Nurses for Perioperative Unit, Thisted

We are seeking two nurses with a primary role in the Perioperative Unit, Thisted as of January 1, 2027 - 37 hours per week or as requested. The positions have cross-sectional function in the overall department.

Unit profile

The Perioperative Unit is organizationally placed within the Operation and Treatment Department Thisted.

In 2024/2025 the Perioperative Unit underwent a thorough renovation. The unit presents with bright and work-friendly physical facilities.

The Operation and Treatment Department consists of a newly renovated operating suite with a total of six operating rooms, of which one is reserved for cesarean sections.

There is a 24-hour on-call service at the operating room, where acute orthopedic and gynecological surgeries are performed. In addition, elective operations are performed on three to four lines daily. A large part of our operations is elective surgery.

In addition, the department houses an Ear-Nose-Throat outpatient clinic, an Endoscopy department with two scope rooms, and a Sterile Central.

The daytime surgical procedures include orthopedic surgery (hand, foot, knee), abdominal surgery, gynecology and urology, ear-nose-throat surgery and neurosurgery (spine).

The daytime surgical patients are received in the Perioperative Unit and prepared for surgery, recovery, and later discharge.

The acute surgeries include orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and the complex and longer waking-up processes with subsequent admission to the main department are also handled in the perioperative unit. Nursing tasks are complex and may relate to both pre- and postoperative care.

The Perioperative Unit consists of 11 recovery beds distributed across two areas in the department with accompanying mobilization units.

The department participates in the education of nursing students, social and health care assistants, the training of ambulance personnel, and the education of intensive care staff for recovery functions.

Working hours

The Perioperative Unit is open on weekdays from 07:30 to 18:00. In time, there may be opening hours in the evening hours.

Qualifications required for applicants

• Interest or possibly experience from recovery departments or working with patients throughout the whole perioperative process
• Demonstrates a high degree of independence and flexibility
• Responsible for task execution
• Good at communicating purposefully in brief patient contacts
• Can join a team and manage personal, professional, and collaborative relationships.

We offer

• A well-structured induction and training program based on competence cards
• You will be assigned a mentor, and your training will be arranged with regard to previous experience
• An exciting and active daily life with varied tasks within different specialties
• A department where we have the patient in focus and involve relatives as far as possible
• A job with exceptionally good colleagues
• Follow-up conversations after one and three months of employment with the manager and an annual development conversation.

In 2023 the OP Treatment Department was awarded the Patients’ Prize. We are a department where professionalism is high, and where we continually strive to be exceptionally good at the ordinary.

We work from the conceptual framework Fundamentals of Care, and have a clear focus on being a “being capable” department, where we are each other’s prerequisite for benefiting our patients.

The OP and Treatment Department is a dynamic and developing department, where there is an opportunity to influence and develop nursing, and where your nursing competencies come into play.

We place great emphasis on flexibility, shared responsibility, influence in daily life, team collaboration and collaboration across all units in the OP and Treatment Department.

Further information about the positions can be obtained from Chief Chief Nurse Helle Isaksen at tel. 97650875 or 51529091.

Application deadline 01.11.2026.

Interviews will take place in week 46.

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the current collective agreement for non-management staff in the Health Cartel area entered into with the relevant organizations.