Are you our new physiotherapist for neurorehabilitation?

Are you passionate about making a difference for people with acquired brain injury? We offer a permanent position of 37 hours per week as a physiotherapist within highly specialized and regional rehabilitation with longer patient pathways.

The position is available for filling as of 1 January 2027

We are seeking a new colleague for our therapy group in the Brain Injury Department. The position will primarily involve care for adults with brain injury. You will become part of an interdisciplinary team where we work together to ensure that patients with brain injuries can achieve as independent and meaningful a life as possible, so they can become active citizens despite their impairment.

We work in teams consisting of nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists, secretaries and doctors. As a specialty department we are characterized by strong development and we have ambitious goals for a high level of mono- and multidisciplinary work.

The Brain Injury Department is one of two departments forming the Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries, at the Bodil Eskesen Center at Rigshospitalet Glostrup.

At the Brain Injury Department we currently have capacity for highly specialized patients and regional patients. We receive patients from all of East Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Patients' ages range from 1 year and up. We are currently a therapy group consisting of 20 occupational therapists, 22 physiotherapists, 2 development occupational therapists and a development physiotherapist, clinical instructors in occupational therapy and physiotherapy and 2 senior therapists.

What characterizes us

• A thorough mono- and multidisciplinary introduction to the specialty, where you are assigned a mono-disciplinary mentor
• A workplace with competent, curious and ambitious mono- and multidisciplinary colleagues who lift the core task of rehabilitation with focus on patient – and relative participation and the coherent patient pathway
• A work community where well-being and cross-disciplinary collaboration across the organization are important values
• A strong and developing multidisciplinary team collaboration
• A high professional environment where there is an opportunity to delve into this part of neurorehabilitation
• Opportunity to work with new and unique training equipment

Your primary areas of work will be

• Rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury and their relatives in the first part of the rehabilitation process
• Rehabilitation at both body- and activity-level with the activity perspective in focus.
• Testing and fitting of aids/devices
• Interdisciplinary collaboration focusing on the patients overall life situation
• You work with strong mono-disciplinary focus within a multidisciplinary team

We expect that you

• Can navigate long-term and complex patient pathways
• Have experience with or an interest in neurorehabilitation
• Have good interprofessional collaboration skills
• Can work independently and responsibly
• Are problem-solving and results-oriented
• Have courage and resilience to change
• Have an evidence-based approach to the work.
• Are open and curious and can argue for your professional opinions.

Employment terms

Working hours are between 7:00 and 15:45, with one weekly late shift (11:30-18:30). There will be weekend shifts (both days) every 6-7 weeks and public holiday shifts.

Salary and employment terms follow the collective agreement for non-supervisory staff in the Health Cartel area 33.21.1 and the position is covered by the regulation on obtaining a Childrens Certificate.

Application procedure

For further information, you are welcome to contact Senior Therapist Nora Holmestad-Bechmann at phone 21465556 or e-mail: [email protected] , tel: Janni Sleimann at phone 40 74 84 31 or e-mail: [email protected] . TR Susanne Kirk Baag3 e-mail: Susanne.kirk.baagø@regionh.dk

Applications are accepted online via the link below.

The application deadline is 16/11-26 and interviews will be held on 19/11-26

We look forward to receiving your application!