Experienced healthcare professional consultant for quality and coordinated patient pathways

Do you want to help create better and more coherent patient pathways?

In connection with the health reform, the healthcare system is facing a major transformation, where more tasks must be solved closer to the citizens and in a stronger collaboration between hospitals, municipalities and general practice. This requires robust patient pathways, high quality in task execution and targeted development of daily operations.

Therefore we are looking for an experienced health sciences consultant for the Unit for Quality and Patient Pathways, who can develop and implement solutions in the clinical everyday life. You will have a central role in quality development and cross-sector collaboration at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital. In close cooperation with the clinical environments you must be able to translate development needs into concrete improvements that create value for patients.

Your tasks will among other things be to

• Drive and coordinate development and implementation projects
• Support quality development in the clinic and improve workflows and patient pathways
• Strengthen the quality of care pathway plans in cooperation with clinical departments and municipalities
• Facilitate meetings, workshops and cross-cutting development processes
• Develop coherent patient pathways across hospital, municipalities and general practice
• Contribute to management support and other operational and development tasks

You will have a broad contact surface and will collaborate with both clinical management, staff, municipal partners and general practice.

We are looking for someone who

• Has a health professional education, preferably as a nurse, and a relevant master's degree, e.g., cand.cur., MPH or cand.scient.san.
• Has experience with quality and development work in hospital
• Has experience with cross-sector collaboration
• Is analytically strong and can create an overview of complex issues
• Has experience with project management and coordination of cross-cutting initiatives
• Is good at communicating both in writing and orally

We attach particular weight to the fact that you

• Have experience from clinical practice and an understanding of the conditions under which staff and leaders work
• Are a strong facilitator who can bring together different professional disciplines and create momentum in processes
• Work independently, structured and follow up tasks to the letter
• Have good collaboration skills and can navigate in a complex organization with many stakeholders
• Thrive at the intersection of operations, development and implementation

Who are we?

Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is one of Denmark's largest emergency hospitals and one of the national cancer centers. The hospital covers several major specialties, has several highly specialized functions and conducts research at international level. We are about 7,700 staff with an annual budget of almost 6 billion DKK.

The Department of Quality, Coherence and Development is located at Gentofte Hospital and consists of two units with a total of 35 staff: Unit for Quality and Patient Pathways and Unit for Research, Innovation and Digitisation.

Unit for Quality and Patient Pathways supports the hospital's departments and management in cross-sector collaboration, patient safety, quality and improvement work and patient and relative involvement.

We offer a position in a busy and solution-oriented workplace characterized by professional pride and willingness to improve. Together with the hospital's other staff, clinical departments and the region's other hospitals and centers we work deliberately to ensure our patients and staff feel well treated. In the unit we have engaged staff and an informal and constructive work climate.

Working hours, terms and application deadline

The position is permanent with an average weekly working time of 37 hours. We offer flexitime and the possibility of home working.

Salary and employment terms will as a rule be according to the AC or DSR agreements. There is the possibility to negotiate allowances corresponding to your qualifications.

We have offices at Gentofte Hospital. However, there will be meeting activity and similar at Herlev Hospital and with the municipalities in the hospital's planning area.

The position is desired to be filled on 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The application deadline is Wednesday 4 November 2026. First interviews are expected to be held in week 46 and any second interviews in week 47.

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to call unit head Trine Riis at tel. 25 31 82 00.