Manager in Care and Rehabilitation, Health and Care Aarhus Municipality

Leader in Care and Rehabilitation, Health and Care Aarhus Municipality

Leader wanted for Team Skødstrup in Care and Rehabilitation, District North

Can your leadership make Aarhus Municipality the best place to be an older citizen?

Are you motivated by helping to support older homebound citizens to live as independently and meaningfully as possible, and offer citizens the very best rehabilitation, care and support? Are you a leader with strategic insight, the ability to align development and finances, and with the wellbeing of others and yourself in mind? Do you succeed as a leader by showing the way and making things work through others? And do you thrive with responsibility and ample opportunity to shape the framework yourself?

Then you may be exactly the leader we are looking for in the job as Leader in Care and Rehabilitation in District North for our team in Skødstrup.

In Health and Care we work from our strategy, the five guiding principles – and your leadership task is, among other things, to help translate these into concrete practice. We are also a politically steered organization and work based on the mayor's guidelines, which set the direction for our task solving and development.

About the position

You will become the leader of a multidisciplinary group. We place emphasis on hiring engaged social and health assistants, social and health care assistants, resource coordinators, occupational/physical therapists, nurses, as well as unskilled staff. In addition, there is a competency-developing nurse and a competency-developing occupational therapist or physiotherapist in the team, who are tasked with conducting systematic and ongoing competency development of the staff.

We place a very high value on professionalism, and on employees having the opportunity to develop continuously within the organization's core tasks.

Leadership where multidisciplinary coordination of task solving is a foundation is essential to your approach.

An important task is to create the best life for the citizen, where the citizen can live as independently as possible, and have the opportunity to live the life they want and have goals for. We therefore integrate rehabilitation and interdisciplinarity into all contexts.

The task in Care and Rehabilitation includes providing nursing, treatment, care, rehabilitation and training to homebound citizens, and creating good and coherent citizen journeys that are based on what is important for the citizen.

We place emphasis on good dialogue, culture and relationships, rehabilitation, care and competence development, based on data-driven leadership. Care and Rehabilitation also has a strong focus on continuous and systematic quality development of both professional, organizational and citizen-experienced quality.

Important efforts in Care and Rehabilitation are citizen education, welfare technology, collaboration with citizens' families/networks, civil society/local communities, and ensuring that the right competencies are present in each citizen's journey.

As a leader your most important daily collaborators are the citizens, the citizens' families/networks, employees, peer leaders and the practicing physicians. We seek a leader who both has a hands-on and clear leadership style and can provide direction for the staff in the team, as well as contribute to the strategic direction of the organization.

You will be the leader of a team of permanent staff in collaboration with a deputy leader. It is important that the team has a good multidisciplinary collaboration, works relationally, is accommodating and can help realize the intentions behind the Elderly Act and a forthcoming Health reform.

Furthermore you will collaborate across the Health and Care areas, and annual theme days, network meetings and leadership gatherings are held.

You can read more in the job description: Position as leader in home care

About the place

Care and Rehabilitation Team Skødstrup in District North is part of the Department of Health and Care in Aarhus Municipality.

In Care and Rehabilitation there are three districts. District North consists of 11 multidisciplinary teams and four day centers. You will become part of a leadership team with 12 leaders and 12 deputy leaders, who work together strategically, clinically and practically to ensure coherent support to citizens in their own homes based on an interdisciplinary, coordinated and rehabilitative approach, where the citizen's goals and wishes are the driving force.

The leadership group in District North is characterized by high professionalism, a strong collegial sense of community and a shared responsibility for both results and relationships. Based on relational coordination, we collaborate closely, help each other across teams, and insist on joint solutions to benefit citizens, staff and the district's development.

Care and Rehabilitation Team Skødstrup is based at Grenåvej 701, 8541 Skødstrup.

Approximately 50 employees are assigned to a citizen base of about 200 citizens.

Team Skødstrup is part of a close network collaboration with the three neighboring teams; Skæring, Hjortshøj and Risskov and the associated health units regarding tasks related to concrete citizen journeys.

Candidate profile

As a future leader in Care and Rehabilitation in District North, it is important that you

• Have a health professional education and a clear leadership style that can inspire and motivate staff, and the ability to set direction for the team's development.
• Are an inclusive and sustainable person who can make things happen through others and can set clear guidelines and show the way there.
• Can create and maintain good relationships, through problem-solving and forward-moving communication.
• Reflect on your own practice and can lead, develop and create reflection among staff and colleagues.
• Put the citizen at the center.
• Have a sharp eye for operations and manage resources and finances with a steady hand.
• Engage in leadership of culture.
• Can handle dilemmas, prioritize and make necessary decisions—even when this is difficult.
• Can actively work to create a good working environment physically and mentally – for both your staff and yourself.
• Can translate and implement Health and Care's strategy - the 5 guiding principles – in your part of the organization.

Salary and employment terms

The position is expected to commence January 1, 2027.

Salary and employment terms are according to current collective agreement. According to a preliminary agreement made with the professional organizations for managers in Aarhus Municipality, Health and Care, the annual salary for managers in home care is DKK 632,501 excluding pension. Final salary determination occurs after negotiation with the negotiating professional organization based on qualifications. Final salary determination occurs after negotiation with the negotiating professional organization based on qualifications.

Want to know more?

Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting the district manager for Care and Rehabilitation, District North, Mette Skjærbæk Svane at [email protected] or on phone 21 44 66 64.

Application

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Only when you have received a receipt by email have we received your application.

We expect to conduct 1st interview on November 17, 2026 and 2nd interview on November 24, 2026.

In connection with the recruitment of leaders and managers, we use personality profiling if you proceed to a second interview, and there will therefore be profile feedback on November 19 between 12 – 15.

In Health and Care we have a general policy of obtaining references and possibly criminal record checks in connection with hiring. You should therefore expect to be asked about this if we offer you the position.

1st interview round

Date and time: November 17, 2026 between 08:30 - 15:30.

Place: Folkehuset Brabrand

Profile feedback to candidates

Date and time: November 19 between 12:00 – 15:00.

Virtually via Microsoft Teams.

2nd interview round

Date and time: November 24, 2026 between 08:00 - 15:00.

Place: Folkehuset Brabrand

If you are invited to an interview, you will meet a broadly represented hiring committee that reflects the collaboration relationships and professional perspectives characteristic of the position.

About us

The Municipal Department of Health and Care (MSO) in Aarhus Municipality works with care for the elderly and health for all citizens.

Our strategy The five guiding principles gives direction to our work and challenges our behavior and attitudes – with the simple purpose that we become a little better every day at making our work beneficial for the citizens of Aarhus. Read more about our strategy and framework before the first interview, see Leadership job (aarhus.dk)

As a new leader you will be met by a mandatory onboarding program, and we emphasize that all our leaders continuously develop their competencies. Therefore we have both in-house leadership training, and there is an opportunity to take the leadership program ” Diploma in Leadership ” over several years.

Aarhus Municipality regards diversity as a resource and therefore encourages everyone - regardless of age, gender, disability, lifestyle, religion or ethnic origin - to apply for the position.

Aarhus Municipality is one of Jutland's largest workplaces. 28,000 professional and passionate colleagues work every day to ensure that we are a good city for everyone. As an employee of Aarhus Municipality you turn visions into reality and create development, community and well-being. Here there is respect for professionalism, room for diversity and opportunities for growth.

We have ambitions for the city – and for you. Come and join us!

About Aarhus Municipality as an employer

Aarhus Municipality is among Jutland's largest workplaces, where 28,000 professional and passionate colleagues every day work to turn visions into reality and create value for citizens and the surrounding society. We are an employer that values professionalism and collaboration highly and we believe that our differences help make Aarhus a good city for all. Together we work for a sustainable and inclusive city where employees, citizens, businesses and nature can thrive and flourish. We have ambitions for the city - and for you. Come and be part of it!

As an employee of Aarhus Municipality you turn visions into reality and create development, community and well-being. Here there is respect for professionalism, room for diversity and opportunity for growth.

Application deadline

12-11-2026

Start date

01-01-2027

Weekly working hours

37

Job category

Management

Workplace

Grenåvej 701 8541 Skødstrup

Contact

Mette Skjærbæk Svane

Home care chief North

21446664