PSYCHIATRY - Psychiatric Clinic Djursland seeks psychologist for a new interdisciplinary residential care team

Psykiatrisk Klinik Djursland søker psykolog til nyt tværfagligt Botilbudsteam – vær med til at forme fremtidens psykiatriske behandling til selvskadende patienter.

Would you like to help develop a new outpatient initiative for citizens in residential care with severe mental illness, including severe self-harming behavior?

Regions Hospital Randers – Psychiatry has established a new outpatient Residential Care Team – an outreach, interdisciplinary and FACT-inspired treatment offer aimed at adults with severe mental illness, substantially reduced functioning and complex psychiatric, social, and health-related challenges. In the startup phase, the primary patient focus will be on patients with severe self-harm, also in their own homes.

The Residential Care Team is organizationally anchored in the Psychiatric Clinic Djursland in Rønde and works across the entire catchment area. The team provides outpatient treatment to patients in Randers, Favrskov, Norddjurs and Syddjurs Municipalities. A large part of the work takes place with citizens, in residential care facilities, or in close collaboration with municipal and regional partners.

Because the work involves driving within the catchment area, a driver’s license is a requirement for employment.

About the Residential Care Team

The work is based on the Danish Health Authority’s “Clinical framework for outbound residential care teams in regional psychiatry.”

https://www.sst.dk/udgivelser/2024/faglige-rammer-for-udgaaende-botilbudsteams-i-den-regionale-psykiatri

The purpose of the Residential Care Team is to create more stable and coherent treatment pathways for citizens with complex psychiatric problems.

Your tasks

As a psychologist you will be the team’s psychological professional resource. You will contribute with psychological expertise, support the shared professional development, and ensure coherence in complex patient pathways.

Your duties include, among other things

• contribute to psychiatric assessment and evaluation of complex patient pathways
• conduct assessments of psychological, relational, cognitive, affective and behavioral problems
• contribute to understanding self-harm, crisis behavior, stress reactions, trauma, attachment patterns and coping strategies
• prepare psychologically informed contributions to treatment plans, crisis plans, safety plans and collaboration plans
• manage supportive, stabilizing and therapeutic conversations, based on individual assessment
• support the implementation of the regional self-harm guideline in collaboration with the team’s other professionals
• refine work with chain analysis, triggers, coping, affect regulation and preventive agreements
• provide supervision, professional sparring and reflection to the team’s staff and to residential care staff in concrete cases
• contribute to a shared professional understanding of the citizen’s difficulties and needs across sectors
• support a recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approach in the team’s work
• participate in multidisciplinary conferences, network meetings and treatment planning
• contribute to methodological development, competence development and quality assurance in the team
• document relevant assessments, treatment plans and agreements in the electronic patient journal (EPJ).
• Teaching tasks. Supervision in basic training in self-harm.

We are looking for someone who

is a licensed psychologist and has experience from psychiatry, as the position requires a certain level of experience and is not for newly graduated candidates.

Some of the qualities we value are that you

• are comfortable with complex psychiatric patient pathways including self-harm
• have competencies in psychiatric assessment, diagnostic evaluation, treatment and supervision
• are motivated by development and want to help build a new treatment offering
• have good collaboration and communication skills
• work in a structured way and focus on quality, implementation and development.

We offer

• a challenging and developing position in a newly established interdisciplinary team
• a high degree of independence
• the opportunity to shape workflows, culture and professional development
• close interdisciplinary collaboration with dedicated colleagues
• competence development
• a meaningful job where you help create better and more coherent patient pathways.

Salary and employment terms

The position is, as a rule, a full-time role with employment in accordance with the applicable collective agreement.

Working hours are on weekdays between 08:00 and 16:00.

The Residential Care Team is organizationally anchored in the Psychiatric Clinic Djursland in Rønde.

The work is outreach, so you should expect travel to citizens and partners throughout the catchment area, which includes Randers, Favrskov, Norddjurs and Syddjurs Municipalities.

Your primary workplace is in Rønde, but you will have weekly workdays where you are required to report to Randers.

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

Do you have questions?

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Chief Physician Søren Mikkelsen at telephone 2369 9082 or Chief Nurse Nana Steensgaard at telephone 2313 0364.

The application deadline is Wednesday, 11 November 2026.

We expect to conduct hiring interviews in week 47, on Monday 16/11 from 15:30 in 2026,

We look forward to hearing from you.

As Region Midtjylland continually implements austerity measures and reorganizations, employees who are displaced and apply for the position will have priority.

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