Experienced consultant to strengthen wellbeing and the working environment in the elderly care sector

Do you want to lead a targeted, politically prioritized effort for wellbeing and occupational health? And do you have the tools to support our leaders and strengthen the work communities in the elderly care sector? Then you may be the one we are looking for for a newly created position.

The City Council of Syddjurs Municipality agrees to prioritize wellbeing, a good working environment and preventing sick leave as a central part of developing a strong and sustainable elderly care sector. Therefore a new position is created to carry out a targeted effort that shall support the leaders close to daily practice. It will be your task together with leaders and staff in Health and Elderly to translate this investment into reality, so we continue to have high wellbeing, lower sick leave, a good working environment, stable staffing and even higher quality for citizens.

Your primary areas of responsibility will

• Leader support close to practice: You coach and support the leaders so they are equipped to early prevent, detect and handle occupational health challenges.
• Support for continued ensuring of a healthy workplace culture and strengthening of work communities: You develop and facilitate initiatives that increase employees' wellbeing, job satisfaction and attachment to the organization.
• Support for the leaders' early efforts against sickness absence including leadership sparring, ensuring cross-organisational knowledge sharing and supporting work with relevant data.
• Gather experiences and inspiration for initiatives from other municipalities or similar workplaces.
• Sparring partner and inspirer for our local MED committee, TRIO members and AMR representatives: You bring concrete tools and initiatives into play.
• Facilitation and supervision: You plan and lead workshops, theme days and professional reflection programs for staff groups .
• You are curious about data, and you ensure that we work systematically and data-driven in our efforts.

About you

We imagine you have an academic background or health-professional background combined with solid experience in process and organizational development.

We place emphasis on you having

• Experience in supporting and facilitating the development of strong work communities and organizational learning and development.
• Strong advisory skills and experience in providing close sparring to leaders on sickness absence and wellbeing.
• Experience or training in conducting supervision and collegial sparring.
• Insight into strategic and practical occupational health work – preferably from a politically governed organization.
• A trustworthy and proactive personality that can create followership across professional groups.
• Knowledge of how to translate various forms of data into practice, and driven by how we can use data.

Who are we?

You will be employed in the Secretariat for Health and Formation and report to the Secretariat Chief. You will have a close collaboration with the Chief Medical Officer for Health and Elderly as well as the management team in the area. In addition you will have broad interaction with staff in the elderly care area, and you will collaborate across the organization.

You will in the secretariat be part of a professionally strong department with great knowledge, high wellbeing and a strong community. Here you will have skilled colleagues who help each other, and great freedom to plan your work. We have a high ceiling, an informal tone and a focus on both results and job satisfaction.

The Secretariat for Health and Formation covers two large professional areas: Children and Learning and Health and Elderly. Children and Learning handles tasks within daycare, schools, Youth Center and PPR, while Health and Elderly has responsibility for home care, nursing, nursing homes, the health area, visitation and aids, etc.

Workplace and mobility

Your primary workplace will be the administration building in Ebeltoft. As part of the tasks you will also need to work from the administration building in Hornslet as well as at various facilities in the municipality. Since the position involves driving between the municipality's locations, a valid driver’s license is necessary.

Salary and employment

The position is as a rule 37 hours per week. Start date is 1 January 2027. Salary and terms of employment are according to the applicable collective agreement. A criminal record check will be obtained in connection with the employment.

How to apply

Click on "Send application" to apply for the job. Attach your motivated application, CV and relevant attachments in PDF or Word format.

The application deadline is no later than 18 November 2026. Interviews are expected to be held on 24 November 2026, with a possible second round on 26 November 2026.

Would you like to know more?

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the Secretariat Chief Anne Line Bjerregaard. Send an SMS to 20 51 49 15, and you will be called back.

Syddjurs Municipality encourages everyone to apply for the position regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, disability etc.

Syddjurs Municipality uses digital recruitment, see available positions at www.syddjurs.dk/job

We are the largest workplace in Syddjurs with approximately 3,200 employees. Employees who every day go to work to help and support the municipality's citizens. Through dialogue with businesses, users and citizens we ensure shared responsibility for the Municipality's development.

We have a Collaboration Foundation that builds on five guiding principles; Conversations , Community, Action, Responsibility and Development.

See glimpses of our collaboration across our workplaces here

You can read more about our collaboration framework via the following link Collaboration framework .

Syddjurs Municipality has around 44,000 inhabitants, five main towns and a large catchment area with many villages. We are a municipality in development and every year many families choose to move here. Our strengths are active citizens, the many town communities, an outstanding nature and proximity to the big city Aarhus.

We are an active part of the development in the Central Denmark Region, including the Business Region Aarhus, which is a community of the 12 East Jutland municipalities with a total of one million East Jutlanders, half a million jobs and the country's largest growth area outside the capital region.