Newly created position as ambulatory director at the Ambulatory for Affective Disorders and Research Clinic

Do you want to lead a specialized psychiatric outpatient clinic where professional quality, good staff management and efficient patient pathways go hand in hand?

We are seeking an outpatient director for the Outpatient Clinic for Affective Disorders & Research Clinic in the Department of General Psychiatry, North, Brønderslev. The position is newly established, and you will therefore have a strong degree of influence from the start and the opportunity to shape it yourself.

We offer an exciting leadership position with responsibility for staff management, daily operations, capacity management and professional development in an outpatient clinic with high professionalism and strong interdisciplinary competencies. In addition, the affective outpatient clinic is combined with the department's research clinic, which is in its early stages.

About the job

As outpatient director you will be responsible for the daily management and operation of the outpatient clinic, with a focus on staff management, capacity management, prioritization and quality in patient pathways.

You must ensure an appropriate use of the outpatient clinic's resources and competencies, as well as ongoing follow-up on activity, productivity and capacity. The task involves translating the department's overarching goals and framework into concrete priorities in daily practice and creating coherence between staffing, treatment capacity, waiting times and requirements for assessment and treatment.

A central part of the role is to ensure efficient and coherent patient pathways, compliance with patient rights and systematic follow-up on operations. This requires you to maintain an overview, make clear decisions and balance operational considerations with professional quality and staff well-being.

You are also responsible for setting direction for the staff group, supporting a good working environment and creating frameworks for professional development and implementation of new treatment offerings and workflows.

As outpatient director you report administratively to the Chief Nurse in the department management and perform operational and leadership tasks within the department's predefined goals and framework.

About the Outpatient Clinic for Affective Disorders

In the Outpatient Clinic for Affective Disorders we are a wonderful group of staff who are all passionate about psychiatry. As the leader of the Outpatient Clinic for Affective Disorders you will have leadership responsibility for 15 staff members who are distributed among nurses, psychologists, clinical psychologists and social workers. The outpatient clinic also employs doctors and secretaries with whom you do not have managerial responsibility but with whom you work closely in daily patient pathways.

The outpatient clinic also functions as a clinical education site for nursing students, medical students, psychologists and specialist psychology candidates .

The outpatient clinic works with development regarding resources and well-organized treatment pathways. We are currently focusing on several methods and tools in psychiatric nursing based on patient involvement and respect for the patient’s time.

About the Research Clinic

The Research Clinic shall develop into a strong, integrated environment for clinical treatment and research in Brønderslev. A central focus will be patients with severely treatment-resistant unipolar depression, where systematic evaluation, specialized treatment offerings and structured follow-up are combined with clinical research.

The Research Clinic shall also provide a framework for clinical trials, both in collaboration with the life sciences industry and through investigator-initiated projects. The aim is to build a flexible research infrastructure that can support clinical trials broadly within psychiatry.

As outpatient director you will play a central role in the establishment and ongoing development of the clinic, including creating the organizational and operational framework that ensures a close interaction between patient care and research.

About you

We are looking for a leader who dares to try something new. Someone who can create followers, clear direction and engagement in an interdisciplinary organization with high professional complexity.

We expect you to

• Have a health-professional education and broad clinical experience from psychiatry.
• Have leadership experience and preferably a relevant leadership education or motivation to start one.
• Have an understanding of operations management, capacity management and resource utilization, and the ability to systematically follow up on activity and productivity.
• Be able to create an overview, prioritize tasks and make clear decisions in a complex daily life.
• Be able to translate overarching goals into concrete actions and create momentum in both operations and development.
• Have strong communication skills and be able to create clarity, involvement and a high level of information.
• Work actively for a good working environment, staff well-being and constructive interdisciplinary collaboration.

As a leader you are visible, clear and trust-building. You succeed in creating frameworks and setting direction while involving staff expertise and supporting their independence. You work in a structured and flexible way and can balance operational considerations, professional ambitions and staff needs.

Leadership organization and collaboration

You will become part of the Department of General Psychiatry, North, Aalborg University Hospital, and collaborate closely with the department management, outpatient clinic staff and other leaders.

Daily management is carried out within the goals and framework set by the department management. The overall financial responsibility lies with the department management, while you are responsible for daily operational control as well as prioritization and follow-up on the outpatient clinic’s capacity and productivity.

There is also close collaboration across the psychiatric departments in the North Jutland Region to support coherence, quality and joint development.

We offer

You will become part of the Department of General Psychiatry, North, Aalborg University Hospital, Region North Jutland – an organization in continuous development with the patient at the center.

As outpatient director you will

• Have an exciting leadership position with the opportunity to influence the ongoing development of a specialized outpatient clinic.
• A dedicated interdisciplinary staff group with high professionalism.
• A close collaboration with the outpatient clinic’s chief physician and the rest of the leadership.
• Opportunities to combine staff management, operational control and professional development.
• Good opportunities for personal and managerial development tailored to your experience and needs.
• A mentoring program to support you in your leadership role.
• An workplace community focused on quality, collaboration, education and a good working environment.

You will become the daily leader of a broadly composed staff group consisting of doctors, specialist psychologists, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, a physiotherapist and a social worker.

We look forward to welcoming a new leader who, together with the staff and the other leadership, will further develop the outpatient clinic and create the best possible framework for patients and staff.

Want to know more

If you have questions about the position, or would like to learn more about the role, you are welcome to contact:

Chief Nurse Louise Hjortlund Tetsche

Tel: 2030 7049

MD, PhD, Professor René Ernst Nielsen

Tel: 2872 2962

For information about other units in the department, please refer to the North Department of General Psychiatry website - Department of General Psychiatry, North

Practical information

Position: Full-time, 37 hours per week, start 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Salary and terms of employment: Salary and terms of employment according to the applicable agreement for leaders in the Health Service area under the Health Cartel, in collaboration with the relevant organization.

Start date: 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application deadline: 22 November 2026.

Interviews: Interviews will be held on 26 November 2026.

Recruitment process

• We will check references for the person we intend to hire.
• If required for the position, we will also obtain a criminal record and a child safeguarding certificate.
• Education of students and trainees is one of the Department of General Psychiatry's core tasks, to which all staff contribute.

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