Onboarding midwife sought for Zealand University Hospital in Roskilde

We are in the fortunate situation that we currently recruit many new colleagues and, in connection with this, have an increased number of onboarding activities. We are therefore seeking a midwife for a combined position as onboarding midwife and on-call, in a fixed-term employment of 12 months.

Are you passionate about midwifery and would you like to help tailor the best start for our newly employed midwives, nurses and social and health care assistants (SSA) in our maternity, delivery and postnatal ward, then it might be you we are looking for at the Gynecology/Obstetrics Department at Zealand University Hospital.

We continually need new skilled and dedicated employees and, at the same time, we take pride in giving them a sustainable start to their working life with us, whether they are newly educated or come with experience. We seek to achieve this among other things through a recruitment process where we make an effort to match expectations regarding competencies, culture and results, and from the start create structure for competence development and career paths.

As onboarding midwife you, in collaboration with our deputy chief midwives, mentors and your onboarding midwife colleague, have the overall responsibility to plan the onboarding of our newly employed staff on the maternity, delivery and postnatal ward.

We want our new employees to feel quickly part of the work place and, at the same time, to be able to start their tasks safely and securely. Here you have an important role together with the other onboarding midwife.

Your position will be divided 40/60, where 40% is as onboarding midwife and 60% in the clinic. You have the opportunity to work in several departments; where the delivery department will be one of them. There is also the possibility of midwife consultation, where you – when relevant – can introduce new colleagues to taking on consultations here in the house.

You should expect that your shifts in the clinic are distributed around the clock and you will be scheduled to work every 3rd–4th weekend.

Onboarding midwives’ tasks include, among other things, to

• Structure and plan an individualized introduction for the newly employed midwife/maternity nurse/SSA
• Create security, be a culture bearer, and onboard the new colleague into the professional agenda
• Initiate networking and professional goals
• Assist in follow-up and reflection conversations
• Support and provide feedback, including sparring and supervision that motivates and ensures learning
• Create coherence between introduction programs and career development, in collaboration with the deputy chief midwives
• Initiate teaching activities
• Develop and maintain introduction materials
• Contribute to other tasks that provide coherence in the department, e.g., publish a newsletter, be part of planning a theme day, etc.

Our profile as a university hospital and our size mean that your own professional competences in both normal birth and complicated birth are strengthened. We prioritise giving families and the midwife time and opportunity for continuity. As a department we are large enough for you to obtain specialist knowledge and small enough for you to become part of a community where you know your colleagues well. We know this creates both professional and personal security.

We can offer you

• Strong professional field and a department where competence development has many forms, ranging from participation in courses and conferences, team training and weekly case reviews, as well as short teaching sessions in daily work
• Focus on well-being with continuity and safe patient pathways
• A good interdisciplinary work environment where collaboration is characterised by mutual respect and sparring
• A workplace with a short path from ideas to testing, and where management is visible and close at hand
• Shift planning with focus on the sustainable midwife life
• An engaged and experienced onboarding midwife colleague who will help you get started well. You will be each other’s closest colleagues during your employment and tasks will be distributed and solved in a joint effort.

We wish that

• You have an appreciative approach to learning
• You are empathetic, listening and inclusive
• You can maintain an overview for yourself and others
• You are aware that you are a role model and culture bearer
• You can switch between administrative and clinical tasks
• You are an experienced clinician who also has the capacity to teach others during shifts

The position will be a basic function with an independent job description. As a rule, the position is 37 hours per week without the possibility of reduction of standard hours. The position is fixed-term for 12 months, with the possibility of extension.

About Gynecology/Obstetrics Department SUH, Roskilde

We are a specialty department with approximately 2,500 births annually. Our delivery unit has seven delivery rooms, an outpatient function for the maternity ward, inductions and admitted pregnant women, as well as a postnatal ward with 16 beds and the possibility for overnight partner. All departments are located close to each other.

We handle specialty functions in Region Zealand, which means we have varied obstetrics with many normal births, but also complex courses. We will move to new premises at Zealand University Hospital in Køge in January 2028.

We are a merged department with campuses in Nykøbing Falster and in Køge. There is a delivery department at the campuses in Nykøbing F. and Roskilde. The departments cooperate, but operate with independent department management under a shared departmental leadership. The positions are on the Roskilde campus and, from January 2028, at SUH Køge.

Salary and employment terms

Salary is composed according to a competence-based pay model, which makes salary negotiations and opportunities clearer for the individual and allows for noticeable allowances assessed on competence.

The position is aimed to be filled on 1 January 2027 or earlier. The application deadline is 22 November 2026, but we hold interviews ongoing, so please feel free to send your application today if the position sounds like the right fit for you.

Area of employment

The Region Zealand and the Region Capital will on 1 January 2027 become Region Østdanmark as a result of the health reform. Your employment area will be Region Østdanmark with all associated organizational units.

Read more about the meaning of the employment area on Region Østdanmark’s website.

Starting salary for employees under collective agreement

The region is obliged to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of base salary, centrally fixed allowances and pension under the relevant collective agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See the starting salary on the region’s website

About Zealand University Hospital

Zealand University Hospital is Denmark’s newest university hospital with activities in Køge, Roskilde and Nykøbing F. We are a bold and outward-looking university hospital where we every day work to create a coherent health system and greater health equality for citizens in the region.

Our catchment area is characterized by more citizens with chronic disease and social challenges than the national average. Therefore, we work purposefully with innovation, new forms of collaboration and solutions that bring treatment closer to the citizens.

With us you become part of an ambitious workplace where cross-sector collaboration, high professionalism and continuous improvements are a natural part of everyday life. Our leadership values are innovation, followership, integrity and community, and they set the direction for how we work, develop and achieve good results – for both citizens and employees.

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