Occupational Therapist for Health and Care Placements on Bornholm – would you like to make a difference in a citizen's daily life?

Would you like to be part of a strong interdisciplinary community where your professional engagement ensures that our citizens return well to everyday life? We are looking for an occupational therapist for a permanent full-time position of 37 hours per week starting 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Your primary tasks will be rehabilitation and reconditioning at the health and care units at the Rehabilitation Center Sønderbo. The tasks are varied, challenging and meaningful. You will enter an environment characterized by high professionalism, close sparring and an infectious good atmosphere, where we lift together.

What do we offer you?

• A meaningful everyday life: You will help ensure a holistic, rehabilitative effort via rehabilitation, supervision, advice and guidance.
• Varied tasks: You will work with citizens with all somatic diagnoses and age groups, with primary focus on older citizens.
• Strong professional development: We offer thorough onboarding and introduction, you have good opportunities to specialize and further develop your competencies.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration: You will have close collaboration and daily sparring with the physiotherapist and the rest of the health staff.
• Lovely surroundings: Opportunity to live and work close to nature on a fantastic island.

Our expectations of you are that you

• Are a trained occupational therapist.
• Work independently, keep an overview in a changing day-to-day and take responsibility.
• Naturally incorporate everyday activities as a central part of the citizen’s rehabilitation.
• Are motivated by close interdisciplinary collaboration and actively contribute to the common sparring and interdisciplinary planning of the programs.
• Communicate fluently in Danish, both in writing and speaking.

Employment terms

The working hours are 37 hours, occurring in daytime.

Salary and employment terms follow the collective agreement for Non-Executive Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Midwives.

Authorized health personnel with patient contact who do not have a Danish education must, upon employment in the Capital Region of Denmark, meet the Danish language competence requirement* in Danish in another way.

Sønderbo is a smoke-free workplace.

Application deadline

Applications must be received no later than Monday 9 November 2026.

Questions?

Further information can be obtained by contacting Principal Occupational Therapist Camilla Schmeltzer at email: [email protected] , tel. 38 67 18 01.

Curious about the job and life on the island

You can meet some of our staff here and read more about our strategy, characteristics and life on the island: https://www.bornholmshospital.dk/job-og-uddannelse/Sider/default.aspx

Life on Bornholm: Bornholm is special in many ways. We have waterfalls, cliffs, the roar of the sea and the finest sand. All within a short distance. We enjoy the island’s many high-quality local produce. The cultural and recreational life is marked by music and food festivals, local sea kayak and winter bathing clubs are growing, and we are enriched with impressive, experience-rich walking and cycling routes.

Never further away than is affordable to go outdoors and to combine everyday life with leisure, friends and well-being. And all this while Copenhagen and access to the big city are only a short journey away.

If you are not already familiar with Bornholm, you can get good advice by visiting the page www.næstestopbornholm.dk

Read about Bornholm on the Facebook page “Next Stop Bornholm”, www.brk.dk or www.bornholm.info

*Authorized health personnel with patient contact who do not have a Danish education must, upon employment in the Capital Region of Denmark, have passed a Danish test (Danish Education 3, equivalent to the 9th grade final exam) or at least be able to pass the test no later than 1 year after employment, or have achieved equivalent Danish language competencies in another way.