Neuropsychologist with an interest in children and adolescents wanted

Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury – Bodil Eskesen Center (BEC)

Since 2025 we have been in full swing building our outpatient clinic for children and adolescents with acquired brain injury. It is with great pleasure that we now can advertise yet another position and apply for a new neuropsychologist colleague. If you are a neuropsychologist with an interest in children and adolescents, then you are the one we are seeking.

The Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury in our lovely Bodil Eskesen Center is an exciting workplace in rapid development, with many diverse tasks for neuropsychologists. You will become part of a well-functioning, competent and cozy team consisting of 9 neuropsychologists, 4 speech and language therapists, 3 social workers and 1 crisis psychologist who solve tasks at the department for spinal cord injuries, the department for brain injuries and in our brain injury outpatient clinics.

You will primarily be attached to our newly established outpatient for children and adolescents with acquired brain injury as well as the Department for Brain Injuries (highly specialized/regional neurorehabilitation during admission). In addition, you will be part of an exciting and developing multidisciplinary environment consisting of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, medical secretaries and many more.

In the child/adolescent outpatient you as a neuropsychologist will be responsible for thorough neuropsychological examination of children and adolescents with acquired brain injury and subsequent reporting, formulation of a rehabilitation plan and recommendations for further intervention. There may be follow-up on previously admitted patients as well as a back-to-basics outpatient for pediatric patients affected by brain injury.

There may also be children affected by brain injury in the very early years, where cognitive and energy-related follow-on effects only become apparent many years later as the brain develops and the child faces increased demands from their surroundings. The child/adolescent outpatient is a new function in the department and you will help develop and put your own mark on our offering.

In the inpatient ward we receive patients with severe acquired brain injuries for early hospital-based rehabilitation. We have 44 beds, of which there is room for up to 4 pediatric patients. With this new position we would like 3-4 neuropsychologists to be able to share the pediatric/adolescent function and thus have opportunities for ongoing sparring and expansion of the function. Initially there will primarily be a need to cover the pediatric/adolescent function but in time there will also be more tasks with adult inpatients and their relatives (including possibly also child relatives).

In the early phase of neurorehabilitation the neuropsychologist on the inpatient ward plays a special role both in assessing the patient and contributing with specialist knowledge about cognition in the multidisciplinary team as well as the complex biopsychosocial understanding and approach to the patient. In the inpatient ward the neuropsychologists offer assessment of rehabilitation needs, neurorehabilitative intervention as well as psychoeducational and supportive conversations for relatives.

We offer you

• An exciting and versatile neuropsychologist position with a wide range of tasks including outpatient assessment, cognitive rehabilitation, relative counseling etc.
• To work neuropsychologically with children and adolescents, and at times adults.
• Inviting modern facilities for patients, relatives and staff in the newly built Bodil Eskesen Center.
• A workplace with many new initiatives aimed at creating the best possible treatment, assessment and rehabilitation for our patients and their relatives.
• Ongoing supervision and course participation with the aim of achieving authorization and/or specialist training in clinical neuropsychology or clinical child neuropsychology (if you do not already have it).

You will become part of

• A team consisting of nine neuropsychologists (including you), three social workers, four speech and language therapists and a crisis psychologist.
• A newly started pediatric and adolescent outpatient, which you will have the opportunity to develop and shape.
• A hospital ward where we work purposefully and interdisciplinary with rehabilitation of patients with severe acquired brain injury in the early phases.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with physiotherapists and occupational therapists, neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists, doctors, nurses, social workers, etc.
• A work environment with focus on knowledge sharing, well-being, professional sparring and interdisciplinary collaboration and where independence, responsibility, respect and collegial camaraderie are emphasized.
• A neuro-house in development with many new projects and initiatives in the coming years.

Our expectations of you

You have a master's degree in psychology with experience in neuropsychology and possibly the pediatric field. Ideally authorized, very preferably a specialist in child- or adult neuropsychology or in the process of obtaining this.

We imagine that you are a neuropsychologist with previous experience from neurorehabilitation and/or neurology but with a desire to develop competencies as a pediatric neuropsychologist, including using test batteries for children (WISC, WPPSI, Bayley etc.).

We expect that you can (or quickly will be able to) conduct neuropsychological assessments both outpatient and bedside, documentation and can contribute to the neuropsychological development of the pediatric/adolescent function. In addition we seek individuals with great engagement, presence, empathy, collaboration skills and good humor.

Further information

Contact lead neuropsychologist Nadia Falcon Bærnthsen at telephone 22361384 or neuropsychologist Kathrine Søndergaard Christensen if you want to hear more.

Employment terms

Salary and employment terms according to applicable collective agreement 33.01.1 and rules for obtaining a child’s certificate.

The position is intended to be filled on January 1, 2027. Application deadline is Wednesday 25 November 2026 at 12:00. Interviews are expected to be held in week 45.

The position is a permanent full-time appointment.