Consultant physician with an interest in patient safety for Tilsyn og Rådgivning Øst

Would you use your medical expertise where it can make a difference for many? With us you get the opportunity to put it into play in a broad medical perspective and contribute to a safe and patient-secure health system through supervision and advisory services.

About Supervision and Advisory Øst

Supervision and Advisory Øst is part of the Danish Patient Safety Authority. We supervise treatment facilities in the upcoming Region East as well as handle a range of health-professional advisory and emergency tasks.

We are about 45 employees with diverse professional backgrounds. The majority are doctors and nurses, and in addition the unit consists of other academics and administrative staff. It provides a strong multidisciplinary environment where complex issues are illuminated from several perspectives, and where your medical judgment plays a central role.

The unit consists of two sections: Organization Supervision and Advisory and Preparedness. In addition we have a very close collaboration with the administrative and the legal section.

In the unit we have a strong professional community, where we collaborate, share knowledge and together develop our task resolution. Our unit is characterized by a good and close collegial cooperation both professionally and socially, with a focus on learning and development. We solve our tasks in close multidisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in our own unit and in the agency's other units.

In addition to supervision of treatment facilities we provide health-professional advisory to other authorities and health personnel regarding among other things reportable infectious diseases, environmental contamination, forensically, traffic medicine mm.

We prepare health-professional contributions to answers to parliamentary and committee questions and in connection with the preparation of regulations and guidelines.

Your everyday life with us

As Department Doctor in Supervision and Advisory Øst you will have a varied workday, where you use your clinical experience and medical expertise in many different contexts.

You will be employed in Organization Supervision, where you will work with patient safety at treatment facilities. Specifically it will be you who assess the health-professional conditions, workflows and organizational frameworks at treatment facilities that have significance for the future patient safety. You participate in both supervision visits and administrative supervision and make health-professional assessments based on, among other things, concrete events and inquiries. The work gives you a broad insight into different specialties, treatment facilities and ways of organizing the health service.

In addition you will participate in handling the agency's medical fundamental tasks, including telephone shifts and forensic autopsies. These tasks are anchored in the Advisory and Preparedness section. Common to the tasks is that you bring your clinical experience and medical judgment into play in complex issues, make independent professional assessments and collaborate closely with colleagues with different professional backgrounds.

You will be attached to both a strong multidisciplinary team in Organization Supervision and a medical team across the unit's sections.

Your education, experience and personal qualifications

You are a specialist doctor, preferably in public health, but we are interested in doctors from all specialties. The most important for us is that you have solid experience and want to bring your medical expertise into play in a broader perspective.

You are interested in patient safety and the issues that arise at the intersection of medical science, health law, organization and authorities' responsibility. If you have experience with health law, authorities' work and/or organizational tasks it is an advantage, but not a prerequisite. The crucial thing is that you are interested in the area and want to learn.

In addition we emphasize that you

• Have experience with and interest in administrative case processing.
• Have strong collaboration skills and thrive in an organization where decisions are made in consultation with leaders and colleagues with different professional backgrounds.
• Work systematically, methodically and analytically, so you can create an overview of and present complex areas/cases.
• Express yourself well both in writing and orally.
• Can prioritize your tasks and can thrive in a political field with media attention.
• Have the desire to contribute to working on and developing the health-professional organizational supervision of treatment facilities in collaboration with your colleagues and external actors.

It is a condition that you have a driving license and your own car at your disposal.

We offer

An exciting and very varied workday in a political field with a mix of outbound tasks, analysis tasks, case processing and administrative tasks that all have many interfaces to the legislation in the health sector. You will become part of an active multidisciplinary environment where together with skilled and dedicated colleagues you have the opportunity to use and develop your competencies and contribute to developing a professional supervision of treatment facilities.

We are a workplace that values an informal tone and a good working environment characterized by close cooperation and sparring. Regardless of your background, many of our tasks will probably be new to you. We therefore provide good training, including broad introduction and internal education.

You will have a flexible work arrangement and an option for ad hoc home office one day a week after agreement with the nearest manager.

You will be covered by a free coffee and fruit scheme, free training facilities and a swan-labeled canteen. We have an art association and an active staff association that arranges theatre and cinema trips, museum visits etc. We have a bicycle cellar and are within walking distance of public transport. It is possible to sign up for a parking-space scheme, and there are electric charging stations. The Agency has a beautiful location at Islands Brygge with a view over Copenhagen Harbour.

We are moreover a workplace that prioritizes collaboration on the green transition.

About the employment

The employment is full-time (37 hours) and commencement is desired on February 1 or after further agreement.

You will be employed as a Department Doctor in accordance with the applicable collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and Young Doctors.

Employment as Department Doctor presupposes that you have obtained specialist recognition.

The application deadline is November 17, 2026.

The position is shift-free.

After training you will have the opportunity to join the agency's preparedness duty.

Please contact us

Learn more about the position by sending an SMS to section leader Lone Lind Pedersen 9351 4272, and you will be called back.

Are you interested?

Click on "apply for the position" and send us your application and CV. Hiring interviews are expected to be held on November 20, 2026.

You can read more about us at www.stps.dk.