Specialist in Surgery with a view to specialty certification

Surgical Department, North Zealand Hospital

Would you like to develop as a surgeon and work purposefully towards specialty certification in colorectal surgery or acute surgery?

The Surgical Department at North Zealand Hospital is seeking an engaged specialist in surgery. With us you get high surgical activity, a strong professional community and an individual development plan aimed at UEMS certification. We are looking for a colleague who also will actively contribute to the department's clinical operations, quality, research and organizational development and who meets patients, relatives and colleagues with care and consideration.

We offer targeted professional development

You will become part of a structured process where your subspecialty interest is clarified within the first 1-2 years. Thereafter a targeted training program is planned towards certification in either colorectal surgery or acute surgery.

The department supports the process through a mentorship scheme and focused placements. If necessary competences cannot be obtained locally, national or international training programs may be included.

You will have the opportunity to develop yourself as a surgeon, researcher and quality developer and to take responsibility for coherent patient pathways in a department with high professional ambitions, where highly specialized treatment goes hand in hand with care and attention for the individual patient.

Your tasks and responsibilities

You will perform clinical work, participate in on-call duties and contribute to the development of the department's treatment offerings. We expect you to take responsibility for both the individual patient, the professional community and the department's overall tasks. In meetings with patients and relatives you are expected to combine professional decisiveness with care and consideration.

Research and development

You have documented academic experience and contribute to research and development activities, for example through research projects, publications, supervision, quality development or implementation of new evidence. You can translate scientific knowledge into improvements in patient treatment and help strengthen the department's academic profile.

Quality and patient safety

You have experience with quality monitoring and quality development, including clinical quality data, audits and improvement work. You contribute to systematic follow-up on results and to a culture where data is used actively for learning and improvement of the professional and patient-perceived quality as well as patient safety. The improvement work must support patient care characterized by high professional quality, patient safety and care and consideration.

Operations and patient pathways

You understand the connection between clinical activity, capacity utilization, productivity, patient flow and resource use. You have interest in and preferably experience with planning, prioritization and optimization of clinical pathways and contribute constructively to the department's operations and goal attainment. You also balance the need for efficient operations with care and consideration for the individual patient's needs and overall treatment course.

We expect that you

• are a specialist in surgery and have ambitions for certification in colorectal surgery or acute surgery
• are proactive, collaborative and development-oriented
• work with high professional integrity and show care and consideration for patients, relatives and colleagues
• communicate professionally and empathetically and collaborate across professions
• are a role model for the department's values and contribute to a work environment characterized by respect, cooperation and responsibility.

About the Surgical Department

The department is organized in medical teams within acute surgery, abdominal wall surgery, HPB/upper gastrointestinal evaluation, colorectal surgery, endoscopy and medical gastroenterology. We treat a wide range of patients with a particular focus on acute surgical pathways, biliary tract diseases, hernias, colorectal cancer as well as inflammatory and functional bowel diseases.

We work systematically with research, education and development of professional, organizational and patient-perceived quality. Our goal is coherent patient pathways with high professional standard, short waiting times, high patient safety and active involvement of patients and relatives. Caring and consideration are fundamental principles for both our patient treatment and our internal collaboration.

The Surgical Department covers the Health Council in North Zealand and is located in Hillerød and Frederikssund. We are about 250 employees distributed across inpatient wards, outpatient clinics, ostomy clinic and endoscopy unit. Within a few years the activities will be consolidated at the New North Zealand Hospital in modern facilities for patient care, research and education.

On-call arrangements: You join the back-up on-call team together with experienced main training doctors in a roughly 7-shift, two-part on-call. The surgical on-call team consists of a night on-call, middle on-call, back on-call in-house and on-call senior on-call when called. In addition there is daily specialist physician coverage with acute surgery focus 08:00-18:00 on weekdays.

Salary and employment terms

Employment is as a specialist under the agreement between Danish Regions and Young Doctors.

Position type: Specialist

Application deadline: 30 October 2026

Interviews 20 November 2026

Employment start: 1 February 2027 or by agreement

Starting salary and pension percentage: refer to link on this

Application

Your application must include

• motivation for the position and a plan for achieving UEMS certification in colorectal surgery or acute surgery
• documentation of specialist authorization
• CV including operative lists
• documentation of academic activity
• documentation of qualifications in the seven medical roles.

Contact us

For further information about the position you are welcome to contact

Chief Physician Peter Svenningsen, tel. 48 29 52 04

Email: [email protected]

We look forward to hearing how you wish to develop your surgical career with us at North Zealand Hospital and contribute to a department where professionalism, care and consideration go hand in hand.