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 vacant for filling from January 1, 2027. The position is essentially 37 hours.

Is it you we are looking for?

• You have professional ambitions and a desire to specialize in neurorehabilitation.
• You have respect for other professional disciplines and a desire for interdisciplinary collaboration.
• You wish to contribute to a good working environment.
• You thrive in a dynamic workplace where adjustments and development to the patient task are ongoing, and where research and development are an integrated part of the task solution.

If you recognize these 4 statements, you may be our new colleague at Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital.

As an occupational therapist employed in Ward 5 you will

• Have an exciting and challenging job with the opportunity for a varied workday that you can influence.
• Be part of a ward with a high mono- and cross-disciplinary level. You will have about 50 engaged and competent colleagues who are passionate about neurorehabilitation. Of these, 8 are occupational therapists.
• Have room to continuously reflect on your own practice, which contributes to strengthening the professional development on the ward.
• Receive a thorough introduction during the first 6 months.
• Receive a structured mono-disciplinary as well as cross-disciplinary introduction. As a new employee you will be assigned a mentor from your own profession, as well as a cross-disciplinary mentor.

Subspecialty in Early Neurorehabilitation

The Subspecialty in Early Neurorehabilitation accepts patients immediately after the acute brain injury has stabilized. 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 with a focus on cognitive and sensorimotor issues. Therefore, the ward is varied and offers a broad professional scope.

We work in interdisciplinary teams around each 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-language pathologists, neuropsychologists, social workers, and dietitians.

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

Significant occupational therapy tasks at the Early Neurorehabilitation Clinic take as a starting point an activity-based focus - ADL training, development of neuropedagogical strategies, identification and treatment of communication difficulties and not least maintaining a focus on motivating activity and participation.

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

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

Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital

Hammel Neurocenter Regional Hospital is the Western Denmark Center for highly specialized neurorehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury. This means that we possess the highest expertise within neurorehabilitation and receive severely brain-injured patients from across 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 there are associated clinics with outpatient activities.

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

About Hospitalsenhed Midt

Hospitalsenhed Midt comprises the Regional Hospitals in Viborg, Silkeborg, Hammel Neurocenter and Skive 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, due to the complexity and breadth of the specializations, one of the most broadly specialized hospital units in Jutland.

See more about Hospitalsenhed Midt at www.hospitalsenhedmidt.dk

Further information

Further information can be obtained by contacting

Head Therapist Tina Hogan at tel. 78 41 93 00/26 24 96 66

Your application

Your application, attached with copies of degree certificates and authorization ID, must be submitted electronically and be received by us electronically November 19, 2026

Interviews are expected to take place November 23, 2026

Salary and terms of employment

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

With reference to the “Act on the retrieval of criminal records in connection with the employment of staff, etc., a criminal record check will be obtained in connection with potential employment.

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

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

The position is essentially a full-time position.

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

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

Here you can find Region Midtjylland’s salary catalog for most occupations and positions found in Region Midtjylland: Transparency before employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk

Department: Neurocenter Ward 5 - RHN

Application deadline: 19 November 2026

Location: Voldbyvej 15, 8450, Hammel