District psychiatric home nurse sought for Maniitsoq Health Center

District Psychiatric Home Nurse Wanted for Maniitsoq Health Center

We offer an exciting, independent, and challenging job as a psychiatric home nurse at Maniitsoq Health Center.
The position is a permanent position but can possibly be applied for as a 3-6 month temporary position. The position is for 40 hours a week, with attendance between 08:00 - 16:00 on weekdays, during working hours you will organize your own tasks.

The psychiatric home care is associated with about 60 citizens, all with a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders and issues. You meet the patient, who attends outpatient or home visits in the city's living units or private homes. If you are not proficient in Greenlandic, you have an interpreter available in your work.

The tasks primarily involve patient contact, supportive conversations, medication administration, follow-up on effects/side effects, ECG and blood test controls, with particular attention to compliance, KRAM, and patients with court orders for treatment. Additionally, 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 patients' admissions or for the staff in the city's living units, support persons – a task that must be prioritized highly.

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

Psychiatric home care also assists patients in outpatient assessments 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.

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

We offer:

• A professionally challenging job in an independent function in a smaller team
• Introduction
• Good access to collegial sparring and support.
• Good access to supervision and sparring with the nationwide psychiatry in Nuuk
• Opportunities for competence development through funding both in Greenland and outside Greenland once a year (agreed upon during MUS conversation)
• Opportunity to participate in the annual District Psychiatric seminar with others from all over Greenland in similar positions.

We are looking for you who:

• Are a nurse with experience in psychiatric nursing
• Psychiatric or therapeutic specialization or other relevant education.
• Possess the ability to be persistent, develop, and maintain professional relationships in patient work.
• Have good collaboration skills and are loyal to your work – your colleagues and management.

About us:

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

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 health assistants, and 4 health 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 16:00 and 08:00, the inpatient department functions as an emergency room – however, we do not expect you to have emergency room experience.

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

Additionally, the center has a laboratory, X-ray, nursing consultation, emergency room/reception, and pharmacy.

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

A bit about Maniitsoq:

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

There are about 3100 inhabitants in the district, with about 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 in the summer months, a fast boat route to Nuuk.

Recreational activities in the summer 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 year-round there are opportunities for various sports activities in the town's hall.

Application

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

Start date: November 16, 2026, or by agreement

Application deadline: September 25, 2026

Employment interviews are conducted continuously

Contact

Information about the position can be obtained from management and recruitment consultant Ann Birkekær Kjeldsen at email: ABKJ@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 Care, the Greenlandic Patient Home, and the health service's Operations Area.

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 the summer, hiking, whale watching, hunting, fishing, and boat trips are obvious 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 towns, 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.

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