Chief Physician for the closed psychiatric inpatient ward S5, Aalborg University Hospital – Department of General Psychiatry, Aalborg

Are you passionate about intensive psychiatry, interdisciplinary collaboration and strong professional leadership in a demanding daily work life with a fast pace in the field? Then we offer in the Acute Psychiatric Department, Aalborg an exciting and development-oriented senior consultant position with a high degree of independence.

About the job

As a senior consultant you will have a particularly important task in the form of managerial responsibility for the professional tasks undertaken by the inpatient ward. You will address this in close cooperation with the treatment team, the chief nurse and the rest of the multidisciplinary staff, where you together also focus on coordinating daily operations, collaboration and the working environment.

Finally you will have a particularly close collaboration with the chief physicians in the intensive care and acute areas. The acute area consists of Ward S6 (also a closed acute ward) and the Psychiatric Receiving Ward and the Emergency Room S4, as well as the outpatient units where patients are typically followed.

The department has many students, both pre- and post-graduate, across all professional groups, where you are expected to participate in activities and teaching, especially in this regard in relation to medical students and doctors. Finally you will naturally play an important role in anchoring the ward’s collaboration with the other inpatient wards, which are located together at the new university hospital in Hospital City, while the outpatient clinics are gathered in a dedicated Ambulatory House located on Brandevej in Aalborg Øst. The latter is expected to be fully implemented in early 2027.

About you

It is a prerequisite that you are a specialist in psychiatry, here with a strong professional profile, and that you wish to work in an exciting position with both clinical and educational activities as well as possibly research. That you thrive in a multidisciplinary field with many colleagues and partners, have good communication skills and are able to structure your daily life in connection with development activities – and that you are of course an active contributor in a changing daily life.

We expect you to have

• Danish authorization as a specialist in psychiatry – preferably with solid experience with the acute area
• Good collaboration skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to motivate and provide professional sparring
• Ability to achieve results based on shared direction and coordination.

Treatment-related experience and competencies within intensive psychiatry will be an advantage.

We offer

The Acute Psychiatric Department, Aalborg is a large department with many colleagues, and we invite you into a strong multidisciplinary community, with a strong focus on ensuring a good working environment.

We work according to the region’s I-TOP values, and place high emphasis on seeing and meeting patients where they are, by putting their needs first and doing what works for the patient. In the Patient’s Team we work to ensure cross-sector collaboration in the integrated patient pathways together with the patient and relatives.

About us

The Psychiatry of the Northern Denmark Region is organizationally part of Aalborg University Hospital and comprises five departments: Three of these are located in Aalborg (Acute Psychiatric Department, Aalborg, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry) and two based in Brønderslev (adult and elderly psychiatry). You can read more here .

The Acute Psychiatric Department, Aalborg comprises five areas with open- and intensive inpatient wards, a regional psychiatric emergency department with reception as well as extensive outpatient functions.

The professional development in the area is prioritized, and there is a clinical professor attached.

Teaching of medical students is an integrated part of the department’s other activities.

The ward management in the area consists of a chief physician and the chief nurse of Ward S5.

The Acute Psychiatric Department, Aalborg is part of Aalborg University Hospital and is together with somatics relocated to the new university hospital, Hospital City, where the Department leadership also has offices.

Ambulatory services for Anxiety and Personality Psychiatry as well as Ambulatory Service for Affective Disorders (Team Bipolar and Team Depression) are still located on Mølleparkvej until the relocation to the combined Ambulatory House on Brandevej in Aalborg East has taken place, expected early 2027. Ambulatory service for Psychoses and Ambulatory Service for Young People with Psychoses (OPUS) are already located at Brandevej facilities.

The department’s catchment area is the municipalities of Aalborg, Rebild, Vesthimmerland and Mariagerfjord for patients at the main function level and in addition the entire Region North Jutland for patients followed at the regional function level.

Applicants will be assessed according to the 7 physician roles ( www.kompetenceskema.rn.dk ). Documentation of Specialist Authorization, subspecialty training and CV should be attached.

Want to know more?

If you would like additional information about the position, you are welcome to contact Chief Physician Peter Uggerby at 3057 8209 or [email protected] .

The practical

Interviews are expected to be held on November 3, 2026

• The position is 37 hours per week with on-call duty
• Salary and employment terms as a senior physician according to the prevailing collective agreement between Danish Regions and the Association of Specialists.
• We will obtain references for the person we wish to hire. If required for the position, we also obtain a criminal record and a child protection record.
• In Region North Jutland we have a smoke-free working time.
• You submit your application by clicking the “Apply for Job” button and filling out the form that appears. You can attach your application, CV and any other documents, including a list of publications. We only accept applications via the link in the job advertisement. Applications sent by mail will not be processed.