Head of the Outpatient Clinic for Anxiety and Personality Psychiatry

Do you want to lead a specialized psychiatric outpatient clinic where professional quality, good staff management and efficient patient pathways go hand in hand?

We are seeking an outpatient director for the Outpatient Clinic for Anxiety and Personality Psychiatry in the Department of General Psychiatry, North, Brønderslev.

We offer an exciting leadership position with responsibility for staff management, daily operations, capacity management and professional development in an outpatient clinic with high professional standards and strong multidisciplinary competencies.

You will play a central role in creating direction and coherence in daily life, ensuring an appropriate use of the outpatient clinic's resources and supporting the development of treatment offerings for the benefit of patients and staff.

About the job

As outpatient director you will be responsible for the daily management and operation of the outpatient clinic with a focus on staff management, capacity management, prioritization and quality in patient pathways.

You must ensure an appropriate use of the outpatient clinic's resources and competencies and continuously follow up on activity, productivity and capacity. The task involves translating the clinic's overall goals and framework into concrete priorities in everyday life and creating coherence between staffing, treatment capacity, waiting times and requirements for assessment and treatment.

A central part of the position is to ensure efficient and coherent patient pathways, compliance with patient rights and systematic follow-up on operations. It requires you to maintain overview, make clear decisions and balance operational considerations with professional quality and staff well-being.

You also have responsibility to set direction for the staff group, support a good working environment and create frameworks for professional development as well as implementation of new treatment offerings and workflows.

You will collaborate closely with the outpatient clinic's chief physician on development and quality in assessment, diagnostics and treatment. Together you support the professional direction, multidisciplinary collaboration and the ongoing development of the outpatient clinic's offerings.

As outpatient director you report administratively to the chief nurse in the department leadership and perform operations and leadership tasks within the department's predetermined goals and framework.

About the Outpatient Clinic for Anxiety and Personality Psychiatry

The outpatient clinic handles assessment and treatment at main function level and is organized into three teams focusing on:

• Disorders of personality structure
• Anxiety disorders
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Dual diagnoses

In addition, the outpatient clinic collaborates closely with a prevention team for patients with self-harming behavior.

Treatment is based on a multidisciplinary approach with therapeutic, pharmacological and social work elements. We offer individual pathways, combination therapy, group therapy, psychoeducation and pharmacological treatment based on patient needs and the best available evidence.

The individual teams work with specialized treatment methods.

Personality disorders

The team handles assessment and treatment of patients with moderate to severe personality disorders. Treatment is based on psychodynamic and mentalization-based psychotherapy as well as methods such as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and guided self-determination (GSD).

Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders

The team provides treatment at main function level with a basis in cognitive and metacognitive treatment frameworks.

PTSD

Treatment includes methods such as Prolonged Exposure, EMDR, NET and ISTDP.

Dual diagnoses

The treatment track is being implemented, where multidisciplinary coordination and the development and implementation of new workflows are central tasks.

We highly value professional development, both cross-disciplinary and mono-disciplinary, and continuously work to integrate the latest evidence-based knowledge into practice. Employees participate in regular supervision and guidance, and the outpatient clinic actively contributes to training of junior doctors, psychologists in postgraduate training, nursing students and psychology interns.

About you

We are looking for a leader who can create following, clear direction and engagement in a multidisciplinary organization with high professional complexity.

We expect that you

• Have a health professional education and broad clinical experience from psychiatry.
• Have leadership experience and preferably a relevant leadership education or motivation to embark on one.
• Understand operations management, capacity management and resource utilization and be able to systematically follow up on activity and productivity.
• Can create overview, prioritize tasks and make clear decisions in a complex daily life.
• Can translate overarching goals into concrete actions and create momentum in both operations and development.
• Have strong communication skills and can create clarity, involvement and a high level of information.
• Actively work for a good working environment, staff well-being and constructive multidisciplinary collaboration.

Experience with psychotherapy and knowledge of the outpatient clinic's patient groups and treatment methods will be advantageous.

As a leader you are visible, clear and trustworthy. You manage to create frameworks and set a direction while involving staff expertise and supporting their autonomy. You work structurally and flexibly and can balance operational considerations, professional ambitions and staff needs.

Management organization and collaboration

You will become part of the Department of General Psychiatry, North, Aalborg University Hospital, and join a close collaboration with the department leadership, the outpatient clinic's chief physician and the other outpatient clinics.

The daily management is handled within the goals and framework set by the department leadership. The overall financial responsibility lies with the department leadership, while you are responsible for daily operations management as well as prioritization and follow-up on the outpatient clinic's capacity and productivity.

There is also close cross-department collaboration across the psychiatric departments in Region North Jutland focusing on supporting coherence, quality and joint development.

We offer

You will become part of the Department of General Psychiatry, North, Aalborg University Hospital, Region North Jutland – an organisation in ongoing development with the patient at the center.

As outpatient director you will get

• An exciting leadership position with the opportunity to influence the continued development of a specialized outpatient clinic.
• An engaged multidisciplinary staff group with high professionalism.
• A close collaboration with the outpatient clinic's chief physician and the rest of the leadership.
• Opportunity to combine personnel leadership, operations management and professional development.
• Good opportunities for personal and leadership development tailored to your experience and needs.
• A mentorship program that supports you in the leadership role.
• An work community focused on quality, collaboration, education and a good working environment.

You will become the daily leader for a broadly composed staff group consisting of doctors, senior psychologists, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, physiotherapist, social worker and medical secretaries.

We look forward to welcoming a new leader who together with the staff and the rest of the leadership will further develop the outpatient clinic and create the best possible framework for patients and staff.

Want to know more

If you have questions about the position, or would like to learn more about it, you are welcome to contact:

Chief Physician Bjarne Lund Christensen

Phone 20690377

Chief Nurse Helle K. Jakobsen

Phone 9764 3867 / 25579053

You may also refer to the Department of General Psychiatry, North, website for information about other units in the department - Department of General Psychiatry, North

Practical information

Position: Full-time position of 37 hours with start 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Salary and terms of employment: Salary and terms of employment according to the applicable collective agreement for leaders within the Health Cartel area entered into with the relevant organization.

Start: 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application deadline: 12 November 2026.

Interviews: Expected to be held in week 47.

Hiring process

• We will obtain references for the person we wish to hire.
• If required for the position, we will also obtain a criminal records check and a child care clearance.
• Education of students and trainees is one of the Department of General Psychiatry's core tasks, which all employees contribute to.

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