Sous-chef for Elderly and Health

Can you create direction, bring people together around common solutions and translate strategy into practice?

Billund Municipality is in the midst of a major transformation. The health reform and the elderly reform are changing the framework for our tasks, collaborations and the way we deliver welfare. At the same time, we must handle increasing quality demands, more elderly citizens and a strained labor market.

It creates an exciting leadership space with the opportunity to set the direction and make a real difference for the citizens.

Billund Municipality is therefore seeking a deputy head who, together with the Chief of Elderly and Health, will lead the continued development of the Elderly and Health area.

As deputy head you will play a central role in ensuring that political ambitions, reforms and professional goals are translated into concrete solutions that create value for citizens, relatives and employees.

You will become a central strategic key person, a close sparring partner for the Chief of Elderly and Health and will act as deputy in relevant contexts.

A central role in the development of Elderly and Health

As deputy head you will have broad strategic and organizational responsibility.

You shall contribute to creating coherence between operations, quality, development and cross-cutting collaborations, while supporting managers to succeed with the core task close to the citizens.

You will become an active player in the development of health professional quality across the Adult area and will have an important role in cross-disciplinary cooperation with disciplines, authorities and sectors. At the same time you will be responsible for supporting the implementation of national reforms, new quality requirements and our own organizational development initiatives.

You will, among other things, lead the implementation of the upcoming national dementia action plan and together with the head of the dementia area contribute to developing the dementia area so that high professional quality and coherent pathways for people with dementia and their relatives are ensured.

You will be part of the Elderly and Health area

You will be based at the town hall in Grindsted, where the Chief of Elderly and Health, the Chief of Disability and Psychiatry, and the Adult and Health Department have their daily base, but you will also be visible with our leaders both in the Elderly and Health area and in the Disability and Psychiatry area.

You will become part of the leadership team in the Elderly and Health area with 12 operations managers, and you will have close cooperation with leaders, specialists and staff functions across the entire Adult area. We work based on a fundamental ambition to create quality, coherence and value for citizens through strong collaboration, high professionalism and shared responsibility – and we also have fun when we go to work.

A job at the crossroads of quality, operations and development

As deputy head you must ensure that new demands, decisions and development initiatives are translated into practice in the organization. You will have a special responsibility to strengthen the health professional quality across the area in close cooperation with our leaders, our development nurse and nurse professional consultant.

An important part of the role will also be to strengthen cooperation with hospitals, general practice and other partners so that citizens experience coherent and safe pathways. With the Health Reform and Billund Municipality's cross-sector collaboration across two Health Councils it will be crucial to create strong relationships and joint solutions across sectors and geography.

In addition you must support our leaders in complex citizen pathways and relative cooperation when situations require it.

Your main areas of responsibility will be

• drive implementation of reforms, development initiatives and strategic initiatives across the Elderly and Health area.
• support high health professional quality and common direction in the organization.
• contribute to the development of competences, learning paths and professional standards across employee groups.
• coordinate cross-sectoral collaboration with hospitals, general practice and other partners.
• support leaders in complex organizational and citizen-related issues.
• prepare analyses, presentations, notes and basis for decisions.
• act as deputy for the Chief of Elderly and Health.

What will be your first tasks?

In the first period you will among other things have responsibility to

• support the implementation of central elements of the Health Reform and the Elderly Reform.
• ensure direction and coherence in the health professional area with focus on quality and patient safety.
• develop and implement a strategy for dealing with adverse events and organizational learning.
• implement a new procedure and competence system and support anchoring in the organization.
• contribute to the continued development of the leadership team together with the Chief of Elderly and Health.
• strengthen work with citizen and relative cooperation.

After the first year we expect that you have contributed to significant progress in the implementation of the reforms, strengthened the health professional quality and supported closer collaboration across the organization and with external partners.

You create results through collaboration and professionalism

To be the right fit for the task, we imagine that you

• are a trained nurse and have a relevant further education in management, project management, process management or health professional development.
• have experience from the health or elderly area, preferably from a politically governed organization.
• have leadership experience or experience from a role with considerable responsibility for coordination, development and implementation.
• have documented experience in translating strategies and decisions into concrete results.
• thrive in complex collaborative relationships and can generate followers through professionalism, dialogue and clear direction.
• communicate confidently, both verbally and in writing.

As a person we hope you are proactive, structured and relationship-driven. You can think strategically and act pragmatically when solutions must be translated into reality.

Billund Municipality is a small municipality where both managers organize meetings, write minutes and follow tasks through to the end themselves. Therefore we also imagine that you love the “sandwich work” that often brings tasks to completion.

That is why you should choose us

We offer an exciting and influential leadership position in an ambitious municipality where you have the opportunity to shape the development of an area in great change. You will become part of an organization characterized by high professionalism, great commitment and a strong focus on collaboration.

We work based on the vision of the Children's Capital City and the principles of Playful Working, where curiosity, participation, meaning and community are a natural part of the way we work.

So if you can see yourself in an organization where we succeed through collective effort, make an effort, have a solution-minded approach and use Playful Working as a strength in everyday life, we look forward to receiving your application.

Practical information

Start date January 1, 2027

You are very welcome to contact Bethina Lundberg Danielsen, Chief of Elderly and Health, on tel. +45 23 20 44 37 or by email [email protected] if you want to know more.

There are two interview rounds, first interview November 20 and second interview November 25. In the second interview you will be asked to solve a task. If you are selected for the second interview, you will be given a personality profile. In addition we will obtain a reference from your current workplace.

Application deadline November 17, 2026 – we will select candidates November 18.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Application deadline: Nov 17, 2026

Department: Jorden Rundt 1 7200 Grindsted