Introductory position in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Esbjerg-Grindsted Hospital

Do you dream of working with anesthesia and critically ill patients – in an award-winning educational department?

In the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Esbjerg and Grindsted Hospitals we have a 1-year introductory position in anesthesiology available with start 1 March 2027. With us you will get a strong educational environment, high satisfaction among trainee doctors and the opportunity to explore the discipline broadly.

We are looking for a doctor who is

• Dynamic and has an interest in the anesthesiology specialty
• Good at communicating and collaborating
• Engaged and enjoys clinical work

You may very well have an introductory position from another specialty, but it is not a requirement

What you get with us

• A department with a good sense of community and welcoming colleagues
• A culture of trust rather than control
• A flat management structure
• Flexible duty roster
• A well-founded educational environment with high satisfaction in inspector reports
• Opportunity for research, teaching and career guidance towards a main specialty training

Who are we

Anesthesia is administratively part of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care. We handle all acute and planned procedures at Esbjerg and Grindsted hospitals, as well as operative procedures in psychiatry departments for ECT treatment. In addition, the Psychiatric Center West (psychiatric departments) is served with anesthesia for ECT treatments.

The activity in our department is overall characterized by the hospital’s status as an acute care hospital with about 17,000 anesthesia cases per year. Anesthesia and Intensive Care also operates the hospital’s intensive care unit with 10 high-dependency beds and the 24/7 emergency physician car, covered by the department’s own doctors.

The medical staff currently consists of 26 specialists, 12 doctors at the introductory and main training levels. There are 6 chief nurses who together lead about 260 nurses distributed across the intensive care unit, recovery unit, operating theaters, anesthesia unit, planned surgery Esbjerg and planned surgery Grindsted. The department also handles planning and booking of operations in central booking.

Your main workplace will be at Esbjerg and Grindsted Hospitals.

Anesthesia and Intensive Care consists of

Anesthesia Department (Esbjerg, Grindsted and Brørup). A total of about 17,000 anesthesias are performed annually. Anesthesia is provided within gynecology/obstetrics, urology, ENT, orthopedics, organ-, jaw- and plastic surgery

Central booking has the booking responsibility in all specialties for elective operations at Esbjerg and Grindsted Hospitals

Intensive care unit has 10 beds. About 850 patients are admitted per year

Planned Surgery Esbjerg receives all elective surgery patients and handles day surgery from specialties including parenchymal surgery, orthopedic surgery, gynecologic surgery, urology, breast surgery, ENT surgery and plastic surgery

Planned Surgery Grindsted handles elective orthopedic and parenchymal surgery

Prehospital department has a 24-hour doctor car, covered by the department's own doctors

Education we are staffed for 5 introductory positions and 4 main training programs annually

There is close interdisciplinary collaboration between the department's educational responsible staff. Please read our latest Inspector’s Report

The department has attached nursing and medical students as part of the “stamafdelingskonceptet” in relation to medical education at Esbjerg Hospital, University Hospital of Southern Denmark. A clinical associate professor has been allocated for this purpose

The department has attached anesthesia and intensive care trainees

Research in the department is highly prioritized and we strive to have 2-3 doctors enrolled in a Ph.D. program at all times as far as possible. There is also attached a research responsible consultant who facilitates and supports research conducted by the department. The hospital’s research department provides support in the form of release time for research activities, such as protocol writing

In the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care you will become part of a team of positive, forward-thinking, engaged, active and good-humored colleagues.

Training

We have a good training environment in the department which is highlighted, among other places, in the latest Inspector’s Report from 2022 which can be read here, just as in 2023 we won the Health Authority’s prize for the country’s best training department.

Every six months an internal training evaluation is carried out, where the responses show a high level of satisfaction among the department’s trainee doctors.

Our training responsible consultant/overlæge develops an 8-week introductory program that will accelerate your anesthesiological competencies under the guidance of engaged and responsible colleagues.

The training program consists of intensive training and formal teaching beyond the region’s courses. Here we gladly use clinical simulation and skill training at the hospital’s simulation and manikin center (LAKK). At the same time you will receive training in the use of ultrasound on both intensive care and surgical patients, as well as the placement of an epidural catheter, CVP and ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. These competencies, as well as resuscitation calls and trauma admissions, you will handle as a pre-call, possibly supervised, after the introduction period.

A close cross-disciplinary collaboration makes it possible for you to gain teaching experience by teaching different groups (nurses, doctors and students).

Are you interested?

If you want to hear more about the position you are welcome to contact Chief Physician Morten Lund Christiansen at tel.: 2151 3056 or send an email to the training responsible consultant/overlæge Rikke Frank Aagaard Johnsen at [email protected]

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the agreement for Junior Doctors.

Submit your motivated application and CV based on the seven medical roles no later than 01.11.26

We will hold interviews on 18.11.26

Please note; the interview will be held in person and is not offered as a default virtual meeting, however in special cases after a concrete assessment another meeting form can be arranged.

Documentation of obtained authorization as a physician must be attached to the application.