Senior Bioanalyst for the Clinical Biochemistry Department, Zealand University Hospital, Køge.

We are looking for you if you want to be part of our integrated management team at Zealand University Hospital, Clinical Biochemical Department, Nykøbing F, Roskilde and Køge.

Zealand University Hospital operates as a unified organizational unit under a single hospital administration.

The hospital covers the hospitals in Roskilde, Køge and Nykøbing Falster and will be part of the upcoming East Zealand and Islands Health Board when the region on 1.1.2027 becomes part of Region East Denmark.

The Clinical Biochemical Department has sections on the hospital's three sites.

We are seeking an engaged, development-ready personnel and operations leader for the Køge section, where you will fill the 4th position in the group of senior bioanalysts.

Management at Zealand University Hospital generally is based on four central leadership values:

We emphasize followership , where involvement and a common direction are central. Innovation is part of our approach – we continuously develop and translate knowledge into practice. Integrity means for us to meet each other with respect, take responsibility and build trustful relationships. We see community as a prerequisite for good results – we work together and across boundaries. This is the starting point for leadership at Zealand University Hospital (SUH).

In the Clinical Biochemical Department, this means that you act professionally and empathetically towards all working relationships. That you know your responsibility as a leader to be a role model for the staff in terms of communication, emotional regulation, overview and necessary prioritization,

You should have an interest, willingness and courage for professional and organizational development of the specialty and collaboration with patients and relatives and to ensure diagnostic support for the hospital's tasks in general.

You must be able to create trust and engagement among those around you so that everyone can safely contribute to the department's tasks being solved in a way that both the physical and the psychological work environment are good.

The daily operations in the department's three sections are managed by senior bioanalysts at each section.

The department leadership and management team work together on planning task distribution, resource allocation, competency development and training, general personnel matters, servicing of clinical departments and general practice, transformation of the department as part of the health reform, ensuring robust task execution within the different areas of the three sections. This is promoted by participation in joint course activities and through regular staff leadership meetings in Køge.

Quality management of the work is a significant part of the department's core delivery and the professional content of the Clinical Biochemistry service to the hospital and its quality assurance is led in collaboration between the department leadership, quality manager, specialists, clinical academics and professional specialists.

The professional leadership and ongoing quality management are organized in a quality steering group and in area-specific group leadership within pre-analytic, sampling, outpatient operations, hematology, biochemistry, coagulation, special analyses, molecular biology, and other special analyses.

The leadership team focuses on reflection and development in their leadership style, among other things through ongoing targeted joint leadership development.

You will help ensure that the entire staff contributes to our daily success with the department's core tasks; to support patients' diagnostics, monitoring and treatment by ensuring the right answer of the right quality at the right time.

We expect that you

• Have leadership/organizational experience or insight from work or leisure and are passionate about leadership and change processes
• Like dealing with whole people, as shown through your sympathetic and empathetic abilities and recognition of individual contributions
• Have a strong interest in developing personnel leadership with a focus on a good working environment
• Are able to ensure good dialogues and constructive collaboration
• Can make difficult decisions and live with dilemmas
• Can prioritize, structure, plan, discuss, decide and follow up on problems
• Your basic education may be complemented by a diploma in leadership or other leadership continuing education, or you must be willing to take relevant further education
• Are good at delegating competencies and responsibilities to others
• Have interest and experience with quality work
• Are interested in the overall organization
• Can communicate and convey in an instructional way
• Are responsible, flexible and change-ready

We offer, among other things, the following tasks

• Take responsibility for daily operational leadership in collaboration with the rest of the leadership team, focusing on getting the task done. There will primarily be presence at one site in the respective position
• Personnel responsibility as immediate supervisor for a group of the department's staff including employee conversations and MUS discussions
• Function as a coordinator, facilitator and spokesperson in various tasks inside and outside the department, including readiness work for upcoming hospital changes
• Develop the bioanalyst profession inside and outside the hospital and support the department's and hospital's overall development
• Actively contribute to quality and accreditation work in the entire department
• Involve, engage and motivate bioanalysts and other professional groups in the department
• Ensure competence development for the staff
• Ensure that work processes and work planning are continuously optimized
• Ensure optimal service to patients and referrers with a focus on patient involvement
• Promote constructive dialogue and close cooperation with internal and external partners
• Ensure the framework for a good and developing work environment throughout the department together with TRIO
• Ensure a strong, productive collaboration with TRIO
• Create an attractive workplace together with TRIO
• Work data-driven as the basis for development dialogue

Experience from the specialty of Clinical Biochemistry is not a requirement. We will ensure you are equipped professionally to solve the task.

We look forward to reading your application with a description of your motivation to become part of our team.

Employment terms

We expect to hire from 1 December 2026.

The position is 37 hours per week without night shifts and compensation is according to the agreement for leading personnel in the Health Sector.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be told the base salary, centrally determined allowances and pension in the relevant agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the salary may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See the starting salary on the region's website : Starting salary for positions in Region Zealand - Region Zealand - We are here for you

If you require further information, you are very welcome to contact Chief Bioanalyst Helle Kune Frederikson at tel.: 47 32 56 44 or [email protected]

Application deadline

25 October 2026

Invitations to interviews will be sent out continuously and interviews will be held on 27.10.2026 and 29.10.2026.

References desired to be brought to the interview.

Department information

The laboratories service the hospital and the practice sector, and the department participates in patient pathways by performing blood sampling at the hospital, in the outpatient clinic, at the psychiatric hospital, and by visiting patients at home. In addition, routine and special analysis work are performed in the laboratory and advisory services outside the hospital, development work, research and education. Among the largest routine analyses can be mentioned: Hematology, Biochemistry, Coagulation and POCT.

Among special analyses are Flow Cytometry, Allergy Analyses, Molecular Biology, M-component analyses and Calprotectin, and there is active involvement in education, research and development in the department.

Employment area

Region Zealand and Region Capital will become Region East Denmark on 1 January 2027 as part of the health reform. Your employment area will be Region East Denmark with all associated organizational units.

Read more about the meaning of the employment area on the Region East Denmark website.

Starting salary for unionized employees

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be told the base salary, centrally determined allowances and pension in the relevant agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the salary may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See the starting salary on the region's website

About Zealand University Hospital

Zealand University Hospital is Denmark’s newest university hospital with activities in Køge, Roskilde and Nykøbing F. We are a bold and outward-looking university hospital where we every day work to create a cohesive health system and greater health equality for citizens in the region.

Our catchment area is characterized by more citizens with chronic illness and social challenges than the national average. Therefore we work specifically with innovation, new forms of collaboration and solutions that bring treatment closer to citizens.

With us you become part of an ambitious workplace where cross-border collaboration, high professionalism, and ongoing improvements are a natural part of everyday life. Our leadership values are innovation, followership, integrity and community, and they set the direction for how we work, develop and create good results – for both citizens and employees.

Read more about Zealand University Hospital, Nykøbing F. here

Read more about Zealand University Hospital, Køge and Roskilde here

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If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact

Name

Helle Kune Frederikson

Email

[email protected]

Position

Chief Bioanalyst

WORKPLACE

Zealand University Hospital, Køge

QUICKNR.

055760

JOBTYPE

Full time

POSTED

5 October 2026

APPLICATION DEADLINE

25 October 2026

START DATE

1 December 2026