Quality and Development Nurse for the Rehabilitation Center

Quality and Development Nurse for the 24/7 and Rehabilitation Center Hegnsgården

Do you want to set the direction for nursing quality and translate professional knowledge into safe and rehabilitative practice?

We are looking for an experienced and development-oriented nurse for a non-shift role of 32–37 hours per week at the 24/7 and Rehabilitation Center Hegnsgården in Rudersdal Municipality.

You will play a central role in driving quality and improvement work, strengthening patient safety, and developing employees' professional competencies. Based on the clinical everyday life, you will create improvements that contribute to safe and coherent citizen pathways.

About us

Hegnsgården is a 24/7 facility under development. We work on developing the temporary spaces so they can meet future demands for health services.

Citizens often have complex health-related needs, requiring strong clinical competencies and close coordination across professions and sectors. Nursing and therapeutic interventions must work together to support citizens' functional ability, independence, and goals.

Your tasks

You will drive nursing professional quality development and ensure that professional standards are translated into workflows that work in practice.

Your primary tasks are to

• Develop and implement professional standards: Prepare, revise, and follow up on nursing instructions, guidelines, and workflows.
• Strengthen patient safety: Follow up on adverse events (AEs) with a focus on learning and prevention, including collaboration with the pharmacologist on medication-related issues.
• Drive systematic quality and improvement work: Plan and conduct clinical audits according to the center's annual cycle and follow up on results. Apply relevant methods, including the improvement model, to identify challenges, test solutions, and sustain improvements.
• Develop employees' competencies: Organize education, guidance, and professional sparring based on employees' daily work and clinical practice.
• Support quality in complex citizen pathways: Collaborate with staff on health-related issues, clinical assessments, and documentation.
• Develop multidisciplinary rehabilitation: Cooperate with the development therapist on joint workflows and a rehabilitative practice, and contribute to coordinated efforts and ensure transitions across sectors.

It is essential that you can create engagement and follow-through and bring improvements into daily practice.

Organizational placement and collaboration

You report directly to the center director and have an independent role with close leadership sparring.

Your closest collaborator in development work is the center's development therapist. Together you drive professional development across disciplines with respect for each profession's contributions. You also work closely with ward managers, the pharmacologist, and other staff to prioritize development needs and implement improvements.

We are looking for someone who

• Is a licensed nurse with solid clinical experience.
• Has experience with or strong competencies in quality development, patient safety, and systematic improvement work.
• Can translate professional knowledge into practice and work structured with implementation and follow-up.
• Has good communication and guidance skills and can make professional learning relevant and applicable for staff.
• Can create engagement, following, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Understands rehabilitation and the interplay between nursing and therapeutic interventions.
• Works independently, takes initiative, and follows through on tasks.
• Has good IT skills and understanding of health-related documentation.

It is advantageous if you have a higher health science education or further training in areas such as practice development, quality development, project management, or supervision.

We offer

• A central role with influence on the center's nursing quality and professional development.
• Opportunity to drive development tasks from idea to testing, implementation, and follow-up.
• Close collaboration with management and engaged colleagues across disciplines.
• A non-shift role of 32–37 hours per week.
• Salary and employment terms in accordance with the applicable collective agreement.

In Rudersdal Municipality, we believe that success comes through collaboration. We work to create sustainable solutions that make a difference for citizens and support a professionally strong and coherent effort.

Terms of employment and transition to Region Østdanmark

The position is part of the planned transfer to Region Østdanmark as part of the health reform on 1 January 2027. Employment is therefore conditional on the region's consent under the Transition Act § 158, subsection 4.

By applying for the position, you agree that your application information, including CV and other relevant documents, may be forwarded to the region as part of the hiring process.

If the region's consent is not obtained, the employment cannot be completed.

Application and interviews

Application deadline: 23 October 2026.

We expect to conduct recruitment interviews from week 44.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact center manager Charlotte Kolvig-Raun Kirkegaard at [email protected] or telephone 72 68 51 26.

We look forward to receiving your application.