RE-ADVERTISEMENT - We are still looking for our new assistant manager for Engparken and Daghjem Brande

Do you want to help create well-being, quality and meaning? We are re-advertising the position of assistant manager, as we want to reach even more candidates who want to take part in the daily management and development of our nursing home and Day Home.

Do you want to help lead with person-centered care as the basic premise? Then come and join the Ikast-Brande municipality where we are currently looking for one assistant manager at one of our largest nursing homes – Engparken and Day Home Brande.

Engparken is a nursing home in the middle of Brande. We have 47 residences and a day centre – we are about 50 employees in a multidisciplinary staff group – and we may be looking for you https://engparken.ikast-brande.dk/ . We have a strong professional learning environment with a focus on competence development, quality and learning in relationships – if you can see yourself in that, we would love to hear from you. With us, learning is created in close collaboration between residents, relatives, volunteers, colleagues, leaders and the organization. Even when it is difficult and busy.

We are looking for an engaged and professionally strong assistant manager, who together with the daily manager and the staff will help create a safe, meaningful and dignified everyday life for our residents.

With us, person-centered care is an important foundation for our work. We see the individual person and start from the resident's life, wishes, needs and resources. We work purposefully to create coherence, well-being and meaning for the individual resident – every single day.

As assistant manager you will have a central role in both daily operations, staff well-being and professional development . You must be close to residents and staff – and at the same time able to lift your gaze, see the whole, and contribute to development, change and organizational direction.

A leadership role we create together

We believe that strong leadership is created in joint effort. Therefore we are not looking for an assistant manager who merely steps into a fixed predefined role. We want to create a strong leadership community, where together we find the best distribution of responsibilities and competencies.

You will have the opportunity to influence culture, operations, professional quality and development , and your concrete competence and responsibility areas will be developed in dialogue with the daily manager and based on both the organization's needs – and in what you are particularly good at .

We believe that leadership is strongest when different competencies and perspectives are brought into play.

Which competencies do you bring into our leadership community?

We see four central competency areas in the role

• People and relationships

You can build trust, presence and followership and work in an appreciative and person-centered way

• Professionalism and quality

You have a health professional background and can support high professional quality and translate professional ambitions into good practice

• Operations and prioritization

You can create overview, prioritize and get resources, needs and tasks to hang together – even when everyday life is complex

• Development and change

You can create meaning and engagement when we develop and change our practice. You can involve employees, create followership and keep to the direction – even when changes take time or meet resistance

Person-centered leadership and care cross all four areas.

We are curious about what you bring to our leadership community. You do not need to be strong in all areas. Maybe you have special competencies in professional development, perhaps you are strong in operations and structure, or perhaps you are passionate about people, culture and change. The most important thing is that you want to take responsibility, develop yourself and actively use your competencies in a shared leadership space.

We can offer

• A stimulating and diverse position as assistant manager with the opportunity to help shape both the role and our continued development
• Opportunity to influence culture, professionalism and operations together with the daily manager and the staff
• Skilled and engaged employees who work from a person-centered care as the professional foundation
• A close and rewarding collaboration with the manager, staff, residents, relatives and volunteers
• A leadership community characterized by openness, reflection, trust and mutual sparring
• Opportunity to develop your leadership competencies and take a relevant leadership education if you do not already have one
• An exciting organization where HEDEKRAFT is one of our core values

We imagine you

• Are health-professional trained
• Have leadership experience – preferably supplemented with a leadership education – or are motivated to undertake a leadership education
• Work in an appreciative, person-centered and curious way
• Are present, clear and accessible in your leadership
• Can create followership and translate goals and decisions into action in practice
• Can balance safe operations with development and change and at the same time create followership among employees
• Have experience with or an interest in change management and can create meaning, direction and engagement when new workflows, demands or professional initiatives must be implemented
• Can handle resistance and different perspectives constructively and maintain the direction, even when changes take time
• Can lead upwards, downwards and across the organization and build good relationships around you
• Have experience with – or desire to – work with data as a basis for development, quality and leadership decisions
• Can see yourself in the municipality's leadership foundation and DNA and want to translate that into good leadership in daily practice

You don’t need to be able to do it all from the start. The most important thing is that you want to take responsibility, learn, develop and achieve results together with others.

Leadership with presence, direction and courage

For us, good leadership is about

Being close to people

Creating clear direction

Having the courage to develop and change

We do not believe that the good leader must have all the answers. We believe in curiosity, reflection and learning together.

As an assistant manager you will therefore both need to stand strong in yourself and be an active part of the community. You must be able to listen and challenge, create calm and set direction – and be able to see opportunities when something should be done in a new way.

If you are motivated to make a difference for people, to create strong professional communities and to be involved in developing both culture and practice, we look forward to hearing from you.

Salary and employment conditions

Salary and employment follow the applicable collective agreement with KL and the negotiating-enabled organization. When we hire staff within the health and elderly area, it is a condition that the person we intend to hire can present a satisfactory private criminal record.

The application deadline is Tuesday, 17 November 2026

The first interview is expected to be held Monday, 23 November 2026, from which 2 candidates will be selected for a second interview round Thursday, 26 November 2026

Between the first and second interview, the candidates will complete a personality profile.

Further information

If you have questions about the position or wish to visit our house, you are welcome to contact: Leader Pama Sivapalasundaram, Tel.: 21599290, E-mail: [email protected]