Public Health Nurse for Sandholm Reception Center in Allerød (part-time)

Are you a nurse who is passionate about making a difference for people in difficult life situations and want to work in the world's largest humanitarian organization, where humanity is the core value? Do you want to have a different nursing job during daytime hours at a workplace driven by engagement, professionalism and solidarity, and where you meet many nationalities and have varying tasks? Then you should read on.

The Danish Red Cross asylum department is seeking a nurse for the health clinic at Center Sandholm, located near Allerød.

Sandholm is a reception center for all new asylum seekers arriving in Denmark.

Read more about Reception Center Sandholm here .

About the work at our health clinics

As a nurse you will become part of a strong multidisciplinary team consisting of other nurses, public health nurses as well as associated psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors. In addition, the health staff consults and collaborates with the asylum department's responsible physician, who monitors the overall health service activities in the asylum department. The framework for health services to asylum seekers is the Danish Red Cross asylum department's contract with the Danish Immigration Service.

We work based on the principle of inclusion and strive to ensure that each asylum seeker has access to health services as well as health promotion and disease prevention, which supports the individual in taking care of their own health.

Our work is continuously developing with a view to quality assurance of the treatment offered to the center's residents and patient safety through planning and implementing quality-improving initiatives. This includes a continuous focus on improving and implementing health-related instructions and procedures, and strengthening expertise and the professional approach in our treatment offerings.

Your tasks

Overall, you will help ensure that the health function's tasks are performed in accordance with good professional practice and with the duties otherwise laid down in the legislation for health professional activities. Your primary task will be medical intake interviews and the preparation of health and vulnerability checks for newly arrived adult asylum seekers. The purpose of the interview is to clarify physical health, including contagious diseases, particularly HIV, hepatitis and TB.

In addition, the interview includes assessment of mental health including consequences of torture. Further clarifications may include missing medications and serious treatable illnesses.

In addition, the following tasks will be included in your portfolio, albeit to varying degrees:

• Independent nursing consultations in open clinic and planned conversations
• Triage for treatment
• Follow-up of cases
• Coordination of the health-related work around the individual resident, including collaboration with internal and external partners
• Administrative tasks for guarantee applications to the Danish Immigration Service for health treatment at hospitals, etc.
• Maintenance of contact nursing tasks in relation to residents with special needs
• Communication of knowledge to residents about the link between living conditions, lifestyle, health and disease
• Clinical nursing tasks – including for example medication management, wound care, sampling, and delegated examinations (e.g. urine test strips, strep-A).
• Participation in internal emergency preparedness

A bit about you

It is a requirement that you hold Danish authorization as a nurse. You preferably have a good understanding of or are willing to learn about the complex health landscape characterizing the target group, including occurrences of physical and mental illness, trends and health-related challenges resulting from, for example, cultural influence, the strains of flight and other factors.

In addition, we place the following emphasis on the following

• Proven versatile experience as a nurse - preferably from a field with a target group characterized by a high degree of cultural diversity
• Good overview and ability to navigate a daily life with varied tasks
• You thrive on combining structure and systematics in task execution with the ability to adapt and act on new needs
• Take responsibility and follow up on tasks to completion
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration
• Fluent in Danish, both spoken and written for documentation requirements and other internal and external written work
• Good English, knowledge of several languages will be an advantage
• Good digital skills and preferably experience with electronic health records

We offer

• Exciting work in a politically governed organization with a humanitarian value base
• Good opportunities for professional and personal development through courses, continuing education and three to four annual theme and conference days with staff from the other health clinics in the asylum department
• A strong community with competent and dedicated colleagues, both within the health-related field and across disciplines
• Mandatory supervision
• Work on weekdays during daytime hours

Salary and terms of employment

You are employed in accordance with a collective agreement with DSR (the State).

Working hours: 35-37 hours per week in the period 7.00-18.00

Start date: As soon as possible after further agreement, no later than 1 December 2026

Workplace: Sandholmgårdsvej 40, 3460 Birkerød

Driver's license: An advantage

Certificates: Please note that a police certificate for children will be obtained upon employment, and you must present a private criminal record certificate.

Further information: Available by contacting the Health Manager Michelle Wittchen at [email protected] and telephone 4020 0571 (from week 43)

Application deadline: 23 October 2026

Employment interviews: Expected to take place in week 44

The position can only be applied for via our online recruitment system by clicking the link “Søg jobbet” (Apply for the job). If you experience technical challenges contact [email protected]

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