Head of Development for Psychotherapeutic Center Stolpegård at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

Psykoterapeutisk Center Stolpegård is facing a major organizational and professional development. As part of a new organization of psychiatry at Herlev og Gentofte Hospital, a number of specialized functions, which today are located at Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup, are being gathered at Stolpegård. This includes, among other things, psychotherapeutic treatment, treatment of eating disorders and transcultural psychiatry. The center thus grows from around 90 to more than 300 employees and will have a significantly broader and more complex portfolio of tasks.

The ambition is to create stronger professional environments and better opportunities for coherent patient pathways, research and professional development. With the gathering of specialized competencies, Stolpegård will also become a nationally leading center that helps shape the development of psychotherapeutic and specialized psychiatric treatment.

Psykoterapeutisk Center Stolpegård is seeking a development chief who, together with the chief physician and the current development chief, will form the center’s new three-part department leadership. The three leaders will have equal and shared responsibility for the center’s overall operations, professionalism, well-being and strategic development. A central task will be to create a strong and well-functioning common leadership that can unite the different professional environments, set direction and translate the center’s ambitions into practice.

About Psykoterapeutisk Center Stolpegård

Psykoterapeutisk Center Stolpegård is a specialized center for psychotherapy with a long tradition of high professionalism and development of psychotherapeutic treatment. Today, the center provides outpatient treatment for adults with, among other things, anxiety and OCD, personality disorders, PTSD and non-psychiatric dual diagnosis and has regional functions in several areas.

With the new organization the center will gain a broader professional profile with specialized treatment offerings within eating disorders and transcultural psychiatry. The new professional environments also strengthen the center’s research foundation, which going forward will include two professorships.

The center is characterized by high professionalism and a close interaction between treatment, research and development. There is a focus on quality, coherent patient pathways and on supporting patients’ own opportunities and strengths. An important part of the center’s culture is that leaders and employees take joint responsibility for professionalism, each other and a good working environment.

About the position

As development chief you will, together with the chief physician and the other development chief, be part of a new three-part department leadership with shared responsibility for the center’s operations and development.

One of the department leadership’s first major tasks will be to shape the new organization. You will help set direction and create involvement and followership in an organization where not all solutions are given in advance. We want a department leadership with complementary competencies. The concrete task and responsibility distribution will be determined with reference to the overall leadership task and the three leaders’ competencies.

The position includes, among other things

• To contribute to secure operations, well-being and realization of the center’s strategic goals and prioritized initiatives
• To create coherence and collaboration between the center’s different professional environments
• To strengthen treatment, quality and patient safety and translate professional knowledge and development into better patient pathways
• To lead and facilitate development and change processes with a focus on involvement and implementation
• To develop collaboration and learning in the center and with Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup as well as with the hospital’s somatic departments and relevant external partners

The work ranges from strategic tasks to more practice-oriented development tasks.

About you

You have a relevant health professional education and substantial experience in the psychotherapeutic field. You must also be able to participate in a three-part department leadership with a close and committed joint management responsibility.

We emphasize that you

• have solid leadership experience and experience leading development and changes in a complex health-professional organization
• have a strong strategic and organizational view and can create direction, followership and collaboration across professions as well as translate professional ambitions into practice
• can balance professional development with responsibility for operations, quality, economy and working environment
• have experience with or insight into bed-based psychiatry and the interplay between outpatient treatment and inpatient care
• have experience in or with managerial support for larger research projects and the development of ambitious research environments
• are an open and relational leader who emphasizes involvement of staff and strong collaboration with patients and relatives
• thrive with shared leadership and can bring your own competencies and perspectives into play while taking responsibility for the whole and the joint decisions in the department leadership

Experience with the eating disorders area would be an advantage, just as knowledge of newer developments within recovery, transdiagnosis and modular-based treatment would be relevant.

We would like you to have a relevant leadership education at master’s level or equivalent.

What you will be a part of

Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is one of Denmark’s largest acute hospitals and one of the country’s national cancer centers. We have a wide range of highly specialized functions in both psychiatry and somatics, a large research environment and a major education duty. We treat patients in acute, specialized and planned pathways and have activities on several sites.

We are a university hospital with ambitions to develop treatment through research, education and strong professional environments. With psychiatry and somatics brought together at the hospital, we also have new opportunities to create better continuity for patients and to strengthen collaboration and learning across specialties.

We collaborate closely across the hospital and with municipalities, general practice and the region on the development of the health system and on translating the health reform into new solutions for patients and citizens.

As development chief you will, together with the other department leadership, be part of the hospital management where the executive management and department leadership together set the direction for the hospital’s development. This gives you the opportunity to both influence the development of Stolpegård and contribute to the hospital’s overall development.

We can offer you

• A central role in the construction of the new Stolpegård
• A specialized environment with high professionalism and strong ambitions for treatment and quality
• A place in both the center’s department leadership and HGH’s overall hospital leadership

The position is available for occupancy from 1 January 2027 or by arrangement.

Salary and terms of employment

Based on your educational background you will be employed either

In accordance with the agreement for non-administrative academic managers entered into between the professional organizations and Regionernes Lønnings- og Takstnævn.

Or

In accordance with the agreement for managers in the Health Cartel’s area, entered into between the Danish Nurses Association and Regionernes Lønnings- og Takstnævn.

Further information about the position

If you would like further information, you are very welcome to contact Deputy Director Rene Priess at phone 21 64 83 54 .

Application deadline and process

The application deadline is 15 November 2026. You submit your application via the advertisement link on this page.

The first interview round is expected to be held on 23 November 2026.

A personality assessment will be conducted for candidates who proceed to the second interview round.

The second interview round is expected to be held on 9 December 2026.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Reference material

• Job description
• Guiding principles for good leadership
• Hospital’s ambition “Well treated”
• Vision for the Capital Region of Denmark
• Region Hovedstaden’s leadership framework
• Region Hovedstadens Hospitalsplan