Quality and Development Nurses for the Adult Social Care Sector

Would you like to help set the direction for the health professional quality in the Adult Social Area? Are you interested in working with development, quality, patient safety and professional sparring – and at the same time be close to daily practice? Then it may be you we are seeking as Quality and Development Nurse for one of our two newly established positions in the Adult Social Area in Tønder Municipality.

About the position

As a Quality and Development Nurse you will have a central role in supporting and developing the health professional services in the Adult Social Area. You will become an important sparring partner for management and staff and you must help ensure that our health professional practice is professionally grounded, compliant with the law and translated into a meaningful everyday life for citizens. You will work across offers and professional disciplines and have a broad contact surface including, among other things, offer managers, area management, staff and external partners.

Your key tasks will include

• ensure good and cohesive transitions between internal and external sectors
• support planning and coordination of health professional tasks together with offer and area management
• promote interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration
• keep management informed about changes in health legislation and other relevant requirements
• contribute with health professional assessments and opinions in relevant cases
• support nursing assessment and the preparation of health professional instruction manuals
• ensure compliance with applicable laws, instructions and professional guidelines
• qualify and revise health professional instructions
• support learning, training and professional development among staff
• teach and guide staff in health professional areas
• work systematically with patient safety, UTH, risk assessments and incident analyses
• be a sparring partner for management and staff regarding health professional issues
• coordinate vaccinations for citizens in residential care
• support implementation of new workflows and professional initiatives
• contribute to health professional audits and development of annual cycles
• assist the organization in connection with inspections from the Danish Patient Safety Authority
• participate in relevant networks and super-user meetings
• support the collaboration between the Adult Social Area and relevant health professional partners.

We are looking for someone who

• is educated as a nurse
• has relevant experience from the health professional field – preferably with experience from the specialized social area
• has an interest in quality, development and patient safety
• has knowledge of relevant legislation and preferably work in the adult social area
• has experience with or an interest in documentation and health professional IT systems, preferably Nexus and VAR
• can translate legislation, guidelines and professional knowledge into practice
• works in a structured way and can maintain overview in a complex organization
• communicates clearly and can create followership around professional development
• enjoys collaborating across professions and organizational levels
• has good collaboration and communication skills
• wants to continually develop both themselves and health professional practice.

We offer

A challenging and independent role where you will have the opportunity to make a concrete difference for quality and patient safety for citizens in the Adult Social Area.

You will receive

• a central role in health professional development
• great opportunity to shape the function and develop workflows
• a close collaboration with leaders and staff across the area
• opportunity to work strategically, coordinating and practice-oriented
• a workplace with focus on professional development, learning and quality
• a daily life with many different and professionally interesting tasks
• opportunity to actively apply your health professional competencies in a cross-disciplinary environment.

You will become part of the Adult Social Area, where we work to create good and cohesive offers for adult citizens with different support needs.

We believe that high quality is created in the interaction between professionalism, relationships, systematic work and development. Therefore, we need a Quality and Development Nurse who can both see the big picture and also understand the reality that staff face every day.

You must be able to move between legislation, professional standards, managerial decisions and concrete practice, and help ensure everything hangs together.

Would you like to be part of it?

If you are passionate about health professional quality, patient safety and development, and if you are motivated to make a difference across an entire social area, we look forward to hearing from you.

Terms of employment

The positions are 37 hours per week with start on 1 December 2026 or possibly 1 January 2027. Flexible positions with fewer hours may be possible.

Do you have questions about the position?

You are welcome to contact area manager Patrick Hougaard at telephone 20 20 59 14 or area manager Lotte Tegnskov at tel. 20 13 54 04.

Placement in the salary frame depends on experience, competence and relevant education, and please note that we request a criminal record check before you are employed.

You apply for the position by sending application, CV and other documentation electronically via the application link. You will receive an acknowledgment of the application, but note that the acknowledgment and any invitation to interview may end up in your spam filter.