Occupational therapist for hand therapy - temporary position

Occupational Therapist Vacancy

Slagelse Hospital

Are you eager to become part of a professionally strong team? Then this position might be for you.

As we have received grant funds, the Occupational Therapy department at Slagelse Hospital is seeking a temporary 37-hour/week occupational therapist as soon as possible until 31/12/2026, with the possibility of extension.

The application deadline is as soon as possible and interviews will be held on an ongoing basis.

Your new colleagues

You will meet 14 dedicated occupational therapists – including an senior occupational therapist, 3 therapists with special responsibilities, and a clinical instructor. In addition, one medical secretary.

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

In a busy day it is important that you are ready to adapt and can keep overview – even when today’s bookings must be changed at short notice. You will work precisely and efficiently in your documentation and are motivated to work on further developing the specialty.

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

Your primary tasks will be

• Assessment of the extent of the injury and the training potential
• Rehabilitation of the lost functions
• Equipment trials
• Assessment of the need for rehabilitation after discharge from hospital
• Provision of training programs

We are working, among other things, to develop

• Competence profiles for all employees
• The good patient pathway
• Skill stations as a competence development for all staff

To succeed in the position you are expected to

• Be a professional and clinically skilled occupational therapist
• Have interest or experience in working with hand surgery
• Be keen to work with acute patients
• Contribute to a good team spirit 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 respect for one another and helpfulness across occupational therapy
• Engaged and professionally skilled colleagues
• Professional sparring with colleagues
• Professional development
• A high degree of cross-disciplinary collaboration, especially with hand surgeons
• Great independence in task-solving
• Opportunity to share experience with occupational therapy students from ABSALON in Næstved

Your working hours are from 08:00 to 15:00, and one day per week until 17:00. 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 find it exciting and developing to work with new surgical procedures and training methods such as early mobilization, joint mobilization, acupuncture, GMI and ultrasound scanning. 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 great influence on planning – just as good well-being and humor are in focus every day.”

Your new workplace

Occupational Therapy at Slagelse Hospital is part of the department: Medicine 3 Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Central and West Zealand Hospital – and works continuously with improvements and quality every day.

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Would you like to know more?

Job description and further information about the position can be obtained by contacting Senior Occupational Therapist Trine Nielsen at telephone +45 51 58 10 92 or Specialised Chief Occupational Therapist Tine Drejer Christensen at telephone +45 58 55 96 26.

Would you like to be our new colleague?

Submit your application with your exam certificate and other relevant documents as soon as possible.

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 significance of the employment area on Region Østdanmark’s website.

Starting salary for employees under collective agreement

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of base salary, centrally fixed 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 Vestsjællands Hospital

At Midt- and Vestsjællands 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 that patients and citizens experience good and safe pathways of high quality.

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, including across departments.

Midt- and Vestsjællands Hospital covers a catchment of about 230,000 citizens. We have 766 beds and around 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 welcome about 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in further education programs each year.