Psychologist for Clinic for Eating Disorders

Are you a specialist psychologist / clinical psychologist with practical psychology training (PPU) and do you find working with adult patients with eating disorders interesting, then we hope you will apply for the position with us.

On a typical workday you will primarily meet good colleagues with high professional standards and engagement. You will have the opportunity to dive into a specialty that is completely unique, complex and very exciting. The work will include psychotherapeutic work (individual and group), assessments, supervision, and development of professional practice.

In our clinic we treat children, adolescents and adults with eating disorders, and we hope to find a new colleague for our adult team – who will help provide patients with eating disorders with the best possible treatment. We offer a 37-hour position from December 1.

We have a strong focus on onboarding new employees and will therefore provide you with thorough training and introduction.

A little about the Center for Eating Disorders

The Center for Eating Disorders consists of a clinic, day treatment, outreach team and U2 inpatient unit. We treat children, adolescents and adults with eating disorders from across the Region Zealand.

We are seeking a new colleague for our clinic.

The clinic provides outpatient work aimed at children, adolescents and adults with eating disorders and handles psychotherapeutic treatment courses; individually, in groups or family therapy.

The clinic specializes in the treatment of anorexia, bulimia and BED and is divided into several teams: children/adolescent team, adult team and BED team. This position is tied to the adult team. We work across disciplines, including doctors, psychologists, nurses, dietitians, social workers and secretaries.

The treatment approach is both individual and group-based for patients with anorexia, bulimia and BED. We work from a cognitive and mentalization-based perspective. We offer psychoeducation in groups to patients and relatives. In addition, supervision and education of collaborators are also provided.

Further information about the clinic can be found here .

Duties

• Conduct pre-consultations, contribute to assessment, treatment plans and diagnostic assessments
• Conduct clinical psychopathological assessments and course planning
• Perform psychotherapeutic work, individually and in groups
• Conduct psychological consultations and treatment
• Assess comorbidity
• Supervise own and other professional groups
• Contribute to the clinical development, take responsibility for development tasks

We offer

• Thorough introduction
• Being part of an engaged and professionally highly qualified treatment team
• A professionally challenging work environment with skilled and fun colleagues
• Being part of a competent multidisciplinary collaboration
• Great influence on planning and content of work tasks
• A strong learning and development-oriented environment
• We offer the possibility of authorization
• Professional affiliation with psychologists and specialist psychologists throughout the Region Zealand Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Your competencies

• You are educated as a specialist psychologist or clinical psychologist with practical psychology training.
• You can apply your psychology training to the various tasks.
• You are development-oriented both mono- and cross-disciplinary.
• You preferably have experience with mentalization-based therapy or cognitive therapy.
• You are process- and results-oriented with regard to the tasks.
• You have a psychological understanding of the complexity in treating patients with eating disorders.
• You have organizational insight and understanding.

Salary and employment conditions

Salary according to the current collective agreement.

The employment is conditional on a satisfactory child and criminal background check being available prior to start date.

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry covers the entire Region Zealand. The region is home to about 185,000 children and adolescents. The department consists of nine clinical wards, each with independent daily management that all report to the department management. There are about 300 employees. The department management and the management secretariat are located in Roskilde.

Further information

You are very welcome to contact the ward management with Chief Physician Dasirije Ljoki, [email protected] and Chief Nurse Ninna Lundsgaard, [email protected], tel. 58 53 80 80.

Application

Applications with documentation of education and previous employment, as well as documentation of certifications in Health Platform, must accompany the application.

Application deadline: 9 November 2026

Employment interviews: 11 November 2026

The employment is conditional on receiving a satisfactory child background check and on receiving a satisfactory criminal record check for public use

Area of employment

Region Zealand and Region Capital, Copenhagen will become Region Østdanmark on 1 January 2027 as a result of the health reform. Your area of employment will be Region Østdanmark with all related organizational units.

Read more about the meaning of the area of employment on the Region Østdanmark website.

Starting salary for those under a collective agreement

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of base salary, centrally set allowances and pension in the relevant collective agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See the starting salary on the region's website

About Mid and West Zealand Hospital

At Mid and West Zealand Hospital we work every day to promote healthy living by preventing and treating in a coherent health effort. As a hospital we unite psychiatry and somatics. Our goal is for patients and citizens to experience good and safe pathways of high quality.

As an employee you will become part of an innovative, professionally and organizationally robust hospital where we make a difference for the people who need us. Learning and development are part of daily life and take place in professionally committed communities, also across departments.

Mid and West Zealand Hospital serves an area of about 230,000 inhabitants. We have 766 beds and about 5,000 employees across 20 departments, including 16 somatic and psychiatric specialties.

We offer a solid research environment with 13 professors and a strong professional education environment, where we annually welcome about 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in further education programs.