Visionary clinical nurse specialist sought for the operating department

Are you passionate about developing clinical practice within perioperative nursing?

Do you enjoy putting your knowledge and skills to use together with a professionally strong and engaged group of perioperative nurses, and are you the one who can motivate, inspire and facilitate development? If you answer yes, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you.

We offer an exciting position in an efficient and professionally strong department, where you will share responsibility for the development of perioperative nursing. We want a professional nursing practice, where we emphasize well-being and good cross-disciplinary collaboration as well as patient pathways with high patient safety.

Who are we?

The Department of Anesthesia, Surgery and Intensive Care at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital is one of the Region’s largest departments with about 600 employees. Since 1 October 2024 the department is physically on two sites with a chief physician and 2 chief nurses and we have a well-functioning cross-departmental research unit, which is located on the Herlev campus.

Gentofte Hospital is the Region’s development hospital for planned surgery with focus on quality and development of the best patient pathways. We focus on education and desire high professionalism as well as stable production. There is a strong focus on further development of our day-case surgical pathways within alloplastic surgery in relation to the newly established ”Center for Planned Joint and Bone Surgery”.

The Department of Anesthesia, Surgery and Intensive Care consists of anesthesia, surgical, recovery and intensive care units as well as sterilization. We are an across-department clinical department with a range of functions and tasks linked to treatment in the clinical departments. With the hospital’s vision “Well treated” we strive to create well-planned patient pathways for our patients in short treatment courses. Even a small operation can feel big for the individual patient.

We therefore have a strong focus on continuous professional development, high quality and interdisciplinary collaboration in the overall patient pathway.

We are about 60 perioperative nurses, from new graduates to very experienced, all with great commitment. We place high priority on visible leadership and mutual cooperation. You will become part of an organization with a patient focus. There is room for new ideas and goals for future nursing.

The department is organized with professionally responsible nurses within all subspecialties. This also applies within perioperative nursing. In addition, the department has a clinical nurse specialist attached to all wards to raise nursing care and expertise throughout the patient pathway.

The department primarily handles elective surgery patients and is highly specialized in the following areas:

• Orthopedic surgery, including alloplastics for knees and hips, shoulder section and hand surgery
• Urology
• Abdominal surgery (small specialty)

Your closest collaboration partners will be perioperative nurses, professionally responsible perioperative nurses, clinical nurse specialists in other wards, and our two chief nurses for the perioperative department.

The clinical nurse specialist's tasks are to

• assist in strengthening and making visible an evidence- and development-based clinical nursing practice that supports perioperative nursing
• collaborate with the professionally responsible nurses, nursing leadership and multi-disciplinary partners on the quality and development initiatives underway
• take the initiative for continuous development of existing and new areas within perioperative nursing with a focus on the good patient pathway across the department
• develop the competencies of the department's perioperative nurses, including based on competency cards 1-8 and other cards, especially card A. In addition, to guide the perioperative nurses who are pursuing further education.
• assist in ensuring that evidence is applied reflected and reasoned in clinical decision making
• initiate and sustain teaching and development activities
• focus on staff potential and further develop it
• ensure maintenance of own clinical competencies, including through clinical tasks in the clinic

We seek a clinical nurse specialist with the following personal profile

• Registered nurse with clinical experience in perioperative nursing
• Relevant or ongoing master's degree
• Experience with quality development of patient pathways
• Courage to give constructive feedback in clinical work
• Pedagogical skills and teaching experience
• Good communication skills, both oral and written
• Good collaboration skills and a problem-solving approach
• Organizational understanding
• Flexible and engaged
• Good at organizing, prioritizing, coordinating and keeping an overview
• Good IT skills

Salary and employment terms

You are employed in a permanent position of 37 hours per week and report to the chief nurse. The position is available February 1, 2027 or by agreement. As a rule, daytime shifts on weekdays and the working hours are 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM, with possible late shifts.

Salary and employment terms follow the collective agreement for non-management staff in the Health Cartel area, concluded between the Health Cartel’s parties, including the Danish Nurses’ Organization and the Regions’ Salary and Tariff Board.

If you would like to hear more about the position, you are welcome to contact

Chief Nurse Karin Marker on tel. 21 52 07 30 where the job description can also be requested.

Application deadline: 20 November 2026

Interviews will be held on Monday 30.11.2026