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

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 heart diseases and chronic diseases.

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

You will play a central role in driving, analyzing, interpreting and communicating results from 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 common goal of ensuring high and consistent quality in the investigation, treatment and follow-up for patients.

The position offers an opportunity to shape and develop the effort for people with chronic illness - currently among other things 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 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 staff 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 analytical competencies to 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, equity and continuity in the care pathway for people with chronic diseases.

You will be attached to the clinical quality databases 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, representatives from management and patients on data-supported quality development.

In the steering groups you will contribute to identifying and discussing central quality challenges and selecting tools to address them. In this context you shall contribute to a sensible construction 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 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 influence the development of treatment quality for people with chronic disease
• a versatile portfolio of tasks including both operations and development within central areas of the health system
• strong interdisciplinary collaboration within SundK and close cooperation 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 informal 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 the choice of good topics, literature searches, evidence assessment and formulation of recommendations
• Contribute to translating 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

• being part of the unit's work with data-supported quality development with a focus on the chronic disease area, including SundK's support of chronic care packages
• represent SundK in the quality databases' steering groups and contribute with epidemiological methods and improvement focus, including definition of populations and quality indicators
• analyze and interpret data with a view to translating results into usable knowledge and concrete quality improvements
• communicate results in a recipient-friendly and professionally solid manner, both in writing and orally,
• document the databases' content 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, including 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 national health registries
• have worked with epidemiological methods
• can navigate in complex settings and keep 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 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 reach consensus across different professional disciplines and organizations
• good at aligning, communicating expectations and frameworks as well as achieving progress in your collaborations
• solution-oriented and see new possibilities
• systematic, analytical and able to create overview
• a skilled communicator who can translate complex results into clear and usable messages
• proactive with a flair for change management.

Salary and employment terms

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

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

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

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

Habilitation policy: As of January 1, 2027 SundK will introduce a habilitation 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 habilitation policy. Read more here: https://www.sundk.dk/nyheder/sundk-vedtager-habilitetspolitik/

Application

Send your application, CV, proof of education 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 manager Charlotte Cerqueira 2921 4916.

About SundK

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

We create synergy between five core areas

• Clinical guidelines
• Admission guidelines
• Nationwide clinical quality databases
• Assessments and analyses of treatment forms 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 the Danish Health Quality Institute on our website SundK.dk

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