Specialist doctor sought for the intensive 24-hour ward B204 for young people in Glostrup

Address: Nordstjernevej 21, 2600 Glostrup

We are seeking an engaged specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry who is passionate about assessment and treatment of young people with complex psychiatric difficulties. We provide highly specialized functions in psychosis, complicated neuropsychiatry, and forensic psychiatry during hospitalization.

We are looking for you to help make a difference for some of the most ill young people in the country within an intensive framework. Our approach is driven by professional curiosity, empathy and multidisciplinary collaboration.

About the ward

B204 is a closed 24-hour unit for youths aged 14 to 17 years.

Our average length of stay is around 40 days, reflecting a wide variation in duration and need for treatment within our specialized intensive framework. Our treatment approach is multidisciplinary, bio-psycho-social, which is reflected in how we have organized ourselves in the department.

We have a broad, multidisciplinary staff group, consisting of doctors, psychologist, social worker, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, nurses, social and health assistants and pedagogues.

We focus on involving parents, municipal and outpatient partners early and continuously in the process. In many admission processes the initial treatment effort targets stabilization of the current psychiatric crisis, after which assessment, optimization of medical treatment, cognitive milieu therapy, talk therapy and social interventions become a continuing part of the young person’s hospitalization.

For many years we have worked intensively with prevention and reduction of coercion, and have achieved successes in many cases. We are concerned with the young person’s path from our ward to the receiving outpatient clinic and the youth life to be lived after discharge, and we make an effort to ensure good transitions and prevent readmissions.

We also provide ambulant forensic services for youths under 18, and have close collaboration with the center’s other departments and highly specialized outpatient services.

The ward is led by a head nurse and a chief physician.

We focus on creating a healthy and safe working environment together with you. We are each other’s work environment, and we emphasize a good multidisciplinary and social community.

The job

We are looking for you who are a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and inspired by working with severe mental disorders in an intensive treatment framework.

You will become part of a multidisciplinary treatment and staff group that works bio-psycho-socially with optimization of medical treatment, milieu therapy, talk therapy during hospitalization and follow-up on social support interventions after discharge. Our inpatients have complex symptoms and needs, and therefore it is important that we reap the fruits of our collective competencies in the ward.

That is why we work in a team-based manner, and it is our interdisciplinarity and collaboration that ensures the holistic approach, which is crucial for our patients.

Together with the ward’s chief physician, leading chief physician and the other treatment group you will play an important role in setting the professional direction for treatment pathways, ensuring continuity of treatment, offering sparring to training doctors and staff, and contributing to the ward’s quality work and professional development.

In addition, your duties on the ward include

• Diagnosis and treatment of young people with complex psychiatric disorders
• Diagnosis and treatment in juvenile forensic psychiatric processes
• Leading patient pathways, where you are the treatment-responsible specialist
• Meeting management at various types of multidisciplinary conferences
• Guidance of teaching doctors
• Contribute to professional development in the ward, including teaching
• Build bridges and create integration between different professional perspectives and involve the young person’s and parents’ perspectives to ensure a holistic and individually tailored treatment for our patients
• Contribute to solving specialized administrative tasks, including forensic psychiatric statements.

What we offer

We offer an exciting and professionally challenging position in a community characterized by responsibility, collaboration and attention to both our treatment environment for the young and our shared working environment.

We challenge each other professionally and we have fun together. We accommodate our patients’ challenges, and take care of each other so we can be there for our patients in a caring, professional and sustainable way.

We prioritize professional development both for the ward and for the individual employee. Clear opportunities for competence development and continuing education could be within psychopathology and psychometrics, psychotherapy, and forensic psychiatry.

Who are you?

You are a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry with professional engagement and interest in assessment, medical treatment, understanding the importance of talk therapy and multidisciplinary collaboration in highly specialized treatment teams. You may be interested in research and certainly interested in professional development, teaching and quality development.

You take responsibility for your part of the results we achieve together on the ward, for your and your colleagues’ professional development and for your own and our shared working environment and well-being. You are a team player and want to work with respect and at eye level with our inpatients and their parents in an intensive treatment phase characterized by severe psychopathology.

You manage to help keep hope alive for our patients, and you can articulate and support our many good treatment options, and the collaboration with the young person to feel better.

You are a positive role model for medical treatment, guidance and care.

You are an experienced or newly graduated specialist. The most important is your willingness and commitment to come and make a positive difference for our inpatients.

A little more about us

Click the link to hear more about the ward, our treatment work and daily life on B204

https://vimeo.com/1217303010/4c0e50c3f3?fl=ip&fe=ec

If you have questions about the position or would like a coffee or a tour of the ward

Contact: Thomas Tellier, Chief Physician

Phone: 20523856

Email: [email protected]

Salary and terms of employment

The position is to be filled by 1 December 2026 or as agreed.

The position is full-time.

As a specialist, you are employed under the agreement for Subordinate Doctors - 33.06.1

There is a possibility to join BUC’s on-call team. If you wish this, your ward’s head physician can assist with your application, or you can contact the on-call chief physician for the 24-hour service, Marie Louise Max Andersen at email [email protected].

In accordance with statutory requirements, if employed at the Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a clean child–youth certificate must be presented. The Center will obtain the certificate from the National Police with the applicant’s consent, who is being considered for employment.

References will always be sought in agreement with the applicant before a final employment decision.

Application process

Send your motivated application with CV, any attachments, specialist recognition, authorizations etc. via the link on this page. Application deadline is 10 November 2026.

Assessing applicants will be based on your information about your own competencies within each of the 7 competencies for specialists, thus the application should be prepared accordingly.

About the Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUC)

The Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUC) is part of Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital and covers the entire Region Hovedstaden. The center conducts assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with all forms of serious mental disorders requiring a multidisciplinary hospital-based approach. The center has two clinical departments: Outpatient Department and Inpatient Department, spread across several campuses in the region, as well as a large research unit.

In addition, the center has a number of support functions, including an administration and a quality and improvement unit. In total, we are about 1,000 staff who participate in close multidisciplinary collaboration for the approximately 18,000 children and adolescents aged 0-17 who are seen at the center annually (2025). More information about the Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry can be found on the BUC website www.buc-regionh.dk.