Occupational Therapist for new health and care positions in Halsnæs Municipality

Would you like to help shape the future of the close-to-home healthcare?

As a result of the Health Reform, health and care beds will transfer to regional responsibility and operation as of 1 January 2027. The health and care beds are aimed at citizens who need an intensive health professionals input such as rehabilitation, exercise, observation, treatment and care, but who do not require hospitalization in a hospital.

The assignment is anchored at North Zealand Hospital in a new organizational unit under the Department for Elderly and Multimorbidity and covers seven geographic locations in North Zealand. In Halsnæs, there will be 18 health and care beds, located at Søndergade 81A in Hundested.

Here we will gather strong health professionals and rehabilitative efforts around citizens with complex needs, and especially for the health and care beds in Halsnæs, we will build a completely new team of occupational and physical therapists. You therefore get a unique opportunity to help shape the development of a new regional offering and the establishment of a strong, team-based and interdisciplinary environment with a focus on the good and coherent citizen journey.

When the region first takes over responsibility for the upcoming health and care beds on 1 January 2027, you will start your employment in the Department of Elderly and Multimorbidity at Frederikssund Hospital on 1 December. Here you will receive a thorough introduction to patient pathways, and you will learn to use the Health Platform, which is the electronic medical record system that will be used on the health and care beds from January. From January your permanent workplace will be in Halsnæs.

About the position

As an occupational therapist you will have a central role in

• Planning and delivering targeted rehabilitation and recovery programs in close interprofessional collaboration.
• Ensuring coherent transitions between hospital, health and care beds, own home and municipal services.
• Contributing to competence development and professional sparring in an interprofessional environment.
• Actively contributing to the development of the new health and care beds.

We offer

• The opportunity to help build and develop a new and important service in Halsnæs.
• A strong interprofessional team collaboration with nurses, social and health care assistants, social and health workers, physiotherapists, doctors, assessors and other relevant partners.
• An employer with focus on rehabilitation, professional quality and citizen involvement.
• Good opportunities for competence development and clinical sparring.
• Visible and approachable leadership.

We are seeking an occupational therapist who

• Is a licensed occupational therapist.
• Has experience with rehabilitation of elderly people and citizens with complex health professional issues.
• Can translate rehabilitation into practice and contribute to citizens experiencing a coherent, meaningful and targeted process
• Has experience from municipality, hospital or rehabilitation unit.
• Thrives in an interprofessional environment and actively contributes to team collaboration with other professions.
• Is autonomous, initiativeminded and adaptable.
• Has good communication skills and can create safety and motivation for citizens and relatives.

Employment terms

The position is 32-37 hours per week with start on 1 December 2026.

Initially there will be no weekend and holiday work, but eventually there will need to be therapists present every day during daytime.

Salary and terms of employment are governed by the current collective agreement and the principles of local pay setting.

Further information

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact

Lisbet Lind, Chief Therapist at North Zealand Hospital

Tel.: 29216602

Email: [email protected]

Application deadline

19 October at 12:00. Interviews are expected to be held on 26 October.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Your salary and employment terms Authorized healthcare personnel with patient contact who have been trained in another EU/EEA country than Denmark must, when employed in the Zealand Region, meet the language requirements in Danish. *Authorized healthcare personnel with patient contact trained in another EU/EEA country must pass a Danish test (Danish education 3, corresponding to the 9th grade exit exam) or at least be able to pass the test no later than 1 year after employment, or have obtained equivalent Danish language proficiency in another way.

The Danish test must be passed with at least the following scores:

• spoken communication with a score of 10 • reading comprehension with a score of 7 • written expression with a score of 7

~ Application deadline: 19 October 2026 Location: North Zealand Hospital