Chief Physician for Psychiatric Center Ballerup at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup seeks a chief physician who, together with two chief nurses, will form the centre's new three-part department management. The department management has the joint overarching responsibility for the centre's operation, professionalism, quality, well-being and strategic development.

Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup is facing a major organizational and professional change. The ambition is to create a stronger and more coherent psychiatric centre, where outpatient treatment, acute care and inpatient care function more as a unified treatment offer. This should provide better continuity in patient pathways and strengthen the professional quality and interdisciplinary collaboration.

The new department management will have a central task in shaping the centre's future and creating a common direction and following in a large and complex organization. We are therefore looking for an experienced leader with strong strategic and organizational understanding, who can help translate the ambitions into concrete results.

About Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup

Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup is a large psychiatric centre with a broad remit for assessment, treatment and care of adults with mental illnesses. The centre serves about 350,000 residents and currently employs about 700 staff, a 24-hour open emergency reception, 157 inpatient beds and an extensive outpatient operation.

The centre houses both inpatient wards, acute services and outpatient functions, including F-ACT and OPUS. We work purposefully with quality and patient safety, prevention of coercion, and integrated patient pathways. Interdisciplinary collaboration and the development of employees' clinical competencies are central parts of the work.

With the new organization, the general psychiatric functions in Ballerup are gathered under one common department management, while a number of specialized functions are organizationally gathered at the Psychotherapeutic Centre Stolpegård. This provides new opportunities to create closer coherence between outpatient treatment and inpatient care and to strengthen collaboration on the patients' overall pathways.

The new Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup will build on existing professional competencies and at the same time develop a common organization with strong leadership, high treatment quality and good conditions for staff and leaders.

The position

As chief physician you will be part of a three-part department management, where you, together with the two chief nurses, share a close and binding joint responsibility for the centre's overall operation, professionalism and strategic development.

You will have special responsibility for the medical quality and for ensuring a high professional level in treatment. At the same time, you contribute your skills and perspectives to the department management's shared task.

We want a department management with complementary competencies. The concrete task and responsibility allocation will be defined based on the overall management task and the three leaders' competencies.

The position includes among other things

• To ensure stable operation, high treatment quality, patient safety, economy and a good working environment, as well as to support medical and multidisciplinary development
• To shape the new organization and strengthen the coherence between outpatient treatment, acute services and inpatient care based on patients' needs
• To develop the centre's leadership organization and support leaders in creating direction, collaboration and professional development across wards and functions
• To identify and develop relevant research areas with a basis in the centre's general psychiatric tasks and strengthen the interaction between research, education and clinical practice
• To ensure close collaboration with the Psychotherapeutic Centre Stolpegård and strengthen the collaboration with the hospital's somatic departments on new possibilities for cross-specialty treatment

The work ranges from strategic leadership tasks to concrete organizational and clinical issues.

About you

You are a specialist in psychiatry or another medical specialty and have substantial leadership experience, including documented experience in leading through other leaders. You have a strong professional foundation and can translate ambitions into results in a complex health care organization.

We emphasize that you

• have strong strategic and organizational understanding and can lead major changes while ensuring stable operation
• can create direction, trust and followership in a large organization and develop good collaboration across management levels and professional groups
• have high professional ambitions and can support quality, patient safety and development of clinical treatment, including creating good conditions for research and education
• are a clear, open and inclusive leader who prioritizes well-being, staff involvement and a good working environment
• thrive in close and binding joint leadership and take responsibility for the whole and the common decisions in the department management

We would like you to have gained experience and education in leadership, e.g. through a relevant regional leadership development program or other leadership education, possibly at master’s level.

What you will be a part of

Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is one of Denmark’s largest acute hospitals and one of the country’s national cancer centers. We have a range of highly specialized functions in both psychiatry and somatics, a large research environment and an extensive educational task. We treat patients in acute, specialized and planned pathways and have activities on several sites.

We are a university hospital with ambitions to develop treatment through research, education and strong professional environments. With psychiatry and somatics gathered at the hospital, we also have new possibilities to create better coherence for patients and strengthen collaboration and learning across specialties.

We collaborate closely across the hospital and with municipalities, general practice and the region on the development of the health service and on translating the health reform into new solutions for patients and citizens.

As chief physician you will, together with the other department management, be part of the hospital management, where the executive management and department management together set the direction for the hospital's development. This gives you the opportunity to shape the development of Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup and contribute to the hospital's overall development.

We can offer you

• A central role in building the new Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup
• A large and complex clinical organization with strong professional competencies and high ambitions for treatment and quality
• A place in both the centre's department management and HGH's overall hospital management

Practical information

The position is available for occupation on 1 January 2027 or by agreement.

Salary and terms of employment

You will be employed on contract terms under the framework agreement on contract employment of medical chiefs, entered into with the Association of Specialists and the Regions’ Salary and Tariff Committee.

Further information about the position

If you would like further information, you are very welcome to contact vice director René Priess at telephone 21 64 83 54 or chief nurse Joy Mikkelsen at tel. 20866512

Application deadline and process

The application deadline is 22 November 2026. You submit your application via the advertisement link on this page.

The first interview round is expected to be held on 30 November 2026.

The second interview round is expected to be held on 9 December 2026.

Applicants who advance to the second interview round will complete a personality profiling test. This is done electronically, and it is expected that personal feedback will be provided in week 49.

Since professional assessment constitutes a separate part of the employment process, please address each of the seven competencies that the physician role contains in your application. The purpose of the professional assessment is to assess whether the applicant possesses the necessary professional competencies as stated in the job description for the respective position, cf. the Region Hovedstaden’s guidelines 'Professional assessment of applicants for senior physician positions' of December 12, 2019.

All inquiries will be treated confidentially.

Reference material

• Job description
• Milestones for good leadership
• Hospital’s ambition “Well treated”
• Target picture for Region Hovedstaden
• Region Hovedstaden’s leadership framework
• Region Hovedstaden’s Hospital Plan