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

Would you stand at the helm of a highly specialized department for breast examinations? Are you a motivating staff leader who can create followership, collaboration and well-being? And can you lead the department and the employees through the changes that follow the health reform?

The Department for Breast Examinations is seeking a chief radiographer who finds it easy to establish and maintain stable and flexible collaborative relationships. Someone who works from 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 hospital's overall management, which has a close collaboration with the executive team, the other hospitals and municipalities.

The department works purposefully to design the best elective patient pathways with patient safety, satisfaction and quality as benchmarks, and as chief radiographer you must be able to show the way, gain followership, inspire and motivate all professional disciplines 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 you will, in connection with the establishment of the Region of East Denmark on 1 January 2027, be responsible for ensuring that the department is prepared to meet the expectations and requirements that arise when we solve tasks for the large community in a unified eastern Danish health system.

As chief radiographer you must thus have both a strategic view that extends beyond your own hospital and a sharp view of daily operations management. This means that you must have the skills and the willingness for change management, which in the future will become even more of a cornerstone in 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 Examinations is housed in refurbished, fine premises with brand new equipment at Gentofte Hospital.

The department is the region's only mammography unit, and patients are referred from across the Capital Region. In the department, patients with symptoms of breast diseases and patients who are monitored in a treatment pathway are examined, as well as women who are recalled for investigation from the breast cancer screening program. The department has the pathway responsibility 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. 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 group 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 are 79 years old.

The department includes a large secretariat where management sits as well as triage nurses, medical secretaries and IT system administrators. Since the department holds great expertise, there is regularly staff and guests from other regions to seek inspiration, participate in conferences or hold meetings. The department also prioritizes research activity and has a PhD student.

The department has a close collaboration within 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 staff leader who can create followership and well-being.
• create clear frameworks and support a culture where there is room to breathe.
• 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.
• 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 collaborate with department heads, just as you focus on leveraging staff potential.
• have leadership experience and preferably a relevant leadership education at master's level or equivalent.
• hold Danish authorization as radiographer.

What you will become 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 in psychiatry and somatics, a large and rich research environment, a mother-baby 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 to set the relevant agendas municipally, regionally, nationally and internationally. We cooperate closely with each other across the hospital and with our good external partners in municipalities, general practice and the region to implement the health reform and realize the 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, employees 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 be part of a unique and value-based community in hospital management, where the executive and department heads together set direction and goals for the future of Herlev and Gentofte Hospitals – 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 put first, we would be happy to receive your application.

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

Salary and terms of employment

You will be employed in accordance with the agreement for managers in the Health Cartel area, concluded between the Danish Nurses Association and Regionernes Lønnings- og Takstnævn.

Further information about the position

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

Application deadline and process for recruitment

The application deadline is 25 October 2026. You submit the application via the advertisement link here on the 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 advance to the second round will undergo a personality profile analysis. This is done electronically, and it is expected that there will be personal feedback in week 46.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Reference material

• Job description
• Guidelines for good leadership
• Hospital's ambition “Well treated”
• Target picture for the Capital Region
• Leadership framework of the Capital Region
• Region Hovedstadens Hospital Plan