Nurse sought for Randers Remand Prison - expansion with a focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable inmates during detention

Would you like to use your nursing professional skills in a framework where you work clinically broadly, cross-disciplinary and with a clear societal impact? We are seeking a nurse for the Health Unit in Randers Prison as part of an upscaling. The upscaling occurs in connection with increased focus on health and interventions for vulnerable and at-risk inmates in light of the new criminal reform.

The position is initially 37 hours per week, and is intended to be filled on 1 January 2027 or by agreement.

About the workplace

You will, as a prison nurse, be based under the Health Unit in the District Office in the West Prison Circle with the primary workplace in Randers Prison.

You will in cooperation with your experienced nursing colleague in the prison, a physician and a psychiatrist be responsible for providing the health care services to the inmates.

We offer somewhat different frameworks, where a key competence for you must be the ability to collaborate positively in a multidisciplinary environment with prison guards, nursing colleagues, doctors, psychiatrists, external partners such as hospitals and addiction centers.

The Health Unit delivers health services at a primary care level - with a particular focus on complexity, social vulnerability, substance abuse, mental distress and chronic disease.

The job as prison nurse

The clinical tasks are very versatile and with varying complexity and can best be likened to the workflow of a general practice, as inmates contact the nursing clinic with issues they otherwise would have consulted their own doctor about.

It is essential in the job that you want to work with a patient group living in a prison environment and often with multifaceted complex health issues of physical, mental and social nature, often combined with compliance problems.

In the upscaling there is a strengthening of the professional effort towards the vulnerable - e.g. through early detection, continuity, stable medication, focus on patient safety and close multidisciplinary collaboration, as well as a rehabilitative approach, where we support the inmate’s self-care, coping and health competencies. This can include targeted guidance, motivational conversations and support to navigate treatment and appointments - also with a view to better sector transitions upon release.

Prison nursing requires high professionalism as well as an empathetic, humane, accommodating and acknowledging approach, where it is often required to think outside the box within the given framework to solve the task.

The nursing tasks consist among other things of

• Initial health interviews at admission focusing on screening for chronic and mental disorders.
• Independent nursing consultations with basis in the inmates’ somatic, mental and chronic issues, including advising and guiding on health-preserving conditions and self-care.
• Referral to, participation in, and follow-up on doctor/psychiatrist consultations.
• Planning, follow-up, control and coordination of new and ongoing treatment courses of both acute and chronic character, including performing ECG, LFU, wound care, vaccinations and similar clinical work.
• Management of medication dosing for inmates at the facility.
• Act as a health professional sparring partner for prison-related colleagues.

Who are you?

We are looking for a colleague whose professional toolbox is in order, and who can also thrive in a dynamic and different environment, with clear frameworks, but basically a place, and a nursing community with ambitions. We focus on quality, standardization of workflows, patient safety and competence development.

We place particular weight on the following criteria

• It is an unwavering requirement that you have been a trained nurse for several years.
• It is essential that you professionally are able to quickly identify, detect and assess nursing issues and independently act on these.
• You must have a high degree of self-management, independence, sense of responsibility and the ability to contribute positively to a small mono-disciplinary work community, which is based on the principles of a self-managing team with leadership at a distance.
• You must be able to work structurally, and have a focus on patient safety.
• You must have good collaboration skills with the ability to engage in problem-solving in collaborative relationships, as cross-disciplinary collaboration with the prison’s other professional groups is of decisive importance in daily life.
• You are present and equipped with a friendly, calm, positive and humane life view and preferably invest yourself to create a good collective working environment with learning, job satisfaction, well-being and good collaborative relationships at the forefront.
• You are endowed with good pedagogical abilities and can communicate safely and clearly in guidance to both inmates and staff.
• You must have broad medical experience from for example acute/somatic, substance abuse treatment, home care, psychiatry or social medical offerings.
• You should rest in your professional field and have an interest in a complex clinical field where somatic, psychiatry, addiction and social vulnerability often overlap.

Salary and terms of employment

Employment and remuneration are in accordance with the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and

The Danish Union of Teachers and CO10, as well as the collective agreement for nurses in the state and

the agreement on a new pay system for civil servants and civil-service-like employed nurses in the

state between CO10 and any local agreements entered into here. In addition, possible allowances may be negotiated depending on experience and qualifications.

• The position is a permanent position with a weekly working time of 37 hours.
• The employment area is Denmark’s Prisons, and the primary workplace is East Jutland prisons, supervision, youth supervision and release prison, Randers Prison, Møllestræde 8, 8900 Randers.
• The position is to be filled from 1 January 2027.

Note

There is a good possibility to have influence on planning of your own working time based on the operation. Working hours are always daytime, and with fixed attendances after agreement at 7.30/8.00 and time off after agreement between 15.00/16.00.

In principle, there is never work on weekends or holidays.

In vacations and in case of illness you are self-supporting on the campuses with the understanding that the health unit’s nurses help cover for each other. Therefore you must be prepared to substitute in, for example, Randers Prison during vacation.

About us

The Health Unit is a unit in Denmark’s Prisons, where the professional and staff responsibilities for the medical and nursing group are placed under a health professional leadership consisting of a Chief Doctor and a Chief Nurse.

We offer you among other things professional sparring in daily life, focused supervision, relevant continuing education and participation in courses, including a diploma module for prison nurses The criminal justice system , diploma-awarding NADA course, participation in professional theme days with other nursing colleagues in the area at least 2 times a year, in addition to online webinars with professional content every month.

In the Health Unit we provide health care equivalent to general practice to the area’s approx. inmates, distributed over 29 campuses, covering prisons, open and closed prisons in Jutland and Funen.

Randers Prison has 43 places. The prison is a category 2 prison, which means a particularly high security level. The prison primarily receives male inmates, but at times also female inmates. In principle this concerns pre-trial detainees, but occasionally also inmates serving shorter sentences.

You can read more about us on the website https://www.danmarksfængsler.dk/

Security work in Denmark’s Prisons is an integral part of the job and highly valued. There is zero tolerance with regard to violence and threats.

Application

You apply for the position by clicking on "Search for the position".

Your application with CV, documentation of education and prior experience as well as references must be received in the recruitment system no later than 13 November 2026.

We expect to hold interviews in week 47 at the West District Office in Aarhus.

A prerequisite for employment in the position is that if you are called for an interview, you consent to Denmark’s Prisons obtaining and assessing information about you in the Central Criminal Register. If you are called for an interview, you must bring photo identification, e.g., passport or driving license.

Denmark’s Prisons encourage all interested to apply for the position regardless of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic origin.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the Chief Nurse Camilla Hungeberg by email; [email protected]

We look forward to receiving your application and hope you want to become part of the Health Unit in Denmark’s Prisons, West Prison Circle.