Occupational Therapist for Ward 5, Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital

A permanent position as an occupational therapist at Hospitalsenhed Midt, Ward 5, Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital is available for filling from January 1, 2027. The position is initially 37 hours per week.

Is it you we are looking for?

• You have professional ambitions and a desire to specialize in neurorehabilitation.
• You have respect for others' professionalism and a desire for interdisciplinary collaboration.
• You want to contribute to a good working environment.
• You thrive in a dynamic workplace where adjustments and developments in relation to the patient caseload are ongoing, and where research and development are an integrated part of the work.

If you can relate to these four statements, you may be our new colleague at Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital.

As an occupational therapist employed in Ward 5, you will get

• An exciting and challenging job with the possibility of a varied workday that you can influence.
• A department with a high level of mono- and multidisciplinary practice. You will have about 50 engaged and competent colleagues who are passionate about neurorehabilitation. Of these, 8 are occupational therapists.
• Room to continually reflect on your own practice, which contributes to strengthening the professional development of the department.
• A thorough introduction during the first 6 months.
• A structured mono-disciplinary as well as multidisciplinary introduction. As a new employee you will be assigned a mentor from your own professional group, as well as a multidisciplinary mentor.

Subspecialty for Early Neurorehabilitation

Subspecialty for Early Neurorehabilitation accepts patients immediately after the acute brain injury has stabilized. The patients are diagnosed, monitored and treated while early neurorehabilitation is initiated. In addition to early neurorehabilitation we focus on patients who require highly specialized neurorehabilitation focusing on cognitive and sensorimotor issues. Therefore the ward is versatile and offers a broad professional scope.

We work in multidisciplinary teams around the individual patient. The primary team consists of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, social and health care assistants and the treating physician. The team is supplemented by speech therapists, neuropsychologists, social workers and dietitians.

In addition to work in the clinic here, occupational therapists and physiotherapists cover daily patient treatment on the neurointensive rehabilitation ward in Silkeborg – NR. They therefore have shifts at both our clinic and in Silkeborg. You should see yourself as part of this task solution – with less on-call duty, but with shared responsibility for the neurorehabilitation effort.

Essential occupational therapy tasks at the Clinic for Early Neurorehabilitation always take their starting point in an activity-based focus - ADL training, development of neuro-pedagogical strategies, assessment and treatment of communication difficulties and not least maintaining focus on motivating activity and participation.

A core task is dysphagia assessment and treatment aimed at establishing a safe eating and swallowing function. In many cases the patients here are admitted with cuffed tracheal tubes. As an occupational therapist you will, after training, be responsible, among other things, for the development of tube plans. Some of our patients have impaired consciousness, where an occupational therapy intervention focuses on establishing early contact.

The patient group may encompass complex physical and/or cognitive problems and therefore often requires a high degree of creativity in applying your occupational therapy approach to the patient's neurorehabilitation.

Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital

Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital is the Western Danish Center for highly specialized neurorehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury. This means that we possess the highest expertise in neurorehabilitation and receive severely brain-injured patients from all of Western Denmark, i.e., Jutland and Funen.

Neurorehabilitation is organized into four areas: subspecialty for early neurorehabilitation, subspecialty for mental functional impairments, subspecialty for sensorimotor functional impairments and subspecialty for children and young people. For all subspecialties clinics with outpatient services are attached.

Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital has 118 beds distributed across 3 campuses, Hammel, Lemvig and Skive, and treats about 700 patients annually. There are about 520 staff, of which 75 are physiotherapists and 75 occupational therapists.

About Hospitalsenhed Midt

Hospitalsenhed Midt includes Viborg, Silkeborg, Hammel Neurocenter and Skive Regional Hospitals and has about 4,400 employees and a budget of DKK 2.4 billion annually.

The four regional hospitals together form a hospital unit with a strong professional profile and, by virtue of the complexity and breadth of the specialties, one of the broadest specialised hospital units in Jutland.

See more about Hospitalsenhed Midt at www.hospitalsenhedmidt.dk

Further information

Further information can be obtained by contacting

Senior therapist Tina Hogan at tel. 78 41 93 00/26 24 96 66

Your application

Your application, attached with copies of diploma and authorization ID, must be sent electronically and be received by us electronically 19 November 2026

Interviews are expected to take place on 23 November 2026

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement in the field.

In reference to the “Act on obtaining a child certificate in connection with the employment of staff etc., a child certificate will be obtained in connection with any employment.

Employment is with Region Midtjylland with service currently at Hospitalsenhed Midt, Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital.

Interested applicants, regardless of personal background, are encouraged to apply for the position.

The position is, in principle, a full-time position.

As Region Midtjylland continually implements savings and reorganizations, employees in redeployment who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Midtjylland is, in accordance with the EU pay transparency directive, which came into effect on June 7, 2026, obliged to inform you of starting salary or a salary range for a position before you are offered employment.

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