Doctor for Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in the Copenhagen Municipality

Do you have solid experience as a doctor and an interest in working with patients with substance use problems and often social vulnerability?

About the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Copenhagen

Substance Abuse Treatment Copenhagen is Denmark's largest substance abuse treatment center spread across 10 sites around Copenhagen with departments for opioid substitution treatment, alcohol and drug treatment, heroin treatment, day treatment, adolescent treatment, as well as outreach and forward-leaning substance abuse treatment in addition to services for pregnant women and families.

The medical group consists of two senior consultants and 19 doctors, most of whom are specialists in general medicine. We work in local teams and hold regular medical meetings in the overall medical group every two weeks.

The Medical Team North, which you will join, handles medical treatment for about 350 patients distributed across

• a substitution unit on Ørnevej, providing multidisciplinary substance abuse treatment for opioid-dependent patients
• a specialist unit for physician-prescribed heroin treatment, Valmuen on Tomsgårdsvej
• a specialist unit on Tomsgårdsvej with a social-pedagogical drop-in function and substance abuse treatment for a group of citizens with a high degree of comorbidity

You will have professional fellowship with the other doctors in the team and will furthermore be part of the overall medical group in Substance Abuse Treatment Copenhagen. In connection with holidays, illness and courses we collaborate on medical coverage across the entire Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

The medical tasks

The medical treatment is described in the Health Authority's Guideline to doctors treating opioid-dependent patients with substitution medication: legal requirements and recommendations | Health Authority

You will in close collaboration with medical colleagues, health personnel and substance abuse workers undertake the medical substance abuse treatment, including substitution treatment, screening for hepatitis and HIV, evaluation of substance-related psychiatric and somatic disorders, and teaching patients in overdose treatment.

As a doctor you are expected to contribute to the professional development of other professional groups, and there is close cooperation with the local management in coordinating the health care efforts. You will focus on somatic and psychiatric diseases and establish contact with the established health care system when relevant.

You will enter into broad collaboration with both internal and external actors, including social home care, street-level interventions, job centers, Denmark's prisons, shelters, housing facilities, homeless and vulnerable units, general practitioners and hospitals, including close cooperation with infectious disease outpatient clinics. There is good local cooperation with Flex General Practice and Flex Clinic at Bispebjerg Hospital regarding somatic issues and cooperation with psychiatry on treatment of patients with dual diagnosis.

About you

We emphasize that you

• are a board-certified specialist in a relevant specialty, e.g. general medicine, psychiatry, social medicine (non-specialists may also apply)
• have solid experience as a physician and an interest in working with patients with substance use problems and often social vulnerability
• can work independently, systematically, in a structured and instruction-based manner with tasks in the health care effort
• place emphasis on multidisciplinary and team-based collaboration
• have openness and good communication skills in patient work
• wish to contribute to ensuring coherence in the holistic and multidisciplinary treatment
• have good knowledge of the established health care system and are able to bridge to it

We can offer

• a shift-free position with daytime hours on weekdays
• a dynamic and development-oriented workplace with broad professional range and dedicated colleagues
• a thorough introduction to the work and a scheduled induction program in which you will follow with experienced colleagues
• multidisciplinary local staff groups with close collaboration on social and health care activities
• good physician colleagues with long experience in the area, both in the local medical team and in the overall medical group in the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
• opportunity for close sparring with physician colleagues in the team with the clinical chief physician on the phone and discussions with the extended medical group
• a comprehensive and practically oriented instruction collection
• focus on professional development
• regular supervision
• opportunity to join the heroin clinic on duty roster after relevant training and competencies
• user-friendly IT system, Novax

Employment terms

Appointment on December 1, 2026. The position is 37 hours per week with daytime hours on weekdays.

Salary follows the level for Junior Doctors and the Danish Regions. Other terms follow the collective agreement for municipal doctors.

A criminal record check will be obtained before employment.

Further information

For more information about the position, please contact Clinical Chief Physician Katrine Marstrand at 21 65 55 83 or Unit Leader Tom Foged at 51 14 29 43.

We look forward to reading your motivated application.

Application deadline: Apply via the link no later than Sunday, October 25, 2026

Employment interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.

Application deadline: Oct 25, 2026

Department: Islands Brygge 37 2300 Copenhagen S

Location: Social Administration