Deputy Doctor for Psychiatric Area in Greenland, Queen Ingrid's Hospital, Nuuk

Resident Doctor for Psychiatric Area in Greenland, Queen Ingrid's Hospital, Nuuk

Are you up for at least 6 months of residency in psychiatry, Dr. Ingrid's Hospital in Nuuk, Greenland?

As a psychiatric doctor in Nuuk, you have a meaningful job where you can make a visible difference for your patients. You follow your own patients through their treatment process, which provides a good opportunity to assess treatment effects and to build relationships with each patient. With us, you will experience close personal collaboration with many staff groups and a strong sense of community, both professionally and socially.

As our department handles all psychiatric treatment in Greenland, you can acquire a wide range of psychiatric skills here, and the opportunities for bedside supervision are good. The position is particularly relevant for you with experience in adult or child and adolescent psychiatry, but we also welcome an application from you without psychiatric experience. In the shifts, we receive both children and adults, but there is also the opportunity to gain outpatient experience in child and adolescent psychiatry if you have a particular interest in this.

The Psychiatric Area consists of the inpatient department A1 (12 beds, of which three are in a secure section) and the psychiatric outpatient clinic (including a general psychiatric outpatient clinic as well as the district psychiatry in Nuuk with 170 associated patients). We have a collaboration with the Central Denmark Region with a monthly conference and 16 beds in a forensic psychiatric department at Aarhus University Hospital, as well as a weekly conference with child and adolescent psychiatry in the Capital Region.

What can you expect?

As a junior doctor in the Psychiatric Area, you have functions in the department, in the psychiatric outpatient clinic, and are part of the on-call team. In the department, you are the contact doctor and conduct ward rounds on your own patients in collaboration with other doctors and handle assessment and treatment. Outpatient, you see patients associated with the district psychiatry or general psychiatric outpatient clinic, including telepsychiatric consultations with patients from the coast.

You will be the on-call doctor in a 3-5 shift rotation, where there is always the opportunity for supervision from the backup doctor.

The on-call doctor has on-call duty from home with an average workload after normal daytime work of 3 hours. We have up to 7 admissions per week, most of which occur during the day. There is close collaboration with specialists with time allocated for professional sparring every day and good opportunities for personal feedback.

This structure also allows you, as a doctor, to take on significant responsibility for individual patient processes in a safe environment. The Psychiatric Area is approved as a training department for the main education in General Medicine.

You will never be alone with us, as we have a good collegial team spirit in psychiatry and have collaboration agreements with specialists in Denmark.

With us, you get unique opportunities for professional development, especially in psychosis issues, suicidology, traumatology, and the transcultural field. You can also get involved in research in these areas if interested.

What do we expect from you?

It is a requirement that you have Danish authorization for independent practice. Pre-KBU doctors may be offered employment in special cases.

Furthermore, it is expected that you are eager for professional development and close collaboration with other professional groups. You possess a good overview and have good collaboration skills, and you are resilient and adaptable.

Who are you?

We are looking for junior doctors who can combine medical professionalism with a desire to work in psychiatry in Nuuk, where there are many different patients and many exciting tasks. You should be able to maintain an overview and be flexible, as the medical field is challenged within a broad range of diagnoses and collaboration with several professional groups, partners, and a daily routine with acute and logistical issues.

Nuuk

Nuuk is a city and nature combined in one place. There are many cultural and culinary experiences, and you can quickly get out into the mountains or into the fjord. In summer, there is sunshine at night and whales in Nuuk Fjord, and in the winter months, the northern lights are part of your everyday life, just as you can ski both cross-country and downhill on the city's trails.

Application

Applications accompanied by copies of relevant documents must be sent in PDF format.

Start date: October 1, November 1, or December 1, 2026

Application deadline: September 1, 2026

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis

We can offer junior doctors a minimum of 6 months of employment in the Psychiatric Area, Queen Ingrid's Hospital in Nuuk.

Contact

Information about the position can be obtained from Astrid Mikkelsen, email: ASMI@PEQQIK.GL

Housing

Housing will be provided according to the rules applicable in the Greenlandic Health Service at any given time.

Salary and employment

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to relocation and moving expenses, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement applicable 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 on a valid residence and work permit. Residence and work permits can only be applied for upon agreed employment.

The Greenlandic Health Service – Breadth, Challenge, and Professional Pride

The Greenlandic Health Service is 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 health service.

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

In Greenland, there are ample opportunities to live an active leisure life. In summer, hiking, whale watching, hunting, fishing, and boating are great activities. Winter offers 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 plenty of 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

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Organizational chart of the Greenlandic Health Service

The Greenlandic Health Service is a smoke-free workplace.

We only accept applications in PDF format, electronically.

Applications sent by email will be deleted immediately for your safety.