Nursing Home Manager for Fjordparken Care Home

Are you passionate about professional quality, strong collaboration, and visible leadership? Do you find it motivating to set direction, build following, and develop both employees and practice? Then we have an exciting leadership position at Fjordparken Nursing Home.

We are seeking an engaged leader with a strong health-professional profile and solid experience with complex nursing. You will lead efforts to maintain and develop professional quality, support employees' competencies, and create the framework for effective collaboration across disciplines and with external partners.

About the position and the workplace

About Fjordparken Nursing Home

Fjordparken Nursing Home is situated in a scenic area in Hals with a view of the Limfjord and the ferry connection between Hals and Egense. Here we create the framework for a secure and homely daily life, where community, care, and respect for the individual are at the center.

Fjordparken has 50 places distributed as follows

• 6 respite places.
• 16 dementia places distributed across two departments
• 28 somatic places distributed across two departments

Fjordparken is characterized by a homely environment, strong communities, and a close connection to the local community. Our dedicated staff take the individual resident's wishes, resources, and needs as the starting point every day and work purposefully to promote self-determination, well-being, and a meaningful everyday life.

A home with life, community, and presence

At Fjordparken we create a daily life with vitality, presence, and meaningful communities. We offer a wide range of activities and experiences across the nursing home, so there is opportunity for participation, companionship, and joy for everyone – regardless of interests and needs.

We base our approach on each person's life story, habits, and interests and emphasize that residents have influence over their own daily life. With the values of the Older People’s Act as our starting point—self-determination, trust, and close collaboration with relatives, volunteers, and the local community—we strive to create the framework for a life with meaning and quality of life.

Volunteers, relatives, and local communities are important partners in our daily life. Together we create activities, presence, and experiences that bridge the nursing home and the outside world – and allow space for both community and individual wishes.

Your role as nursing home leader

As nursing home leader at Fjordparken you will join a management team consisting of you and an experienced and capable deputy leader. Together you share responsibility for ensuring smooth operations, high professional quality, and ongoing development of the nursing home.

You will have the overall management responsibility for approximately 68 employees, where your task is to set direction, create followers, and secure the framework for smooth operations and high professional quality. The workforce and the deputy leader comprise extensive professional knowledge and specialized competencies, which provide a solid foundation for both daily task execution and ongoing development. Your task will be to bring these competencies into play, set direction, and create a framework for shared responsibility and professional quality.

At Fjordparken we take as our starting point René Jensen's Reach out for collaboration – thank you! We expect that you as leader take active responsibility for developing strong working communities where collaboration and professionalism go hand in hand. You must set the direction for collaboration, support psychological safety, and create the framework for professional sparring, reflection, and learning.

Through clear and relationship-building leadership you must ensure that employees' competencies are utilized, and that shared responsibility and constructive dialogue contribute to high professional quality in care and nursing.

A good work environment creates quality in everyday life

At Fjordparken we prioritize employees' work environment and continuously work on developing it. We see well-being, professionalism, and good collaborative relationships as essential prerequisites for high quality in task execution.

We work toward a workplace characterized by open dialogue, professional sparring, and psychological safety, where employees dare to ask questions, share concerns, and give and receive constructive feedback. We see diversity as a strength and emphasize learning from both mistakes and experiences, taking joint responsibility for developing our practice.

We work purposefully with collaboration, clear communication, and ongoing professional development, because we know that employees who thrive and feel they are a valuable part of the community are better positioned to provide care and nursing of high quality.

Your core tasks and the framework for task execution will include

• Responsibility for daily operations with a focus on effective resource management, including recruitment, budget follow-up, shift planning, and prioritization of staff resources in relation to tasks and professional quality.
• Ensure person-centered care and nursing, based on the individual resident's life story, wishes, needs, resources, and self-determination.
• Ensure coherent and coordinated resident pathways in close collaboration with internal and external partners, based on the resident's needs and wishes.
• Create conditions for staff well-being and professional development and ensure that competencies match the complexity of tasks and residents' needs.
• Support a collaborative culture characterized by open dialogue, flexibility, and shared responsibility for the core task.
• Support open and trustful dialogue with relatives and ensure constructive collaboration based on the resident's wishes, well-being, and quality of life.
• Ensure that residents' individual needs are identified and met, and that they receive the relevant interventions and services in accordance with applicable law and quality standards.
• Ensure implementation and anchoring of professional guidelines and service levels in daily practice through clear leadership, systematic follow-up, and ongoing quality development.
• Anchor a rehabilitative approach in everyday life that supports residents' self-determination, mastery, and ability to maintain or develop their skills.

Our expectations of you as a leader

• Be clear and direction-giving, and able to translate the values of the Older People’s Act into concrete actions and create a shared understanding of what they mean in practice.
• Be courageous and decisive, and dare to challenge habits and existing workflows, make decisions, and stand firm even when changes create uncertainty or resistance.
• Work in a structured and systematic way with planning and prioritization and ensure coherence between tasks, staffing, and resources in a complex daily life.
• Create trusting collaborative relationships and engage, motivate and support employees in their daily task execution and professional development.
• Ensure professional quality and ongoing development by translating common goals, values, and decisions into concrete practice with a focus on dignified care and residents' well-being and quality of life.
• Communicate clearly and respectfully and meet residents, relatives, and staff with openness, presence, and curiosity.
• Take initiative and responsibility for operations and development through systematic follow-up on tasks and by continuously creating room for new thinking and improvement of practice.

Professional competencies

• Have a health-professional education, solid insight into the care and welfare field, and preferably leadership experience from a nursing home setting.
• Have experience with citizen-centered leadership and leadership within dementia care with focus on professional quality, well-being, and development.
• Practice person-centered leadership based on the individual resident's life history and needs and support staff in translating this approach into concrete care and nursing.
• Be able to translate relevant legislation into practice and ensure implementation, use, and ongoing follow-up on professional guidelines, quality standards, and action plans.
• Actively work to ensure professional quality, patient safety, documentation, and quality assurance and translate requirements and professional standards into concrete actions in daily care and nursing.
• Can translate a rehabilitative approach into practice and support residents' self-determination, mastery, and quality of life and develop employees' competencies regarding task complexity.
• Can coordinate and support interprofessional collaboration so that different professions and interventions contribute to coherent and holistic pathways.
• Have experience with health professional documentation in Cura and relevant IT systems and can support correct documentation as an integrated part of daily practice.
• Work systematically with adverse events, professional learning and prevention and translate experiences into concrete improvements.
• Have experience with vertical leadership and are able to create alignment, clear role distribution, and a constructive interaction between management levels.

Personal competencies

• Are prioritized and organizationally strong, and can balance residents' needs, staff work environment, professional quality, and organizational frameworks.
• Exhibit visible and presence-based leadership and are accessible to staff and colleagues with a focus on dialogue, sparring, and joint solutions.
• Contribute to the development of staff and practice through constructive dialogue, feedback, and an appreciative approach to learning and improvement.
• Communicate political decisions and organizational goals clearly and translate them into concrete practice so staff understand the direction and find meaning in their work.
• Work in a structured and systematic way with planning, coordination, and organization and consistently follow up on tasks, decisions, and agreements.
• Keep calm and maintain an overview in a busy daily life, make timely decisions, and find flexible, solution-oriented paths when needs and conditions change.
• Meet others with empathy, respect, and curiosity and build trusting relationships that strengthen collaboration and contribute to a positive and constructive work environment.
• Set clear direction and show leadership courage by making decisions while also involving staff perspectives and professional competencies.

We offer

• A versatile and meaningful leadership role with responsibility, influence, and the opportunity to make a difference for residents, staff, and professional quality.
• A leadership space with the opportunity to set direction and shape development, where we prioritize a good working environment and actively implement the Older People’s Act and development of holistic care.
• Committed and competent staff with diverse professional backgrounds who together take responsibility for quality in care and nursing.
• A dedicated leadership team where we prioritize sparring, shared direction, and development of our leadership practice.
• A workplace characterized by presence, respect, and trust, where open dialogue and collaboration form the basis for our shared task execution.
• A professional environment focusing on learning, reflection, and ongoing development of practice for the benefit of residents.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development where your competencies are utilized, and you have the chance to develop in the role of nursing home leader.
• A daily life where values are translated into action, and where together we create the best conditions for residents' self-determination, well-being, and quality of life.

Workplace address: Fjordparken, Fjordparken 2, 9370 Hals.

You are welcome to contact Susan Johanne Pedersen, head of residential care, tel.: 25 20 34 70 / [email protected]

Job description for nursing home leaders in Aalborg Municipality can be requested by contacting the chief secretary, Camilla Holmgreen Madsen at tel.: 25 20 34 86 / [email protected]

Employment interviews are expected to be held on

• 1st interview: 23.11.26
• 2nd interview: 27.11.26

Employment date: 01.01.27 or as agreed.

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and employment are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement between KL and the negotiating organization.

Prior to employment, we will obtain a criminal record and references.

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