Methodology consultant with experience in psychiatry for the Quality Institute of the Health Service (Copenhagen, Aalborg, Aarhus or Odense)

Do you have clinical experience from psychiatry and would you like to help support the development of clinical guidelines in close collaboration with the country\'s leading professionals within the field of psychiatry?

Then you might be the one we are looking for as a method consultant at the Health Authority\'s Quality Institute (SundK).

SundK has as part of the 10-year plan for Psychiatry and Mental Health been tasked with supporting the Danish Multidisciplinary Psychiatry Groups in developing clinical guidelines. Therefore we need another method consultant in SundK’s Quality Unit B - Psychiatry, Acute Illness, Pregnancy and Children.

About the position

You will become part of the Quality Unit B, which among other things supports the Danish Multidisciplinary Psychiatry Groups (DMPG) in the development and updating of clinical guidelines.

DMPG brings together professionals across specialties and sectors with the common goal of ensuring high and consistent quality in assessment, treatment and follow-up for people with mental disorders. As a method consultant you will play a central role in the collaboration with the professional environments and contribute to the guidelines being developed on an evidence-based basis and translated into usable recommendations for clinical practice.

You will work closely with psychiatrists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and other professional groups from across the country.

Furthermore you will be part of SundK\'s cross-cutting Guideline Function, where we develop common methods, tools and workflows across the organization.

Your tasks

You will among other things

• Support the development, updating and implementation of clinical guidelines in the psychiatry area
• Facilitate working groups and meetings with clinical experts and professional societies
• Advise on the choice of good topics, literature searches, evidence assessment and formulation of recommendations
• Contribute to translating research and evidence into practice-oriented recommendations
• Ensure progress of guideline projects in close collaboration with the professional environments
• Contribute to further development of methods, processes and tools in the guideline work
• Engage in cross-cutting collaborations with, among others, quality consultants and epidemiologists in SundK on quality, data and improvement of patient pathways

With us you get

• A central role in developing the quality work of psychiatry in the future
• Opportunity to work closely with some of the country\'s strongest professional environments
• A varied everyday life with both method work, process facilitation and development tasks
• An engaged and interdisciplinary working environment with high professionalism and helpful colleagues
• A high degree of independence and the opportunity to influence tasks and ways of working
• Good opportunities for professional and personal development.

About you

We imagine that you

• Have a relevant health sciences or health professional education as well as experience with quality development, evidence work or similar methodological tasks
• Have clinical experience from psychiatry and insight into the challenges and opportunities that characterize the field
• Are interested in evidence-based practice, quality development and clinical guidelines
• Work in a structured and analytical way
• Are good at building relationships and facilitating collaboration across professional groups and organizations
• Can drive processes independently while also engaging in close collaborations.

Salary and terms of employment

The position is 37 hours per week with permanent employment from 01.01.2027.

Salary and terms follow applicable collective agreement with possibility of negotiating an allowance.

You will be employed in the Central Denmark Region with work place in Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense or Copenhagen.

From January 1, 2027 SundK introduces a neutrality policy designed to support openness, transparency and trust in SundK\'s work with quality development and patient safety in the Danish health service.

As an employee of SundK you will be covered by the neutrality policy. Read more here: https://www.sundk.dk/nyheder/sundk-vedtager-habilitetspolitik/

Application

Send your application, CV, certificates and any other relevant documents via our online system no later than 9 November 2026. We will hold the recruitment interviews on 16 November 2026 in Aarhus.

If you have questions about working as a method consultant in our Guideline Function, you are welcome to contact Function Leader Sasja Jul Håkonsen at tel. 2478 6241. For matters related to personnel and the Quality Unit\'s tasks you are welcome to contact Unit Leader Katrine Abildtrup Nielsen at tel. 29 66 42 95.

About SundK

The Health Authority\'s Quality Institute aims to support stronger, database-based and more targeted quality work as well as better prioritization and resource use to benefit patient treatment in Denmark. The mission is to ensure high and uniform quality as well as efficient prioritization across the health service in close collaboration with health care actors.

We create synergy between five core areas

• Clinical guidelines
• Visitation guidelines
• Nationwide clinical quality databases
• Assessments and analyses of treatment methods and health technologies
• Work on adverse events and the Danish Patient Safety Database

We are about 180 employees spread across our four offices in Aarhus, Aalborg, Copenhagen and Odense. See more about Sundhealth\’s Quality Institute on our website SundK.dk

As Region Central Denmark undergoes ongoing savings and reorganizations, employees in redeployment who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Central Denmark is, pursuant to the EU directive on transparency of pay, which came into force 7 June 2026, obliged to inform you of the starting salary or a salary range for a position before offering employment.

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