Chief Nurse, Dialysis Clinic

Chief Nurse with a focus on visible and ambitious leadership

An exciting leadership position is available in the Dialysis Clinic at Region Hospitalet Gødstrup. We are seeking a Chief Nurse to start on 1 December 2026 or by agreement. You will become part of a strong leadership team and have the opportunity to influence development in a department that has set the bar high for professionalism, quality, staff well-being and collaboration.

We expect a Chief Nurse who, with their professional and personal qualifications, can lead in the operation, development and profiling of the Dialysis Clinic. As a leader you must set the framework and direction for nursing in a highly specialized field.

As Chief Nurse you share the management responsibility in the Dialysis Clinic with the leading consultant. Together you lead a dialysis clinic with 36 hemodialysis beds and 48 committed nurses, where high professional quality, development and staff well-being go hand in hand.

You will play a central role in the continued development of the hemodialysis area and must ensure direction, coherence and strong patient pathways in collaboration with the Chief Physician and the Chief Nurse in the Department of Nephrology and Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases as well as the Kidney Disease Clinic. Additionally, you will be an active part of the Medical Department's overall leadership team, contributing to both strategic development and daily operations of the department in close interaction with the Department Management and other department leaders.

Currently our focus is on the new health reform, where the health service must come closer to the citizen, including through closer cooperation between authorities. The health reform will impose new requirements on us as a hospital, and as a leader you will play an important role in the transformation work to adapt our workflows to the new health system framework.

Dialysis Clinic

In the clinic we provide treatment and care for patients with acute and chronic kidney disease. Most of the patients are chronically ill in long, often complex courses, and we also provide hemodialysis treatment for patients with acute needs, including patients in Intensive Care.

Patients dialyze on day and evening shifts. In addition, we train suitable patients to perform hemodialysis at home. Patient involvement is a central focus area.

The staff group consists of nurses with different professional and personal strengths, and a large part have been part of the clinic for many years. We focus on professional development and continuously work on various development and research projects. Together with the work with Fundamentals of Care (FoC) this contributes to developing nursing practice and strengthening the quality of nursing.

The working environment is characterized by good team spirit, where openness, humor and respect for each other are part of everyday life.

The managerial tasks

• Operations management with planning and organization of the staffing resources in the Dialysis Clinic and ensuring optimal capacity utilization.
• Drive professional development and quality development in the clinic based on the improvement model and ongoing work with improvements.
• Personnel management including conducting performance reviews (MUS), recruitment interviews, attendance conversations, etc.
• Member of the clinic's management team and contribute to the strategic and organizational development of the Dialysis Clinic and across the Medical Department.
• Hold internal and external meetings and forums and close collaboration in the TRIO group as the work environment leader.
• Engage in dialogue and collaboration with chronically ill patients about their needs and perspectives.
• Maintain the good culture and a good working environment.

Profile

• Nursing background and ideally familiarity with the nephrology specialty or another medical specialty.
• Leadership education at diploma or master's level is an advantage, but not a requirement if you have solid leadership experience and are ready to start relevant education.
• Thinks analytically and strategically with a view to the whole, is curious and creative in development approaches and can grasp new ideas, create engagement around them and bring them safely from idea to practice.
• Is a visible and presence-rich leader who is aware of their own leadership foundation and values, and who creates direction, trust and followers through authentic leadership.
• Talent for making everyday work function across disciplines and sectors through a visible and inspiring presence and open and respectful communication.
• A personality with an open, trust-building and friendly demeanor, who cares about their staff both as a whole and as individuals.
• Must ensure a high mutual information level both for the clinic's staff and for other partners.
• Has and can create overview and prevent critical situations.
• Can engage in dialogue, listen and reflect, be perceptive, honest and respectful.

And we offer

• A fantastic workplace where the framework is set for appropriate patient pathways and high staff well-being.
• A workplace with a high professional level and a skilled staff, where there are good collegial relationships and structured collaboration and sparring with the department's other leaders.
• A central role in the further development and profiling of the nephrology specialty.
• An exciting and challenging leadership role where days at work are never the same.
• To become part of a leadership group where we collectively strive to create the best possible conditions for the department's staff and patients.
• A position with room to work with your own goals for the clinic.
• Ongoing competency development.
• A workplace with a good learning environment.
• A workplace where we always set the bar high and dare to have high ambitions.

Job description and role description

We prioritize a good onboarding, and therefore in the first month of employment there will be additional leadership support and sparring available to ensure a safe and well-structured introduction.

If you want to know more about the position or visit the department, you are very welcome to contact Chief Nurse Bodil Overgaard at phone 3065 0857 or by email: [email protected]

You can read more about Regionshospitalet Gødstrup and the Medical Department at https://www.regionshospitalet-goedstrup.dk/

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Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement.

Region Central Denmark is, in accordance with the EU’s directive on transparency of pay, which came into force on 7 June 2026, obliged to inform you of starting salary or a salary range for a position before you are offered employment. Here you will find Region Central Denmark's salary catalog for most professional groups and positions found in Region Central Denmark: Transparency prior to employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk

In the employment procedure, personality testing will be used.

We look forward to receiving your application no later than Sunday 18 October 2026.

Interviews will be held Monday 26 October.

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