Chief Nurse / Functional Manager for Local Psychiatry Aabenraa, Psychiatry Hospital of Southern Denmark

We are looking for a chief nurse/functional manager who thrives on creating direction and coherence in everyday work. You work purposefully to ensure balance between competencies, tasks and resources and have a sharp eye for structure, quality and safe operations.

You have strong collaboration skills and will help shape and further develop a team of engaged and competent staff, who prioritise interprofessional collaboration and a good working environment.

You will join in a committed management collaboration/partnership with the treating consultant. Together you have responsibility for coordinating and planning the efforts for the patients, taking into account patient safety, the work environment and quality, as well as ensuring that resources are used optimally and that applicable rules, regulations and instructions are followed.

In the position you will also be part of a close interprofessional collaboration with the treating physicians and the department's other staff. You report to the department management and are an active part of both the department's management team and a larger management group across all sites. You will among other things participate in a cluster collaboration with chief nurses from Local Psychiatry Haderslev, Ward 61 and Ward 55.

You have personnel responsibility in your area of responsibility, including staff development (MAPS), care and leadership conversations. You are responsible for planning attendance, time off and holidays within the given economic and collective agreement framework. In daily work it is important that collaboration with occupational health and union representatives is prioritized.

We expect you to be able to support, retain and develop professional efforts in a cross-disciplinary collaboration, create cohesion and set a clear framework for daily work. You have a strong focus on involving patients and relatives and are prepared to lead in a daily life characterized by many changes.

An introductory program and a mentor will be provided.

We expect that you

• Have a health professional education
• Have good collaboration and communication skills, and can ensure good communication in Local Psychiatry between individual staff, across wards and with partners
• Are results-oriented, can set clear and explicit goals and have experience with operations planning
• Meet your staff in an appreciative manner, and function as a sparring partner and advisor
• Have or are willing to take a leadership education

We offer among other things

• Good opportunities to influence and further develop Local Psychiatry with engaged and competent staff
• An working environment characterized by high professional standards and mutual respect
• Leadership supervision in the management team to support and strengthen you in your leadership role
• A close and supportive management community where we spar and lift together
• Good conditions for your own leadership development and professional qualification

Local Psychiatry Aabenraa consists of an interdisciplinary group, made up of doctors, psychologists, nurses, social and health care assistants as well as social workers/care coordinators. We work with assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of psychiatric disorders. Local Psychiatry is centrally located in Aabenraa at Opnørplads 1.

Psychiatry Hospital South Jutland consists of a common emergency department (psychiatric emergency room), which accepts patients around the clock. In addition there are 95 beds distributed over 5 general psychiatric wards and a geriatric psychiatric ward with a geriatric ambulatory. There is also a psychotherapeutic ward with outpatient clinic, oligophrenic team, OPUS and a clinic for suicide prevention. In Haderslev, Sønderborg, Tønder and Aabenraa lie the department's Local Psychiatries.

Further information

If you want to know more, you are welcome to contact Chief Nurse Lykke Bay Marcussen, [email protected] / 99445401.

Practical information

The application deadline is 10 November 2026

Job interviews are expected to be held on Monday 23 November 2026.

Salary and employment terms

The position is 37 hours and to be filled on 1 January or after agreement.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be told the base salary, centrally fixed allowances and pension for the health sector (32.17.1). In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

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