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

Do you want to lead a highly specialized department for breast imaging? Are you a motivating staff leader who can create followership, collaboration and well-being? And can you lead the department and the staff through the changes that follow the health reform?

The Department of Breast Imaging is seeking a chief radiographer who can establish and maintain stable and flexible collaborative relationships easily. Who works from a high professional level, and who has visions for the department's continued development.

Together with the chief physician you will undertake the strategic, administrative, financial, professional and personnel leadership of the department. You will be part of the hospital-wide management, which has close collaboration with the board, the other hospitals and municipalities.

The department works purposefully to plan the best elective patient pathways with patient safety, satisfaction and quality as guiding stars, and as chief radiographer you must be able to show the way, gain followership, 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 East Denmark on January 1, 2027, you will be responsible for ensuring the department is prepared to meet the expectations and requirements that arise when we are to solve tasks for the large community in a unified eastern Danish healthcare system.

As chief radiographer you must therefore have both a strategic perspective that reaches beyond your own hospital, and a sharp view of daily operations. This means you must have the ability for and be ready for change management, which in the future will become an even more cornerstone of the management role.

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

About the department

The Department of Breast Imaging is housed in refurbished, fine premises with brand new equipment at Gentofte Hospital.

The department is the region's only mammographic unit, and patients are referred from across the Capital Region of Denmark. The department examines patients with symptoms of breast disease and patients who are monitored in a treatment process, as well as women who are recalled for diagnostic work from the breast cancer screening program. The department has overall responsibility for pathways until patients are diagnosed and either referred to the Department of Breast Surgery or concluded in the department.

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

The department includes a large secretariat where the management sits, as well as screening nurses, medical secretaries and IT system administrators. Because the department holds great expertise, staff and guests from other regions come regularly to seek inspiration, participate in 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 hospital sites in the region.

Read more on the department's website About you

It is important that you

• are a motivating and listening line manager, who can create followership and well-being.
• establish clear frameworks and support a culture with a high ceiling.
• 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 relationships, desire collaboration, have humor and dare to put yourself in play with internal and external partners.
• participate actively in councils and committees both inside and outside the hospital, regionally and nationally.
• have a dynamic and patient-centered approach to clinical work.
• advise and collaborate with department heads, just as you focus on unlocking employees' potential.
• have managerial experience and preferably a relevant leadership education at master's level or equivalent.
• have Danish authorization as a radiographer.

What you will become part of

Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is one of Denmark's largest acute hospitals and a national cancer center. We have many highly specialized functions in psychiatry and somatics, a large and rich research environment, a mother-baby center and a large educational institution. We research, educate, treat and heal. We are based at several locations and have acute, specialized and elective patient pathways as well as high expectations that we set 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 the close-to-home healthcare for the benefit of citizens.

Our vision is to be a university hospital with insight and horizon. 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 and value-based community in hospital leadership, where the executive management and department heads set direction and goals for Herlev and Gentofte Hospitals – together converting 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 decency, and where the patient is always put first, we welcome your application.

The position is available for occupancy on 1 January 2027 or according to further agreement.

Salary and terms of employment

You will be employed in accordance with the agreement for chiefs in the Health Sector, concluded between the Danish Nurses Organization and Regionernes Lønnings- og Takstnævn.

Additional information about the position

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

Application deadline and process

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

The recruitment 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 proceed to the second round will complete a personality profile analysis. This is done electronically, and it is expected that feedback will be given in week 46.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Reference material

• Job description
• Beacons for good leadership
• Hospital’s ambition “Well treated”
• Strategic objectives for the Capital Region
• Region Hovedstaden's leadership framework
• Region Hovedstadens Hospitalsplan