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

The Danish Health Authority's Quality Institute (SundK) is seeking a strong analyst for data-driven and evidence-based quality development across the health system - with a focus on cardiovascular diseases and chronic illnesses.

Would you like to contribute to strengthening quality in the Danish health system? We are looking for an engaged colleague who wants to help develop a more data-based, targeted and effective quality assurance across the sectors and actors of the health system - for 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 system. The work is carried out in close collaboration with health professionals, management, patients and other key stakeholders with the shared goal of ensuring high and consistent quality in the diagnostic work, treatment and follow-up for patients.

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

About the job

You will be employed in Quality Unit A, where the focus is on the heart area, the 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 will contribute with analytical skills in SundK and will have a varied daily routine 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 patient pathways for people with chronic diseases.

You will be attached to the Clinical Quality Bases function and will in daily practice 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 will collaborate with health professionals, management representatives and patients on data-driven quality development.

In the steering groups you contribute to identifying and discussing central quality challenges and selecting tools to address these. In line with this you will contribute to a proper construction of quality databases, including setting up relevant and robust quality indicators that can illuminate central quality challenges.

In addition you will work with analysis and interpretation of data as well as dissemination 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 shape the development of treatment quality for people with chronic disease
• a diverse portfolio of tasks with both operations and development within central areas of the health system
• strong interdisciplinary collaboration in SundK and close collaboration with health professionals and other actors across the country
• a high professional level, commitment and good opportunities for collegial sparring
• flexibility and influence on the planning of your tasks
• a casual and welcoming collaborative culture.

Your tasks

You will among other things

• Support the development, updating and implementation of clinical guidelines in the psychiatry area
• Facilitate working groups and meetings with clinical experts and professional societies
• Advise on choice of good topics, literature searches, evidence assessment and formulation of recommendations
• Help translate research and evidence into practice-oriented recommendations
• Ensure progress in guideline projects in close collaboration with the professional environments
• Contribute to further development of methods, processes and tools in guideline work
• Participate 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

• participation in the unit's work with data-supported quality development with focus on the area of chronic diseases, including SundK’s support of chronic care packages
• represent SundK in the steering groups of the quality databases and contribute with epidemiological methods and an improvement focus, including the definition of populations and quality indicators
• analyze and interpret data with a view to translating results into usable knowledge and concrete quality improvements
• present results in a recipient-focused and professionally solid manner, both in writing and orally,
• document the contents of the databases and ensure transparency in data quality, evidence base and methodology
• advise partners locally and nationally on data-supported quality development
• collaborate with colleagues on quality development and prioritization in the health system, among other things in connection with the preparation of admission guidelines, clinical guidelines, analyses and assessments
• collaborate with health system actors on quality development within the quality unit's focus areas with an eye to synergies with SundK’s other core tasks.

About you

We emphasize that you

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

As a person you are

• a trailblazer who can take responsibility for and drive new tasks
• a strong team player who can achieve consensus across different professional groups and organizations
• good at aligning, communicating expectations and frameworks as well as achieving progression in your collaborations
• solution-oriented and see new possibilities
• systematic, analytical and able to create an overview
• a skilled communicator who can translate complex results into clear and usable messages
• decisive with a flair for change management.

Salary and terms of employment

The position is 37 hours per week and desired to be filled on January 1, 2027.

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

The workplace may 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 are employed in the Central Denmark Region with workplace in Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense or Copenhagen.

Integrity policy: From January 1, 2027 SundK will introduce an integrity policy to support openness, transparency and trust in SundK's work with quality development and patient safety in the Danish health system.

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

Application

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

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

About SundK

The Danish Health Authority's Quality Institute aims to support stronger, data-based and more targeted quality work and a better prioritization and resource use for the benefit of patient care in Denmark. The mission is to ensure high and consistent quality as well as efficient prioritization across the health system in close collaboration with health system stakeholders.

We create synergy between five core areas

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

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

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