Occupational Therapist for the health and care facilities in Svendborg

Occupational therapist for the health and care placements in Svendborg Do you want to help create strong rehabilitation pathways close to the citizen's daily life?

As an occupational therapist at the upcoming health and care placements in Svendborg, you will play an important role in citizens' rehabilitation journeys – with a particular focus on activity, function and mastering daily life.

At the same time, you will have the opportunity to help shape a new regional offering in Citizen-Centered Health.

About the health and care placements

From January 1, 2027, Citizen-Centered Health at Odense University Hospital will assume responsibility for the regional health and care placements in Svendborg.

The placements are aimed at citizens with a need for health care interventions, treatment, nursing and rehabilitation for a period. Citizens primarily come from a hospital department, and the goal for most is that they can return to their own home.

In Svendborg, an offer with 16 placements is being established with capacity increase toward 24 placements, where occupational and physical therapists, nurses, social and health assistants and aides work closely together.

Our common goal is to help the citizen back to their own life with dignity, efficient pathways and high professional standards. We believe rehabilitation succeeds best when the citizen is an active participant, and when expert knowledge is used across disciplines.

Your role as an occupational therapist

As an occupational therapist you will have a particular focus on how the citizen can regain or maintain the ability to perform activities that make daily life function.

You will be an active part of the multidisciplinary team and contribute with your occupational therapy expertise to the overall assessment, planning and follow-up on the citizen's rehabilitation journey.

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We imagine that you

Are a licensed occupational therapist and thrive in working broadly with rehabilitation and complex citizen pathways.

In addition, we would like you to

• have an eye for the citizen's overall daily life and the activities that are important to the individual
• can work independently while valuing close multidisciplinary collaboration
• can adapt your interventions to citizens with different functional abilities and needs
• work in a structured way and can prioritise your tasks
• have a desire to help build a new workplace and a common professional culture.

Experience with rehabilitation, dysphagia, geriatrics, cognition or complex citizen pathways is an advantage but not a requirement.

With us you get

• a meaningful daily life with varied and complex citizen pathways
• opportunity for professional development and sparring
• close multidisciplinary collaboration, where your expertise is an important part of the overall effort
• opportunity to influence the occupational therapy approach
• a workplace focused on quality, coherence and the citizen's needs.

About Citizen-Centered Health

Citizen-Centered Health is a new department at OUH, established as part of the health reform.

The department should support a more close, coherent and equal health service and ensure professionally strong offers to citizens who need health services closer to their daily life.

From January 1, 2027, Citizen-Centered Health will among other things take responsibility for health and care placements and regional emergency nursing.

Employment terms

The position is initially 37 hours per week. In due course, working hours may also include day shifts on weekends.

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 collective agreement for occupational therapists/physiotherapists and midwives – collective agreement 33.21.1.

In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See starting salary for positions in Region Southern Denmark

Start date: As soon as possible

Application deadline: October 21, 2026

Interviews: Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis

Workplace

Health and care placements Svendborg

Aldersro 2, Building 8

5700 Svendborg

Want to know more?

You are welcome to contact

• Chief Nurse Julie Skov Jespersen, [email protected] , phone 29 17 36 60
• Area Manager Marlene Bang Skjøth, [email protected] , phone 21728277

We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to Citizen-Centered Health.