Occupational therapist for the health and care facilities on Langeland

Do you want to help create strong rehabilitation pathways close to the citizen's daily life?

As an occupational therapist on the upcoming health and care placements on Langeland you will have an important role in citizens' rehabilitation pathways – with a particular focus on activity, function and mastery of everyday 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 take over the responsibility for the regional health and care placements on Langeland.

The placements are aimed at citizens in need of health professional interventions, treatment, care and rehabilitation for a period. The citizens primarily come from a hospital department, and the goal for most is that they can return home.

On Langeland, a service with 8 placements is established, where occupational and physiotherapists, nurses, social and health aides and assistants work closely together.

Our joint goal is to help the citizen return as best as possible to their own life with dignity, efficient processes and high professional standards. We believe rehabilitation is most successful when the citizen is an active participant, and when the professional disciplines are brought into play across fields.

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 the activities that make everyday 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 of the citizen's rehabilitation pathway.

Your tasks will include, among other things

• examine, assess and support the citizen's activity and functional ability, including ADL
• plan and implement occupational therapy interventions based on the citizen's goals
• assess cognitive challenges and initiate relevant interventions/training with significance for the citizen's everyday life
• assess the need for assistive devices and other compensatory solutions
• guide citizens and relatives in relevant occupational therapy interventions
• contribute to multidisciplinary assessments and joint plans for the citizen's progression

We imagine that you

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

Additionally we would like you to

• have an eye for the citizen's overall everyday life and the activities that are important for the individual
• can work independently while valuing close multidisciplinary collaboration
• can adapt your efforts to citizens with different functional abilities and needs
• work in a structured manner and be able to prioritize your tasks
• are eager to help build a new workplace and a shared 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 a key 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 aims to support a more closely connected and equitable health system and ensure professionally strong services 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 originally 37 hours per week. In time, working hours may also include day shifts on weekends.

The region is obligated to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of base salary, centrally fixed 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 : There will be interviews on an ongoing basis

Workplace

Health and care placements Langeland

Voldstien 5

5900 Rudkøbing

Want to know more?

You are welcome to contact

• Chief Nurse Julie Skov Jespersen, [email protected] , tel. 29173660
• Area Leader Marlene Bang Skjøth, [email protected] , tel. 21728277

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

Department: Citizen-Centered Health

Job title: Occupational Therapist

Working hours: Full-time

Workplace: Langeland

Application deadline: Oct. 21, 2026