, heart disease, immunized as well as births of extremely preterm infants. Obstetrics also has a family unit for healthy postnatal families, a postnatal ward with 22 beds and a unit for vulnerable postnatal patients and an in-house birth clinic.

The birth department is organizationally divided into a delivery and emergency intake, an induction unit, nine birthing suites, a birth clinic with 6-700 births, an IPT unit and a midwifery ward with 10 beds.

There is presence of a department lead midwife around the clock.

The department has research and educational commitments and interests. The Obstetric Clinic is responsible for educating about 80 midwifery students per year. We educate midwifery students at all levels of education.

We have a well-functioning introductory program, the Grønhjerte program, for our newly graduated midwives

Department meetings are held about every 6 weeks as part of the standard working hours

Primo 2028 we move into Mary Elizabeth Hospital, which is an ambitious, visionary and modern hospital, located next to our current site.

We offer

• Thorough introduction
• a dynamic and professionally strong birth place
• an fantastic staff group
• inspirational interdisciplinary collaboration
• team meetings in smaller units
• obstetric training and teaching
• present and trust-based leadership

You have

• broad diverse experience, from a specialized department and be strongly professionally anchored
• a talent for communication and guidance
• strong social skills
• ability to analyze, reflect and act on complex issues
• ability to be flexible, change-ready and have good collaboration skills
• capacity to thrive coordinating and juggling many balls
• capabilities to maintain an overview in a large and busy department
• preferably further education at diploma, master or candidate level
• willingness to take on leadership tasks in operations

Department lead midwife's duties

• to provide professional guidance and be a sparring partner for midwives and doctors
• to have an overview of the patients in the department in relation to resources,
• to undertake leadership tasks during on-call shifts and work closely with the deputy chief midwives in daily life
• administrative tasks, including on-call coverage in case of acute illness during shifts
• actively participate in further developing a good working environment both mono- and interdisciplinary.

The department lead midwives work in on-site shifts of 12 hours (day and night) and every third weekend.

Application deadline: 6.11.2026

Interviews in week 46

If you would like further information about the position, you can contact

Deputy Chief Midwife Lise Jul Scharff 35451339

Salary and employment terms are set in accordance with the current agreement for non-managerial occupational therapists, physiotherapists and midwives entered into between the Midwives Association and the Regions’ Pay and Tariff Board.

Apply for the position via the link

Positions at Juliane Marie Centre are covered by the regulations on obtaining a child welfare clearance. It is therefore a prerequisite for employment that you have a clear child welfare clearance . The Centre obtains the child welfare clearance from the Police, with the applicant’s consent.

Rigshospitalet is a smoke-free workplace.

Rigshospitalet is part of the Region Hovedstaden.