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 at 37 hours/week from 1 November 2026 or as soon as possible.

Your new colleagues

You will meet 14 dedicated occupational therapists – including a senior occupational therapist, 3 specialists in occupational therapy, and a clinical instructor. In addition, one medical secretary.

As an occupational therapist you will perform outpatient specialized rehabilitation for hand-surgical patients. Your patients present with fractures of the hand, forearm and elbow, tendon lesions, compression and nerve injuries, amputations and other complicated 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 at short notice. You will work precisely and efficiently in your documentation and enjoy working on further developing the specialty.

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

Your primary tasks will be

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

In order for you to succeed in the position, you are expected to

• Be a professional and skilled occupational therapist
• Have an interest or experience in working with hand surgery
• Be eager to work with acutely ill patients
• Contribute to a good working community and work environment
• Be fundamentally positive, and see opportunities rather than limitations
• Thrive in an unpredictable daily routine
• 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 the occupational therapy department
• Dedicated and professionally skilled colleagues
• Professional sparring with colleagues
• Professional development
• A high degree of interdisciplinary collaboration especially with hand surgeons
• Significant autonomy in task execution
• A training place for occupational therapy students from ABSALON in Næstved

Your working hours are from 8 am to 3 pm and one day a week until 5 pm. There are no weekend shifts in this position.

Do you thrive in an environment focused on high professional standards and good well-being?

”We are a dynamic group of 4 occupational therapists who are passionate about rehabilitation of hand patients and find it exciting and developmental to work with new surgical techniques and training methods. We collaborate and spar with each other, and have a close and egalitarian relationship with the hand surgeons. Our workday is very varied and we have great influence on planning – just as good well-being and humor are in focus every day.”

Your new workplace

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

Would you like to know more?

Functional description and further information about the position can be obtained by contacting Senior Occupational Therapist Trine Nielsen at telephone 51 58 10 92 or Specialist Occupational Therapist Tine Drejer Christensen at telephone 58 55 96 26.

Would you like to be our new colleague?

Please send your application with your exam certificate and other relevant attachments no later than 21 October 2026. Interviews are expected to be held in week 44.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Employment area

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

Read more about the meaning of the employment area on Region East Denmark’s website.

Starting salary for employees covered by collective agreements

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of base pay, centrally set allowances and pension in 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 strive daily to promote a healthy life by preventing and treating within a coherent health effort. As a hospital we unite psychiatry and somatics. Our goal is that patients and citizens experience good and safe high-quality pathways.

As an employee you will become 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 committed communities. Also across departments.

Midt- and West Zealand Hospital covers a catchment area of about 230,000 inhabitants. 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 education environment where we welcome about 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in further training programs each year.

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WORKPLACE

Midt- and West Zealand Hospital, Slagelse

QUICKNR.

055787

JOB TYPE

Full time

POSTED

5 October 2026

APPLICATION DEADLINE

20 October 2026

START DATE

1 November 2026