Quality Consultant with a Focus on Psychiatry, Quality Development and Implementation – Southern Jutland Hospital

Quality Department at Sygehus Sønderjylland is seeking a quality consultant who is passionate about quality development and implementation, with start date from 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Task

As a quality consultant you will play an important role in Sygehus Sønderjylland's work with quality development, with a main emphasis on the psychiatry area. You will work closely with management, clinicians, and other partners, and you will have a coordinating and supporting role in translating professional decisions into practice.

You will become part of a team of four dedicated employees who work closely together on the clinical quality databases and quality development.

Your tasks will include

Administrative support for the regional forum: Quality Group for personality disorders. The task consists of planning and coordinating meetings, agendas, follow-up and ensuring progress.

Support implementation of initiatives from the other regional quality groups for affective disorders, psychoses as well as ADHD and developmental disorders and the guidelines that come from the “Danish Multidisciplinary Psychiatry Groups” and translate professional recommendations into concrete workflows and actions in the organization.

Hospital contact person for the psychiatric clinical quality databases , where the task is to support the use of results for learning and quality development in collaboration with the database managers in Psychiatry and thereby support that the work with the clinical quality databases is linked with the quality groups' work locally.

Case processing , including preparation of case presentations, briefings, presentations and other communication to management and relevant fora, as well as coordinating and collaborating across professional groups, departments, hospitals and regional collaboration interfaces.

In time you will have other consultant tasks within the Quality Department’s area.

Experience and background

Your experience and background can be varied, but we expect you to match several of the following:

• Experience with consultancy work and preferably with implementation and quality development
• Familiarity with health service task solving. Knowledge of psychiatry is an advantage
• Academic background and preferably a master's degree or equivalent
• Ability to create structure, overview and progress in processes with many stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate complex professional material into clear and usable communication
• Good collaboration skills – also to collaborate with different professional groups and management levels
• Ability to work independently and systematically and at the same time actively contribute to the team’s joint tasks.

We offer

We place emphasis on professional sparring, good collaboration and on helping each other with both own and joint tasks.

In our department you get

• A good working environment with freedom with responsibility and good collaboration relations
• A thorough introduction to your tasks
• Good opportunities for professional and personal competence development

Your primary workplace is in Aabenraa. There can also be work days on the hospital’s campuses in Sønderborg and Tønder, and therefore a car is necessary.

About us

The Quality Department is a staff function at Sygehus Sønderjylland. With 18 employees we support the hospital management in ensuring and developing organizational, professional and patient-experienced quality.

We work in a team-based manner and handle overarching tasks within quality development, patient safety, quality databases, user involvement and volunteerism, hygiene and patient pathways at Sygehus Sønderjylland. We value the use of data and evidence in improvement activities.

With us you become part of a dynamic and informal environment where collaboration, trust and credibility are core values. Collaboration and dialogue across professional groups, departments and staff is a natural part of the work. There can sometimes be many balls in the air and tight deadlines, so there can be periods with varying workloads.

Further information about Sygehus Sønderjylland and the Quality Department can be obtained at www.sygehussonderjylland.dk or by contacting Quality and Improvement Chief Thomas Lund Sørensen at 29748791 or [email protected] or Quality Consultant Lena Oechsle Jørgensen at 29323521 or [email protected]

Application deadline 15/11 2026, interviews 17/11 and possibly 2nd interview round 26/11.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position applied for. You will be informed of base salary, centrally set allowances and pension in the relevant collective agreement, in the invitation to a possible interview.

The application is sent via the below "apply for the position". Please attach your application, CV and any other relevant documents. Sygehus Sønderjylland always obtains references on the applicant offered the position.