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 operations, professionalism, quality, well-being, and strategic development.

The Psychiatric Centre Ballerup is facing a major organizational and professional change. The aim is to create a stronger and more coherent psychiatric centre where outpatient treatment, acute services, and inpatient care function more as a single treatment offering. This should provide better continuity in patient pathways and strengthen the clinical quality and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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

About Psychiatric Centre Ballerup

The Psychiatric Centre Ballerup is a large psychiatric centre with a broad mandate for assessment, treatment and care of adults with mental health illnesses. The centre serves around 350,000 residents and today has about 700 employees, a 24-hour open emergency reception, 157 bed units and an extensive outpatient operation.

The centre houses 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. The multidisciplinary 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 Psychiatric Centre Stolpegård. This creates new opportunities to create closer coherence between outpatient treatment and inpatient care and to strengthen collaboration on patients' overall pathways.

The new Psychiatric Centre Ballerup will build on the existing professional competencies and at the same time develop a common organization with strong leadership, high treatment quality, and good conditions for employees and managers.

About the position

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

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

We want a department management with complementary competencies. The specific task and responsibility distribution will be determined based on the overall leadership task and the three leaders' competencies.

The position includes among other things

• To ensure stable operations, high treatment quality, patient safety, economy and a good working environment and to support medical and interdisciplinary 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 based on 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 cooperation with the hospital's somatic departments on new possibilities for treatment across specialties

The work ranges from strategic management tasks to concrete organizational and clinical problems.

About you

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

We emphasize that you

• have strong strategic and organizational understanding and can lead major changes while ensuring stable operations
• can create direction, trust and followership in a large organization and develop good collaboration across management levels and professions
• 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, employee involvement and a good working environment
• thrive with close and binding shared leadership and take responsibility for the whole and the shared decisions in department management

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

What you will be 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 wide range of highly specialized functions in both psychiatry and somatics, a large research environment and a comprehensive educational task. We treat patients in acute, specialized and planned pathways and operate 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 opportunities to create better coherence for patients and strengthen cooperation and learning across specialties.

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

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

We can offer you

• A central role in the building of the new Psychiatric Centre 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 occupancy on 1 January 2027 or by agreement.

Salary and terms of employment

You will be employed under contractual terms in accordance with the framework agreement on contract employment of medical chiefs, concluded with the Association of Specialist Doctors and Regionernes Løn- og Takstnævn.

Further information about the position

If you would like further information, you are very welcome to contact Deputy 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 the application via the advertisement link on this page.

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

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

Applicants progressing to the second round will complete a personality profile test. This is done electronically, and it is expected that personal feedback will be given in week 49.

As professional assessment forms a separate part of the recruitment 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 formulated in the job description for the respective position, cf. Region Hovedstaden's guideline “Professional assessment of applicants to chief physician positions” of 12 December 2019.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Reference material

• Job description
• Guidelines for good leadership
• The hospital's ambition “Well treated”
• Target picture for Region Hovedstaden
• Region Hovedstaden's leadership framework
• Region Hovedstaden's Hospital Plan