Psychologist sought for Multidisciplinary Pain Center Næstved, 37 hours per week.

We are seeking a psychologist with professional qualification (clinical psychologist) for our multidisciplinary team and offer an exciting specialty where the relationship and interdisciplinary collaboration are in focus with a view to ensuring coherent and highly qualified patient pathways.

We work on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., and offer the possibility of some home-working days and flexible hours.

In the Multidisciplinary Pain Center we work with pain treatment for people with chronic, complex non-mmalignant pain.

Our aim is to create respectful relationships in meeting patients and among staff - integrity and trust are the foundation of our work.

In the Multidisciplinary Pain Center we are a team consisting of nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, social worker and secretaries. Together we create coherent patient pathways and offer multidisciplinary treatment efforts of high quality targeted at the individual patient.

We work from the bio-psycho-social model, with a high degree of non-pharmacological treatment options.

Our consultations with patients take place partly in person, but also virtually via video calls and via telephone calls.

We are seeking a clinical psychologist and a new colleague who, in addition to being professionally engaged, also demonstrates an appreciative approach and a willingness to collaborate cross-disciplinarily. We would like you as a psychologist to have experience working with people who have chronic disorders, including preferably familiarity with working with chronic pain patients.

The psychologist's tasks include among other things

• Evaluative conversations with patients to identify psychological issues related to the chronic pain condition and to assess whether the patient could profit from a psychology program in the Pain Center.
• Counseling with patients focusing on, among other things, psychoeducation, management of chronic pain, resources and redirection.
• Identify patients in need of psychiatric assessment, e.g. severe depression, or other signs of another form of psychopathology, e.g. personality disorder or PTSD, which currently obstructs treatment in the Pain Center. In such cases possibly prepare referrals to psychiatry, in cooperation with the treating physician.
• Care of education/facilitation at our patient education, including psychoeducation about the emotional and cognitive consequences of chronic pain, coping with these, working with acceptance, more balanced resource management and facilitation of patients' mutual information exchange.
• Participation in cross-sector conferences with psychiatry and the Clinic for sequelae, as well as with municipal caseworkers in connection with patients’ job-clearing processes.
• Possibly preparing statements to the municipality regarding patients in municipal programs that can complement status declarations from the treating physician, where deemed relevant.

Personal and professional competencies

• Preferably experience with psychological pain treatment in a multidisciplinary team.
• Broad experience with the most commonly used psychotherapeutic directions and methods in relation to pain treatment.
• Preferably experience with health education, guidance and teaching.
• Ability to communicate and convey in a mature, constructive and understandable manner.
• Knowledge of the Health Platform, but this is not a requirement.
• Active and engaged in humane relationships.
• Good collaboration skills, an appreciative approach and willingness to engage in broad multidisciplinary collaboration
• Methodically flexible and able to adapt the intervention to the individual patient
• Demonstrate engagement and flexibility in task solving with the patient as the focal point.
• Will and ability for professional and personal development.

General about Mid and West Zealand Hospital, Anesthesiology Department

The Multidisciplinary Pain Center is part of the Anesthesiology Department

We are a large, exciting department with about 400 staff spread across 2 sites. The daily life is characterized by good humor in an informal environment, where a number of skilled and professionally ambitious employees and leaders strive every day to contribute to good and satisfactory patient pathways.

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

If you have any further questions, you are very welcome to contact Chief Nurse Anne Brix at tel. 93577492

The application deadline is 01 November 2026 and interviews are expected to be held on 09 November 2026 in the time range 08:00-13:00.

Area of employment

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

Read more about the meaning of the area of employment on Region East Denmark's website.

Starting salary for employees under the collective agreement

The region is obliged to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be provided with the base salary, centrally set allowances and pension under the relevant collective agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the salary 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 cohesive 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 become part of an innovative, professionally and organizationally robust hospital, where we make a difference for people who need us. Learning and development are part of everyday life and occur in professionally committed communities. Also across departments.

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

We offer a solid research environment with 13 professors and a strong professional educational environment, where we each year welcome approximately 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in further training programs.