District Psychiatric Home Nurse

We are looking for a skilled nurse with psychiatric experience and a desire to work independently for a position as a district psychiatric home nurse in Maniitsoq starting from March 1, 2026.

The position may possibly be filled by a Healthcare Assistant with several years of experience in psychiatry, documented medication competence, and post- or further education in psychiatry.

We offer an academically interesting, independent, and challenging job as a psychiatric home nurse at Maniitsoq Hospital. The position is a permanent position but can possibly be applied for as a temporary position of at least 3 months duration. The position is 40 hours per week. Attendance is between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM on weekdays – within working hours, you organize your own tasks.

The psychiatric home care is connected to approximately 60 citizens, all with a wide range of psychiatric disorders and issues. You meet the patient who attends outpatient appointments or during home visits in the city's housing units or private homes. If you do not speak Greenlandic, you have an interpreter available for your work.

The tasks primarily consist of patient contact, supportive conversations, medication administration, follow-up on effects, side effects, ECG and blood test controls, as well as special attention to compliance, KRAM, and patients with a court order for treatment. In addition, the tasks may include psychoeducation, establishing meetings with groups of relatives, contact with social workers to initiate support for a good life, guidance, supervision, and support for the staff in the department during patient admissions or for the staff in the city's housing units and support persons – a task that should be prioritized highly.

Psychiatric home nursing also assists patients in outpatient assessment and outpatient treatment for anxiety and depression, preventive courses after serious suicide attempts with contact via teams for outpatient treatment with psychologists and psychiatrists in Nuuk.

Patients highly value their psychiatric home nurse and consider them an important part of their lives in terms of conversation, well-being, and contact with other authorities.

There is good collaboration with the doctors and the other staff at the hospital, as well as ongoing access to support and advice from the nationwide psychiatry in Nuuk via teams.

We offer:

• A professionally challenging job in an independent role within a small team.
• Introduction
• Good access to collegial sparring and support.
• Good access to supervision and sparring with the nationwide psychiatry in Nuuk.
• Opportunity for competency development through grant funds both in Greenland and outside Greenland once a year (agreed upon during the performance review conversation)
• Opportunity to participate in the annual District Psychiatric seminar with others from across Greenland in similar positions.

We are looking for you who:

• Is a nurse with experience in psychiatric nursing.
• We see it as an advantage to have psychiatric or therapeutic further or specialized education.
• Possesses the ability to develop and maintain professional relationships in patient work.
• Has good teamwork skills and is loyal to your work, your colleagues, and management.

About us:

Maniitsoq Health Center is part of the Qeqqa Health Region and has around 60 employees. The staff is distributed between the Health Center and the three associated nursing stations in the district's settlements.

The health center's inpatient department has space for 18 hospitalized patients of all ages. The department covers all specialties, including psychiatric patients. In the inpatient department, there are 5 nurses, 4 healthcare assistants, and 4 healthcare helpers employed.

The nurses work day and evening shifts and are on call at night from their own homes – with a doctor on standby. Between 4:00 PM and 8:00 AM, the ward functions as an emergency room – however, we do not expect you to have emergency room experience.

The health center provides primary sector somatic and psychiatric home care, health care, maternity care, physiotherapy, venereal and contraception clinic, as well as 2-3 medical consultations.

The health center also has a laboratory, X-ray, nursing consultation, emergency room and urgent care, and pharmacy.

We place great emphasis on ensuring that the care of and interaction with our patients includes values such as respect, decency, recognition, and trust. The same values characterize our interactions with each other at the health center.

A little about Maniitsoq:

Maniitsoq is located on Greenland's west coast, just south of the Arctic Circle, between Nuuk to the south and Sisimiut to the north. The Maniitsoq area is very beautiful, surrounded by high and jagged mountains with glaciers that extend down to deep fjords.

There are about 3,100 inhabitants in the district, with approximately 2,500 citizens in the town and the rest in the district's three villages. The villages are visited several times a year, and transportation is by boat. The town has most modern conveniences, grocery stores, a domestic airport, weekly connections with the coastal ship, and during the summer months, a fast boat route to Nuuk.

Summer recreational activities include hiking in the mountains, fishing, cabin trips, and sailing among the humpback whales, which are characteristic of our district. In the winter months, the northern lights dance in the evening and night sky, and during the day, there are opportunities for alpine and cross-country skiing in one of Greenland's best ski areas. Additionally, Maniitsoq has an evening school with many exciting activities, and there are opportunities for various sports activities in the town's hall year-round.

Application

Application with attached copy of relevant documents must be sent in PDF format via www.gjob.dk

Start date: March 1, 2026, or by agreement

Application deadline: February 20, 2026

Job interviews are held continuously.

Contact

Information about the position can be obtained from management and recruitment consultant Ann Birkekær Kjeldsen at email: ABKJ@PEQQIK.GL or phone +299547516 / +4554325064.

Housing

Housing is allocated according to the rules in the Greenlandic Health Service that are in effect at any given time.

Salary and employment

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for joining and leaving and relocation of personal belongings, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement in effect at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

Citizenship

If you are not a Nordic citizen, please note that employment is conditional upon a valid residence and work permit. A residence and work permit can only be applied for upon agreed employment.

The Greenlandic Healthcare System – Breadth, Challenge, and Professional Pride

The Greenlandic healthcare system falls under the Department of Health and is organized into 5 regions, 8 clinical areas, the National Health Service, the Greenlandic Patient Home, and the operational area of the healthcare system.

If you are looking for professional challenges, are curious, and enjoy working broadly, then a job in the Greenlandic Health Service is for you.

You can read more about the Greenlandic healthcare system at www.gjob.dk

In Greenland, there are ample opportunities to live an active leisure life. In the summer, hiking, whale watching, hunting, fishing, and sailing are ideal activities. Winter offers the Northern Lights and plenty of skiing, and if you live north of the Arctic Circle, you can go dog sledding. In the larger cities, there is a vibrant cultural life with sports clubs, art exhibitions, concerts, cafes, and restaurants. You can read more about the region where the job is located at www.peqqik.gl

See the organizational chart of the Greenlandic healthcare system.

Organizational chart of the Greenlandic healthcare system

The Greenlandic healthcare system is a smoke-free workplace.

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