Are you a nurse, and would you like to work with people with chronic illness and cardiac rehabilitation?

Are you interested in working with clarifying conversations, patient education and guidance? And can you support citizens in life with cardiovascular and chronic diseases?

Are you keen to work in a well-functioning small team, in a department with great flexibility and good opportunities for sparring with skilled colleagues?

Then you might be the one we are seeking for a permanent position of 32 hours per week from January 1, 2027.

You will be affiliated with the department “Active Everyday, Rehabilitation and Public Health” in Odder Municipality, based in the Health House in VitaPark Odder. Together with a dietitian and a physiotherapist, you will be responsible for our cardiovascular rehabilitation and other services for people with chronic diseases. This includes working to implement the upcoming chronic disease packages in connection with the new Health Reform.

We expect that you

• Have experience with Cardiovascular rehabilitation and other chronic disease areas within §119.
• Including practical experience with WHO-5 (Mental Well-being) and Heart QoL, cardiac medication and clarifying conversations.
• Have experience with and knowledge of various cardiovascular diseases, examinations and treatments.
• Know about Watt-max tests, conversations about lifestyle changes and transitions to civil society.
• Be curious and eager for development in both the heart area, other chronic disease areas and the upcoming chronic disease packages.
• Good at collaborating and being innovative with different professional groups.
• It is an advantage if you have experience with Nexus, KPro and the Heart Database.

Your tasks will include

• Rehabilitation and education of citizens with cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.
• Individual conversations with citizens and relatives.
• Dialogue-based group education for groups of citizens with chronic disease.
• Participate in chronic disease training sessions together with a physiotherapist.
• Collaboration with civil society , local patient associations and our Public Health team.
• Staying up to date with new knowledge within the disease specialties and rehabilitation.

Health and Care in Odder Municipality can offer

• Work in a well-functioning department, in a multidisciplinary team of nurses, dietitians and physiotherapists who are passionate about rehabilitating each citizen.
• A good, flexible and efficient work organization with great influence and responsibility.
• Dedicated colleagues, interdisciplinary partners and a management focused on the core task as well as development, quality and well-being.
• Good introduction and training with opportunities for competence development in everyday life – both professionally and personally.

About Active Everyday, Rehabilitation and Public Health

We are more than 35 employees in our department, with the easy-to-pronounce name ”Active Everyday, Rehabilitation and Public Health” in Odder Health House. We work across disciplines between physiotherapists and occupational therapists, nurses, social and health care workers, dietitian and public health developer.

The department sees many patient groups: rehabilitation after, for example, orthopedic surgery, neurological – and geriatric problems among others. We offer everyday rehabilitation and have health-promoting and preventive services for citizens. We also offer training for children in connection with the Child and Family Center.

We also handle patient-directed prevention for people with chronic disease such as COPD, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. We are in the midst of an exciting development with the implementation of the health reform and the new chronic disease packages.

We also handle citizen-targeted prevention, including smoking cessation programs and preventive conversations about alcohol.

We focus on supporting the citizen’s own knowledge, competencies and skills, so that the citizen can take responsibility for maintaining and promoting their own health and functional ability. We work based on the principle of equality in health. We target the interventions to the individual person.

The focal point for assessing the citizen’s needs is the clarifying conversation, which is based on the citizen’s disease, risk factors, function and daily life. The assessment is supplemented by an evaluation of the citizen’s health competencies, just as involvement of relatives is an important factor.

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Additional information

Application deadline: Sunday, October 25, 2026

Interviews will be held on Friday, October 30, 2026.

Salary and employment terms are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement.

A criminal record certificate must be presented upon employment.

You can obtain further information about the position from

Manager Jonas Nørgaard Gai, Tel: 23 62 84 75.

Or Physiotherapist Marie Sass Nielsen, Tel: 29 22 27 10