Chief Radiographer for the Department of Breast Imaging at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

Do you want to lead a highly specialized department of breast imaging? Are you a motivating people leader who can create followers, collaboration and well-being? And can you lead the department and its staff through the changes that follow from the healthcare reform?

The Department of Breast Imaging is seeking a chief radiographer who easily establishes and maintains stable and smooth collaborative relationships. Someone who works at a high professional level and who has visions for the department's continued development.

Together with the chief physician, you will handle the strategic, administrative, financial, professional and personnel leadership of the department. You will join the overall hospital management, which has close collaboration with the executive management, the other hospitals and municipalities.

The department works purposefully to plan the best elective patient pathways with patient safety, satisfaction and quality as guiding principles, and as chief radiographer you must be able to show the way, gain support, inspire and motivate all professional groups across the department.

Together with the chief physician you are responsible for ensuring that the breast cancer pathway times are adhered to. And at the same time, in connection with the establishment of Region Østdanmark on 1 January 2027, you will be responsible for ensuring that the department is prepared to meet the expectations and requirements that arise when we must solve tasks for the large community in a unified eastern Danish health system.

As chief radiographer you must therefore have both a strategic view that reaches beyond your own hospital and a sharp eye for daily operations management. This means that you must have the abilities and willingness for change management, which in the future will become a cornerstone of the leadership role.

In addition you must be able to support and expand the department's research environment, just as you will largely work with education and competence development of the staff, because we believe that a focus on education and a good working environment creates the best conditions for our patients.

About the department

The Department of Breast Imaging is based in renovated, nice premises with completely new equipment at Gentofte Hospital.

The department is the region's only mammoradiological unit, and patients are referred from the entire Capital Region of Denmark. In the department, patients with symptoms of breast diseases and patients in follow-up in a treatment course are examined, as well as women recalled for investigation from the breast cancer screening program. The department has responsibility for the care pathway until patients are investigated and either referred to the Department of Breast Surgery or completed in the department.

The department is also responsible for managing the regional breast cancer screening program. The department is linked to five regional breast cancer screening clinics at Hillerød, Hvidovre, Bornholm, Bispebjerg and Gentofte hospitals. The screening secretariat is located on Bornholm. The target population for the screening program is about 220,000 women aged 50-69 and about 8,500 women operated for breast cancer, who continue in the screening program until they turn 79.

The department has a large secretariat where management sits, as well as triage nurses, medical secretaries and IT system administrators. Because the department holds great expertise, staff and visitors from other regions regularly come to seek inspiration, attend conferences or hold meetings. The department also prioritizes research activity and has a PhD student.

The department has close collaboration in the multidisciplinary team with breast surgeons, oncologists and pathologists, from several sites in the region.

Read more on the department's website

About you

It is important that you

• are a motivating and listening people leader who can create followers and well-being.
• create clear boundaries and support a culture where there is room to think big.
• are open and appreciative in your communication and take responsibility for and prioritize a good working environment.
• can lead with an initiative-driven and visionary approach and a sharp eye for development, research and innovation opportunities.
• work ambitiously, openly and purposefully to involve patients and relatives.
• are skilled at building relations, desire collaboration, have humor and dare to put yourself at stake with partners internally and externally.
• actively participate in councils and committees both inside and outside the hospital, regionally and nationally.
• have a dynamic and patient-centered approach to clinical work.
• consult and cooperate with department heads, while focusing on unlocking employees' potential.
• have management experience and preferably a relevant leadership qualification at master's level or equivalent.
• hold Danish authorization as a radiographer.

What you will be part of

Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is one of Denmark's largest acute hospitals and one of the national cancer centers. We have many highly specialized functions within psychiatry and somatics, a large and rich research environment, are a mother-child center and a large educational institution. We research, educate, treat and cure.

We are located at several sites and have acute, specialized and elective patient pathways as well as high expectations that we set the relevant agendas locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. We collaborate closely across the hospital and with our good external partners in the municipalities, general practice and the region to implement the health reform and realize close-to-home health care for the benefit of citizens.

Our vision is to be a university hospital with insight and perspective. Our mission is 'Well treated' – that is our promise to patients, relatives, staff and partners, and we work every day to make it a reality. In addition we develop strong communities, create sustainable health, communicate actively and boldly, and build bridges to the future.

In other words, you will become part of a unique values-based community in hospital management, where the executive and department leaders together set direction and goals for the future of Herlev and Gentofte Hospital – together we translate vision into reality, mission into action and values into behavior.

So if you dream of developing your leadership skills at a hospital where the culture is characterized by trust and integrity, and where the patient is always placed first, we would be happy to receive your application.

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

Salary and terms

You will be employed under the agreement for managers in the Health Cartel area, concluded between the Danish Nurses Organization and the Regions' Payroll and Tariff Board.

Further information about the position

If you would like further information, you are very welcome to contact Deputy Director Bodil Ørkild at phone 2020 8718 or Chief Physician Ilse Vejborg at phone 2117 5153.

Application deadline and process

The application deadline is 25 October 2026. You submit the application via the advertisement link on this page.

Hiring interviews will be conducted in two rounds. The first round is expected to be held on 2 November 2026 and the second round on 12 November 2026.

Applicants who progress to the second round will undergo a personality profile analysis. This is done electronically, and it is expected that personal feedback is provided in week 46.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Referral materials

• Job description
• Leadership benchmarks
• Hospital's ambition “Well treated”
• Target image for Region Capital
• Region Capital's leadership principles
• Region Capital's Hospital Plan

Application deadline: 25 October 2026

Location: Herlev and Gentofte Hospital