Doctor for Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in the Copenhagen Municipality

Do you want to make a difference for people with substance use problems and often complex social and health-related challenges? Become part of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Copenhagen, where you have the opportunity to shape the treatment in a strong multidisciplinary community with a focus on professional development.

About the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment is Denmark's largest center for substance use treatment, distributed across 10 locations around Copenhagen with departments for opioid substitution treatment, alcohol and drug treatment, heroin treatment, day treatment, youth treatment, as well as mobile and outreach substance use treatment.

The medical group consists of two chief physicians and 19 doctors, most of whom are specialists in general medicine. We work in local physician teams in close collaboration with the local management and the responsible medical lead, and hold regular physician meetings in the overall medical group every other week. Substance use treatment is anchored in citizen-facing, multidisciplinary local teams.

The medical team you will join consists of four doctors who provide medical care for about 365 patients distributed on:

• An offering for substitution treatment at Vigerslev Allé, providing multidisciplinary substance use treatment for opioid-dependent patients
• A clinic with exclusively health-professional substance use treatment
• A frontline multidisciplinary team that provides substitution treatment for citizens who cannot attend the established treatment offerings

In addition, U-Turn, the treatment offering for youths aged 14-24, is located door-to-door with Vigerslev Allé, and the doctors have joint sparring meetings and coordinate coverage in connection with holidays and courses.

We anticipate a period of internal experiential- and competence development across the entire center, so that all doctors broaden their competence field within substance use treatment.

You will have professional community with the other doctors in the team and will also be part of the overall medical group across the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. In connection with holidays, illness and courses we collaborate on medical coverage across the entire center.

The medical tasks

The medical treatment is described in the “Danish Health Authority’s Guidelines for doctors treating opioid-dependent patients with substitution medicine, 2017”.

You will closely collaborate with medical colleagues, health professionals and substance use treatment specialists to carry out the medical substance use treatment, including substitution treatment, screening for hepatitis and HIV, assessment of substance-use-related psychiatric and somatic disorders and patient education in overdose management.

As a physician you are expected to participate in competence development of other professional groups, and there is close collaboration with the local management in coordinating the health-professional effort. You will focus on somatic and psychiatric diseases and create contact with the established health system when relevant.

You will engage in broad collaboration with both internal and external actors, including the social home care, street-level initiatives, job centers, Denmark’s prisons, shelters, housing facilities, general practitioners and hospitals, including close collaboration with infectious disease outpatient clinics. There is good local collaboration with Flex General Practice and Flex Clinic at Bispebjerg Hospital regarding somatic issues and collaboration with psychiatry on treatment of patients with dual diagnoses.

About you

It is emphasized that you

• are a medical specialist in a relevant field, e.g., general medicine, psychiatry, public health – specialists can also apply
• preferably have solid experience as a physician and an interest in working with patients with substance use problems and often social vulnerability
• can work independently, systematically, structurally and instruction-based with tasks in the health-professional effort
• place emphasis on multidisciplinary and team-based collaboration
• have openness and good communication skills in patient work
• wish to contribute to ensuring coherence in the holistic and multidisciplinary treatment
• have good knowledge of the established health system and be able to bridge to it

We can offer

• a shift-free position with daytime working hours on weekdays
• a dynamic and development-oriented workplace with professional breadth and engaged colleagues
• a thorough introduction to the work and a scheduled introductory program, where you will be paired with experienced colleagues
• multidisciplinary, local staff groups with close collaboration on social- and health-professional efforts
• good physician colleagues with long experience within the field, both in the local medical team and in the overall medical group at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
• opportunity for close sparring with physician colleagues in the team, with the clinical chief physician on the phone and discussions with the extended medical group
• a comprehensive and practice-oriented instruction manual
• focus on professional development
• regular supervision
• opportunity to join the heroin clinic’s on-call arrangement after relevant training and competencies
• user-friendly IT system, Novax

Employment terms

Salary and terms of employment are set in accordance with the agreement for Younger Doctors and the Danish Regions.

The position is a permanent full-time role with a working time of 37 hours per week. The position is expected to be filled on 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Would you like to hear more?

Further information about the position can be obtained from clinical chief physician Katrine Marstrand at 21 65 55 83 or offer manager Jannie Grandt Thomsen at 20 41 96 29 (on vacation in week 46).

Submit a motivated application for the position.

Apply via the link no later than Thursday, 19 November 2026

We expect to conduct interviews on Tuesday, 24 November 2026.