Quality Consultant with a focus on psychiatry, quality development and implementation – Sygehus Sønderjylland

The Quality Department at Southern Jutland Hospital is seeking a quality consultant who is passionate about quality development and implementation, with start date of January 1, 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Role

As a quality consultant you will have an important role in the hospital's work with quality development, with main emphasis within the psychiatry area. You will work closely with management, clinicians, and other partners, and you will have a coordinating and supportive role in translating professional decisions into practice.

You will be part of a team of four dedicated staff who work closely together on the clinical quality databases and quality development.

Your tasks will include

Administrative support for the regional forum: The Quality Group for personality disorders. The task consists of planning and coordinating meetings, agendas, follow-up and ensuring progress.

Support implementation of initiatives from the other regional quality groups for affective disorders, psychoses as well as ADHD and developmental disorders and the guidelines that come from the ”Danish Multidisciplinary Psychiatry Groups”, as well as translating professional recommendations into concrete workflows and actions in the organization.

Hospital liaison for the psychiatric clinical quality databases , where the task is to support the use of results for learning and quality development in collaboration with the database managers in Psychiatry and thereby support that the work with the clinical quality databases is aligned with the quality groups' local work.

Case handling , including preparation of case materials, briefs, presentations and other communications to management and relevant forums, as well as coordinating and collaborating across professional groups, departments, hospitals and regional collaboration interfaces.

In due course you will have other consulting tasks within the Quality Department's remit.

Experience and background

Your experience and background may be diverse, but we expect that you match several of the following:

• Experience with consultancy work and preferably with implementation and quality development
• Familiarity with health service task solving. Knowledge of psychiatry is an advantage
• Academic background, preferably a master's degree or equivalent
• Ability to create structure, overview and progress in processes with many stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate complex professional content into clear and usable communication
• Good collaboration skills – including the ability to work with different professional groups and management levels
• Ability to work independently and systematically while actively contributing to the team’s joint tasks.

We offer

We place emphasis on professional sparring, good cooperation and helping each other with both own and shared tasks.

In our department you will get

• A good working environment with freedom under responsibility and good collaborative relations
• A thorough introduction to your tasks
• Good opportunities for professional and personal development

Your primary workplace is in Aabenraa. There may also be workdays at the hospital's sites in Sønderborg and Tønder, and therefore owning a car is necessary.

About us

The Quality Department is a staff function at Southern Jutland Hospital. With 18 employees we support the hospital's management in ensuring and developing organizational, professional and patient-perceived quality.

We work in a team-based manner and handle overarching tasks in quality development, patient safety, quality databases, user involvement and voluntariness, hygiene and patient pathways at Southern Jutland Hospital. We emphasize the use of data and evidence in improvement activities.

With us you will become part of a dynamic and informal environment where cooperation, trust and credibility are foundational values. Collaboration and dialogue across professional groups, departments, and staff is a natural part of the work. There can sometimes be a lot going on and tight deadlines, so there can be periods with varying workloads.

Further information about Southern Jutland Hospital and the Quality Department can be obtained at www.sygehussonderjylland.dk or by contacting Quality and Improvement Manager Thomas Lund Sørensen at 29748791 or [email protected] or Quality Consultant Lena Oechsle Jørgensen at 29323521 or [email protected]

Application deadline 15-11-2026, interviews will be held on 17-11 and possibly a second interview round on 26-11.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position applied for. You will be told the base salary, centrally determined allowances and pension in the relevant collective agreement in the invitation to a possible interview.

Applications are submitted via the below ”apply for the position”. Please attach your application, CV and any other relevant documents. Southern Jutland Hospital always obtains references for the candidate offered the position.

Department: Quality

Job title: Consultant

Working hours: 37 hours

Workplace: Aabenraa

Application deadline: 15-11-2026

Application deadline: 15 November 2026