Epidemiologist with strong analytical skills and experience in quality development in the healthcare system (Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense or Copenhagen)

The Health Service Quality Institute (SundK) seeks a strong analyst for data-supported and evidence-based quality development across the health service - with a focus on heart diseases and chronic diseases.

Would you like to contribute to strengthening quality in the Danish health system? We are looking for an engaged colleague who will help develop a more data-based, targeted and effective quality work across the health service's sectors and actors - to the benefit of patients and citizens in Denmark.

You will play a central role in driving, analyzing, interpreting and communicating results from the clinical quality databases - and contribute to translating insights into concrete quality improvements across the health service. The work is carried out in close collaboration with health professionals, management, patients and other key stakeholders with the common goal of ensuring high and consistent quality in assessment, treatment and follow-up for patients.

The position provides an opportunity to influence and develop the effort for people with chronic disease - currently among others by supporting the implementation of care pathways for people with chronic disease (chronic care packages) and monitoring the spread of the packages to the relevant patient groups and the impact on patient quality.

About the job

You will be employed in the Quality Unit A, where the focus is on the cardiac area, musculoskeletal area and chronic diseases. The unit consists of about 20 employees, who work broadly with SundK’s core tasks: clinical guidelines, admission guidelines, analyses and assessments, patient safety work and clinical quality databases.

As an epidemiologist you contribute with analytical competencies in SundK and will have a varied everyday life with good opportunities to contribute to the development of both the institute's and the quality unit's work to strengthen quality, equality and coherence in the pathways for people with chronic diseases.

You will be attached to the Clinical Quality Bases function and will in daily life work closely with, among others, data managers and quality consultants on the development and operation of several clinical quality databases. You will become part of steering groups in selected quality databases, where you collaborate with health professionals, management representatives and patients on data-supported quality development.

In the steering groups you contribute to identifying and discussing central quality challenges and choosing tools to address them. In continuation, you will contribute to a suitable build-up of quality databases, including the establishment of relevant and robust quality indicators that can illuminate central quality challenges.

Additionally you will work with analysis and interpretation of data as well as communication of knowledge and recommendations to support concrete quality improvements within specific disease areas and interventions.

We offer

• a dynamic organization in rapid development
• an opportunity to influence the development of treatment quality for people with chronic disease
• a varied portfolio of tasks including both operations and development within central areas of the health service
• a strong interdisciplinary collaboration within SundK as well as close collaboration with health professionals and other actors across the country
• a high professional level, engagement and good opportunities for collegial sparring
• flexibility and influence on the planning of your work tasks
• an informal and welcoming collaborative culture.

Your tasks

You will, among other things, be

• Supporting the development, updating and implementation of clinical guidelines in the psychiatry area
• Facilitating working groups and meetings with clinical experts and professional societies
• Advising on the selection of good topics, literature searches, evidence assessment and formulation of recommendations
• Contributing to translating research and evidence into practice-oriented recommendations
• Ensuring progress in guideline projects in close collaboration with the professional environments
• Contributing to further development of methods, processes and tools in guideline work
• Participating in cross-cutting collaborations with among others quality consultants and epidemiologists in SundK on quality, data and improvement of patient pathways.

Your tasks will include

• participating in the unit's work with data-supported quality development with a focus on the chronic disease area, including SundK’s support for chronic care packages
• representing SundK in the quality database steering groups and contributing with epidemiological methods and improvement focus, including setting populations and quality indicators
• analyzing and interpreting data with a view to translating results into usable knowledge and concrete quality improvements
• communicating results in a targeted and professionally sound way, both in writing and orally
• documenting the contents of the databases and ensuring transparency in data quality, evidence base and methodology
• advising partners locally and nationally on data-supported quality development
• collaborating with colleagues on quality development and prioritization in the health service, including the preparation of admission guidelines, clinical guidelines, analyses and assessments
• collaborating with health service actors on quality development within the quality unit's focus areas with an eye for synergies with SundK’s other core tasks.

About you

We emphasize that you

• have experience with quality development in the health service, preferably across sectors and professional disciplines
• have experience with data analysis, preferably based on the national health registers
• have worked with epidemiological methods
• can navigate in complex settings and maintain focus on progress in the joint task
• have insight into and interest in the organization of the health service
• have a relevant academic education, preferably supplemented with a PhD.

As a person you are

• a front-runner who can take responsibility for and drive new tasks
• a strong team player who can achieve consensus across different disciplines and organizations
• good at aligning, communicating expectations and frameworks and achieving momentum in your collaborations
• solutions-oriented and sees new possibilities
• systematic, analytical and able to create overview
• a skilled communicator who can translate complex results into clear and usable messages
• decisive with a flair for change management.

Salary and employment terms

The position is 37 hours per week and expected to commence on January 1, 2027.

Salary and employment terms follow the applicable collective agreement. Depending on your competencies, experiences, educational background and the content of the position, there may be an opportunity for employment as a special consultant.

The work locations can be in Odense (Forskerparken), Aarhus N (Hedeager), Aalborg (NOVI Science Park) or Copenhagen (Rigshospitalet). You should expect some travel activity due to internal and external collaborations.

You will be employed in the Central Denmark Region with the work location in Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense or Copenhagen.

Ethics policy: As of January 1, 2027 SundK will introduce an ethics policy to support openness, transparency and trust in SundK’s work with quality development and patient safety in the Danish health service.

As an employee of SundK you will be covered by the ethics policy. Read more here: https://www.sundk.dk/nyheder/sundk-vedtager-habilitetspolitik/

Application

Send your application, CV, education certificates and relevant attachments via our online recruitment system no later than Thursday, October 29, 2026 . We expect to conduct interviews November 5, 2026 in Odense (Forskerparken).

Would you like to hear more? You are welcome to contact epidemiologist Christian Skødt Antoniussen, tel. 2170 2204 or unit head Charlotte Cerqueira 2921 4916.

About SundK

The Health Service Quality Institute has as its overarching purpose to support stronger, data-based and more targeted quality work as well as better prioritization and resource use to benefit patient treatment in Denmark. The mission is to ensure high and consistent quality as well as efficient prioritization across the health service in close collaboration with health service stakeholders.

We create synergy between five core areas

• Clinical guidelines
• Admission guidelines
• Nationwide clinical quality databases
• Evaluations and analyses of treatment methods and health technologies
• Work with adverse events and the Danish Patient Safety Database

We are about 180 employees distributed across our four offices in Aarhus, Aalborg, Copenhagen and Odense. See more about Sundhedsvæsenets Kvalitetsinstitut on our website SundK.dk

As Region of Central Denmark undergoes ongoing savings and reorganisations, employees in relocation who apply for the position will have priority.

Region of Central Denmark is, in accordance with the EU directive on wage transparency that came into force on June 7, 2026, obliged to inform you of a starting salary or a range for starting salary for a position before offering employment.

Here you will find Region of Central Denmark’s salary catalog for most professional groups and positions found in the region: Transparency before employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk

Department: SundK - Aarhus

Application deadline: 29 October 2026

Location: Hedeager 3, 8200, Aarhus N