Nurse for the Danish Red Cross asylum department at Sandholm Reception Center

Are you a nurse who is passionate about making a difference for people in difficult life situations and want to work in the world's largest humanitarian organization, where compassion is the core value? Do you want to have a different nursing job during daytime hours in a workplace driven by commitment, professionalism and solidarity, and where you meet many nationalities and have varied tasks? Then you should read on.

The Danish Red Cross asylum department is seeking a nurse for the health clinic at the Sandholm Center, located near Allerød.

Sandholm is a reception center for all new asylum seekers coming to Denmark.

Read more about Reception Center Sandholm here.

About working at our health clinics

As a nurse you will be part of a strong multidisciplinary team consisting of other nurses, a public health nurse as well as affiliated psychologists, psychiatrist and doctors. In addition, health staff coordinate and collaborate with the asylum department's medically responsible physician, who monitors the overall health care operations in the asylum department. The framework for health services to asylum seekers is the Danish Red Cross asylum department's contract with the Danish Immigration Service.

We work based on the principle of participation and strive to ensure that each asylum seeker has access to health services as well as health promotion and disease prevention that support the individual in taking care of their own health.

Our work is under continuous development aimed at quality assuring the treatment offer to the center's residents and patient safety through planning and implementation of quality-improving initiatives. This particularly includes a continuous focus on improving and implementing clinical guidelines and procedures, ongoing strengthening of professional competencies and the professional approach in our treatment offerings.

Your tasks

Overall, you will help ensure that the health function's tasks are performed in accordance with good professional practice and with the duties otherwise set out in the legislation for health care activities. Your primary task will be medical intake interview and preparation of a health and vulnerability check for newly arrived adult asylum seekers. The purpose of the interview is to clarify physical health, including infectious diseases, particularly HIV, hepatitis and TB.

In addition, the interview includes assessment of mental health including consequences of torture. Further, any missing medication and serious treatable illness will be clarified.

In addition, the following tasks will be included in your portfolio, albeit to varying degrees:

• Independent nursing consultations in an open clinic and scheduled conversations
• Referral to treatment
• Follow-up of care pathways
• Coordination of the health care work around the individual resident, including collaboration with internal and external partners
• Administrative tasks for bail applications to the Danish Immigration Service regarding health treatment at hospitals, among others
• Provision of contact nursing care tasks in relation to residents with special needs
• Communication of knowledge to residents about the connection between living conditions, lifestyle, health and disease
• Clinical nursing tasks – including e.g. medication management, wound care, swabs, and delegated examinations (e.g., urine strips, strep A).
• Participation in internal emergency response

A bit about you

It is a requirement that you hold Danish authorization as a nurse. You preferably have good knowledge of or are willing to familiarize yourself with the complex health picture characterizing the target group, including occurrences of physical and mental illness, trends and health-related challenges as a result of, for example, cultural influence, pressures from flight and other factors.

In addition we place importance on the following

• Documented versatile experience as a nurse – preferably from a field with a target group characterized by a high degree of cultural diversity
• Good overview and ability to navigate a daily life with diverse tasks
• You thrive on combining structure and systematic task handling with the ability to adapt and respond to new needs
• Takes responsibility and follows through on tasks
• Good collaboration skills and ability to participate in multidisciplinary collaboration
• Proficient in oral and written communication in Danish due to documentation requirements and other written work within the organization and with external actors
• Good in English; knowledge of several languages would be an advantage
• Strong digital skills and preferably experience with electronic health records

We offer

• Exciting work in a politically governed organization with a humanitarian value base
• Good opportunities for professional and personal development through courses, continuing education and three-to-four annual topic and conference days together with staff from the other health clinics in the asylum department
• A strong sense of community with competent and dedicated colleagues, both within the health professional field and across disciplines
• Mandatory supervision
• Work on weekdays during daytime

Salary and employment terms

You are employed under the collective agreement with DSR (State).

Working hours: 35-37 hours per week in the time frame 7:00-18:00

Start date: As soon as possible after further agreement, no later than 1 December 2026

Workplace: Sandholmgårdsvej 40, 3460 Birkerød

Driving license: Would be an advantage

Documents: Please note that a child certificate will be obtained upon employment, and you must present a private criminal record certificate.

Further information: Can be obtained by contacting the health director Michelle Wittchen at [email protected] and phone 4020 0571 (from week 43)

Application deadline: 23 October 2026

Hiring interviews: Expected to be held in week 44

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Application deadline: 23 October 2026

Location: Sandholmgårdsvej 40, 3460 Birkerød