Consultant for 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 dynamic everyday life with pace in the field? Then we offer in the Adult Psychiatric Department, Aalborg an exciting and developing consultant position with a high degree of independence.

About the job

As a consultant you will have a particularly important task in the form of leadership responsibility for the medical tasks that the inpatient ward undertakes. You will solve this task in close collaboration with the treatment team, the chief nurse and the rest of the interprofessional 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 leading consultants in the intensive care and acute areas. The acute area consists of Ward S6 (also a closed acute ward) and Psychiatric Receiving Ward and the Emergency Department S4, as well as the outpatient units where patients are typically followed.

The department has many students, both pre- and post-graduate, across all disciplines, where you are expected to participate in activities and teaching, and this especially in fulfilling this task towards medical students and doctors. Finally, you will naturally have an important role in anchoring the inpatient ward’s cooperation with the other inpatient wards located together in the new university hospital in Hospital City, while the outpatient clinics are thereafter gathered in an Ambulatory House located on Brandevej in Aalborg Øst. The latter is expected to be fully completed in early 2027.

About you

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

We expect that you have

• Danish authorization as a medical specialist in psychiatry – preferably with solid experience in 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.

Clinical experience and competencies within intensive psychiatry would be an advantage.

We offer

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

We work according to the region's I-TOP values, and it is given high priority that in our work we focus on seeing and meeting the 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 cohesive patient pathways together with the patient and relatives.

About us

The Psychiatry in the North Jutland Region is organizationally part of Aalborg University Hospital and comprises five departments: Three of these are located in Aalborg (Adult Psychiatry, Aalborg; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Forensic Psychiatry) and two based in Brønderslev (adult general and geriatric psychiatry). You can read more here.

Adult Psychiatric Department, Aalborg comprises five areas with open and intensive inpatient wards, a regionally covering psychiatric emergency department with reception as well as an extensive outpatient function.

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

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

The Adult Psychiatric Department, Aalborg is part of Aalborg University Hospital and, together with the somatic units, relocated to the new university hospital, Hospital City, where the Department leadership is also housed.

The Anxiety and Personality Disorders Outpatient Clinic and the Mood Disorder Outpatient Clinic (Team Bipolar and Team Depression) remain located at Mølleparkvej until the relocation to the combined Ambulatory House at Brandevej in Aalborg Øst has taken place, expected early 2027. The Schizophrenia Outpatient Clinic and the Outpatient Clinic for Youth with Psychosis (OPUS) are already located in premises on Brandevej.

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 North Jutland Region for patients followed at the regional function level.

The applicant will be assessed based on the seven medical roles (www.kompetenceskema.rn.dk). Documentation of Specialist Authorization, domain-specific training and curriculum vitae must be attached.

Want to know more?

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

The practical

Interviews expected to be held: 3 November 2026

• The position is 37 hours per week with a duty requirement
• Salary and employment terms as a consultant according to the current agreement between the Danish Regions and the Association of Specialists
• We will obtain references for the person we wish to hire. If required for the position, we will also obtain a criminal record and child protection clearance.
• In North Jutland Region we have smoke-free working hours.
• You submit your application by clicking the “Apply for Job” button and filling in the form that appears. You may 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 email will not be processed.

Application deadline: 26 October 2026

Department: Mølleparkvej 10 9100

Location: Aalborg University Hospital