Physiotherapist for the 24-hour department on the first floor in Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen

Are you passionate about neurorehabilitation, or/and do you have special professional competencies within the field?

Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen expands its offerings to citizens with acquired brain injury, and we therefore need more qualified personnel. You now have the chance to become part of the team at a center in development, and here to help strengthen multidisciplinary and coherent rehabilitation processes for the benefit of the individual citizen.

In Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen we work purposefully to improve the quality of life for citizens with acquired brain injury and we prioritise the active involvement of citizens and their relatives.

Your tasks will among other things be to

• create results together with the citizen and relatives through involvement and evidence-based practice
• develop mono- and multidisciplinary goals and plans together with the citizen and relatives based on their rehabilitation needs
• participate in multidisciplinary meetings and conferences
• handle both individual training pathways and group training
• collaborate across the municipality with brain injury coordinators and assessors
• participate in development and implementation of initiatives at the center
• work preventively, health-promoting and rehabilitative.

We expect that you

• have an interest in neurology
• have the rehabilitative aspect in all approaches in the citizen's course
• can engage in multidisciplinary cooperation, and at the same time can work independently to perform specific movement analyses and training
• are able to reflect on and document your own practice
• have strong collaboration skills and an appreciative approach to your colleagues, and that you contribute to maintaining a good working environment.

We offer

• a workplace with many new initiatives aimed at creating the best possible offerings for citizens and relatives
• an inspiring and broad professional community across the center's departments, in the administration and with external partners
• a work environment with focus on knowledge sharing, well-being, professional sparring and multidisciplinary collaboration, where we emphasize independence, responsibility, respect and collegial camaraderie.

About the department

You will, as our new colleague, become part of the Department Overnight Ward 1st floor.

About Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen

Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen is for citizens who have sustained an acquired brain injury or another neurological disorder and need advanced level rehabilitation or specialized level rehabilitation. We focus on the active involvement of citizens and relatives in the process and on the multidisciplinary effort aimed at rehabilitating physical, cognitive, linguistic and social functions. The citizens are always at the center of their own pathway, so they maintain hope and security on the way to a new life situation together with their relatives.

Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen prioritizes a high professional educational environment and works to promote development and research in rehabilitation after an acquired brain injury together with relevant research and educational institutions. This helps make the center a nationally leading municipal rehabilitation offering in the brain injury area.

We are

• about 200 staff and leaders with various multidisciplinary backgrounds
• part of the Health and Care Administration of the City of Copenhagen
• a smoke-free workplace.

In connection with the Health reform, from 2027 we will be one of three centers in the Eastern Region that will run the specialized rehabilitation for the region.

Do you want to know more about Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen?

You can read more about Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen here and about services for citizens with acquired brain injury in the City of Copenhagen here .

Salary and employment terms

The place of employment is Neurorehabilitation – Copenhagen at Strandvejen 119 in Hellerup. The position is a full-time post with start date 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible. Salary and terms of employment according to the applicable collective agreement and within the framework of local pay formation. We will obtain a criminal record certificate and references in connection with the employment. In the night wards there is currently a Saturday shift every 5th week and a late shift once a week.

The working hours for late shifts are 11:00-19:00. Due to new quality standards from the Danish Medicines Agency for health and care places, from 1 January 2027 a therapist will also have to be part of the staffing on Sundays and public holidays. The extent of Sunday shifts is expected to be one per five-week rotation.

If you have previously been employed by the City of Copenhagen, there is also

If you are considered for a position in a municipal unit, we will check whether you have been dismissed or terminated from the municipality within the last three years and share relevant information with the hiring manager. It may also include information about criminal activity that led to termination or dismissal from the City of Copenhagen, information about substance abuse such as a positive alcohol test, or information about medical history that could have a significant impact on a new employment in the municipality. Read more about reference checks here .

More information

If you have any questions about the position, you are very welcome to contact department head Sys Riffensdal at 24 21 10 57.

Along with your application, please attach your CV and proof of education.

Apply via the link no later than Thursday 12 November 2026

We expect to hold employment interviews in week 47.

About the Health and Care Administration

Our everyday life is about people. See more about our everyday life at www.vores-hverdag.kk.dk .