Special psychologist/experienced psychologist for the Suicide Prevention Unit

Suicide Prevention Unit currently consists of 7 psychologists, a consulting physician specializing in psychiatry, a leader responsible for personnel budget, consulting social workers, and three secretaries.

As an experienced psychologist we expect that you can participate with sparring and coordination in the daily operations. This position offers a special opportunity to help set the framework and influence both daily operations and the region's suicide prevention work.

The unit's purpose is to handle subacute treatment as well as preventive efforts for individuals who have attempted suicide or have persistent suicidal thoughts and who are not the target group of psychiatry. The unit covers the entire region and has youth from 15 years and adults in its target group.

The treatment offering consists of short-term therapy or supportive conversations, supplemented with psychoeducation in groups. The offering includes patients in personal crisis possibly with mild depressive or anxiety symptoms. Patients with more severe psychiatric disorders are treated in the rest of psychiatry. The unit emphasizes the involvement of relatives and professional network persons in the process, and support and guidance to relatives and bereaved.

We are currently seeking a senior psychologist or a psychologist with broad and relevant experience to handle clinical work as well as to participate in coordinating tasks. The clinical work will consist of individual conversations, with a starting point in ACT and in David Jobes’ CAMS framework, but with freedom of method in the treatment. This also includes screening for mental disorders and referral of referred patients to the unit.

You will be required to take on an essential role for the unit, and we expect that you

• Bring broad professional knowledge that can be used in patient pathways as well as for internal conferences etc.
• Can independently manage short-term psychotherapeutic psychology programs in the unit
• Share responsibility for cross-sector collaboration in psychiatry in terms of operations and secure patient flow
• Co-responsible for framing, supervising and creating good conditions for staff task fulfillment
• Co-responsible for recruitment, onboarding and retention of staff in the unit and ensuring the workplace as an attractive place of work and education
• Co-responsible for good cooperation and working environment in the unit
• Opportunity for daily presence

In addition to the daily operations in the unit, you will be required to undertake tasks outside the house, e.g. participate in sparring with the other suicide prevention clinics in Denmark, participate in various national suicide prevention councils, etc.

Qualifications

• Senior psychologist, specialist or psychologist with clinical practice training or the like. We prefer someone with experience in the adult psychiatry area and/or child/youth area.
• Is motivated for coordinating and operational tasks in the unit. Good at initiating and continually supporting short- and long-term plans/directions for the unit.
• Good collaboration skills and good communication abilities
• Ability to motivate and give professional sparring
• Ability to achieve results based on collaboration and coordination
• Interested in the perspectives of working in short-term therapy
• Particularly interested in suicide prevention work and has experience with this
• Flexible, has overview and good collaboration skills in a cross-disciplinary group
• Open to undertaking teaching tasks

We offer

• An exciting and challenging job where the combination of operational tasks and clinical work with patients goes hand in hand
• Depending on the applicant's area of expertise, there is an opportunity to work with both local suicide prevention interventions and to work more nationwide on the suicide prevention area.
• Many outward-facing and independent tasks.
• Broad interdisciplinary collaboration
• Close collaboration in a small outpatient clinic with ample opportunity for collegial sparring and a strong focus on well-being and a relaxed, safe working environment
• Opportunities to participate in relevant courses, theme days and supervision
• Be part of a team that works purposefully on the development of the area

About Psychiatry

The Psychiatry in the North Jutland Region is in constant development with a focus on professional specialization and increased outpatient treatment. Furthermore, it is Psychiatry's vision to ensure high quality in solving psychiatry's tasks for the benefit of patients, users and relatives.

Education of students and trainees is one of Psychiatry's core tasks, to which all staff contribute.

Currently there are areas which, due to the 10-year plan for psychiatry and mental health, particularly the national focus on suicide prevention work, have our special attention. It concerns prevention of the spread of knowledge about suicide prevention, cross-sector and cross-agency collaboration, education of psychiatry staff to improve suicide prevention within psychiatry, and further development of psychoeducation in groups, where the target group has currently been expanded to other patient groups in Psychiatry.

We operate from the patient-centered leadership organization. Based on this, Psychiatry in the North Jutland Region is organized in the following areas:

• General Psychiatric Department, South
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Department
• Forensic Psychiatric Department
• General Psychiatric Department, North
• Geriatric Psychiatry Department

General Psychiatric Department, South covers open and intensive bed wards, an emergency psychiatric department with reception, and an extensive outpatient function.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatric Department both have bed wards and outpatient functions. These three departments are all located in Aalborg.

In Brønderslev we have General Psychiatric Department, North and Geriatric Psychiatry Department, which both have different bed wards and outpatient offerings.

Psychotic disorders, including OPUS, fall under General Psychiatric Department, South and have an address at Brandevej 5 in Aalborg East.

Practical information

• We obtain references on the person we wish to hire. If required for the position, we also obtain a criminal record and child abuse clearance.
• Salary and terms of employment according to the applicable agreement for academics employed in regions, etc., concluded with the relevant AC organizations
• The position is normally 37 hours per week. Possibility to adjust working hours can be discussed
• Education of students and trainees is one of General Psychiatric Department, Aalborg's core tasks that all employees contribute to.
• In the North Jutland Region we have a smoke-free work environment.
• Interviews: 16/11 2026

You submit your application by clicking the “Søg Job” button and filling out the form that appears. You can attach your application, CV and any attachments. We only receive applications via the link in the job advertisement. Applications sent by email will not be processed.