Social and Health Care Assistant for an open psychiatric ward in Hillerød, North Zealand Psychiatric Center

Do you have a desire to be connected to a ward with high professional standards, good collegiality, staff who are passionate about the patients, and who highly value humor? Then Ward 2221 has a vacant social and health care assistant position in mixed shifts.

Treatment and care are planned based on a holistic approach. Work is carried out using cognitive behavioral therapy and in a milieu-therapeutic framework with fixed structured activities/groups. Psychiatric Center North Zealand is focused on supporting the patient’s personal recovery process, where the individual patient’s resources and personal goals are brought into play. The approach is also supplemented by the introduction of Safewards throughout the center.

In the ward you will be part of a multidisciplinary treatment team, consisting of doctors, nurses, social- and health care assistants, a psychologist, a physiotherapist, a social worker and a recovery mentor.

We place emphasis on you wanting to develop and acquire both theoretical and practical competencies within psychiatric nursing. In the introductory period you will be required to participate in mandatory courses that strengthen your overall competencies at the start.

During the first year of employment you will also be assigned a mentor among the staff, who will follow you as part of the introduction to the ward. You will also be offered the course “Getting Started in Psychiatry” for social- and health care assistants.

Who are we?

Open 24-hour ward 2221 in Hillerød is a stable ward with staff with great psychiatric experience, high professional level and good colleagues. It is also characterized by openness and opportunities for professional sparring. The ward has 13 beds and 3 beds for patient-driven admissions. We receive patients from 18 years up to 70 years with psychiatric disorders and somatic challenges for assessment and treatment. The 3 beds for patient-driven admissions are an arrangement where 80 selected patients can admit themselves for up to 5 days, at their own request.

We collaborate purposefully with relatives, municipal authorities, general practitioners and other inpatient wards. In addition, we collaborate with OPUS, F-ACT, and psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic.

We offer multidisciplinary cognitive supervision once a week for 1 hour. The ward annually holds 1 development day. In addition to mandatory courses there is a focus on continuous skills development.

Your tasks

Your tasks include among other things

• Relational work, care and treatment of patients
• Milieu-therapeutic conversations and support for structure and mastery of daily life
• Medication management, observation of effects and side effects, and documentation
• Preparation of crisis plans and coordination of patient pathways
• Interdisciplinary collaboration on treatment, rehabilitation and discharge
• Prevention of self-harm and suicide and use of de-escalation methods
• Training supervisor for SSA students

Your competencies and experience

We expect that you hold Danish authorization as a social- and health care assistant and are interested in the specialty.

Psychiatric experience is an advantage, but not a requirement. We assess applicants based on their overall competencies and motivation.

We would love to hear from you if you, like us, value creating value for the patient during the admission.

Salary and terms

We expect you to start on February 1, 2027 or by agreement.

You are employed according to the collective agreement for social- and health personnel. You are during employment covered by the current working time agreement entered into between the Regional Salary and Tariff Board and FOA.

The 24-hour ward is staffed around the clock, and you will therefore be scheduled with mixed shifts in accordance with the rules of the applicable working time agreement in the collective agreement.

There will be weekend work every 2nd or 3rd week at your own request.

Would you like to know more?

If you need further information about the position, you can contact Chief Nurse Kim Johansson at tel. 38 64 32 31 or at tel. 28 89 40 96 and email: [email protected] .

Apply for the position

Send your application, CV and certificate via the link on the page no later than November 22, 2026.

Interviews will be held on December 1 and 2, 2026.

Read and hear more about Region Hovedstaden’s Psychiatry as a workplace at "Job in Psychiatry" .