Occupational Therapist for Hand Therapy - Permanent Position

Occupational Therapist

Midt- and West Zealand Hospital, Slagelse

Are you passionate about becoming part of a professionally strong team, then this position might be for you?

The occupational therapy department at Midt- and West Zealand Hospital, Slagelse is seeking an occupational therapist in a permanent position in the hand group for 37 hours per week as of 1 November 2026 or as soon as possible.

Your new colleagues

You will meet 14 dedicated occupational therapists – including one senior occupational therapist, three specialty-lead occupational therapists, as well as a clinical instructor. In addition, one medical secretary.

As an occupational therapist you will perform outpatient specialized rehabilitation of hand surgery patients. Your patients have fractures in the hand, forearm and elbow, tendon lesions, grip and nerve injuries, amputations and other complex hand injuries.

On a busy day it is important that you are adaptable and can maintain an overview – even when today’s bookings must be changed urgently. You work precisely and efficiently in your documentation and are eager to contribute to the ongoing development of the specialty.

We use systematic competency development in the form of skills stations and competency profiles.

Your primary tasks will be

• Assessment of the extent of the injury and the training potential
• Rehabilitation of the lost functions
• Activity trials
• Assessment of the need for rehabilitation after discharge from the hospital
• Splinting treatment

To succeed in the position you are expected to

• Be a professional and clinically skilled occupational therapist
• Have interest or experience with working with hand surgery
• Be eager to work with acute patients
• Contribute to a good work community and work environment
• Be fundamentally positive, and see opportunities rather than limitations
• Thrive in an unpredictable daily life
• Reflect on your own practice, and wish to develop personal and professional competencies
• Have good communication skills
• Have good collaboration skills – and be a team player

We offer a workplace with

• A thorough introduction to your new workplace and tasks
• A good working environment based on mutual respect and helpfulness across occupational therapy
• Dedicated and professionally skilled colleagues
• Professional sparring with colleagues
• Professional development
• A high degree of cross-disciplinary collaboration, especially with hand surgeons
• Great independence in relation to task solving
• A practical placement for occupational therapy students from ABSALON in Næstved

Your working hours are from 8:00 to 15:00 and one day a week until 17:00. There are no weekend shifts in this position.

Do you thrive in an environment with a focus on high professionalism and good wellbeing?

"We are a dynamic group of 4 occupational therapists who are passionate about rehabilitation of hand patients and find it exciting and developing to work with new operation methods and training methods. We collaborate and spar with each other, and have a close and equal collaboration with the hand surgeons. Our workday is very varied and we have a great deal of influence on planning – as well as good wellbeing and humor being a daily focus"

Your new workplace

Occupational therapy at Slagelse Hospital is part of the department: Medicine 3 Physical and Occupational Therapy, Midt- and West Zealand Hospital – and we continuously work on improvements and quality every day.

Would you like to know more?

You can obtain job description and further information about the position by contacting Senior Occupational Therapist Trine Nielsen at telephone 51 58 10 92 or Specialty Lead Occupational Therapist Tine Drejer Christensen at telephone 58 55 96 26.

Would you like to be our new colleague?

Submit your application with your exam certificate and other relevant attachments by 21 October 2026. Interviews are expected to take place in week 44.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Employment area

Region Zealand and Region Capital will become Region Østdanmark on 1 January 2027 as a result of the health reform. Your employment area will be Region Østdanmark with all associated organizational units.

Read more about the meaning of the employment area on Region Østdanmark's website.

Starting salary for unionized employees

The region is obliged to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be told the base salary, centrally set allowances and pension under the relevant collective agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See the starting salary on the region's website

About Midt- and West Zealand Hospital

At Midt- and West Zealand Hospital we work every day to promote healthy living by preventing and treating in a coherent health effort. As a hospital we combine psychiatry and somatics. Our aim is for patients and citizens to experience good and safe pathways of high quality.

As an employee you will be part of a forward-thinking, professionally and organizationally robust hospital, where we make a difference for the people who need us. Learning and development are part of everyday life and occur in professionally binding communities. Also across departments.

Midt- and West Zealand Hospital covers a catchment area of about 230,000 residents. We have 766 beds and about 5,000 employees distributed across 20 departments, including 16 somatic and psychiatric specialties.

We offer a solid research environment with 13 professors and a strong professional educational environment, where we every year welcome around 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in further education programs.