Psychologist, Synscenter Refsnæs

Psychologist

Do you want to make a difference for children and young people with severe visual impairment, their parents and for professionals working with the target group? Are you motivated by strong professional communities where there is room to think big and great flexibility? Do you want to have the best opportunities for professional development and work closely with some of Denmark's most skilled and dedicated specialists? Then you should apply for the vacant position as psychologist at Synscenter Refsnæs.

Synscenter Refsnæs is the national specialist educational resource and knowledge center for children and youth with visual impairment. Synscenter Refsnæs works knowledge-based and interdisciplinary with development, learning, well-being and citizenship for the target group in a nationwide collaboration. The center has a nationwide function and offers a wide range of interdisciplinary specialist advice, assessment, courses, material production and dissemination, knowledge work as well as tariffed services within teaching, education and residential care.

Synscenter Refsnæs provides in collaboration with municipal vision consultants a highly specialized offering to children and young people with severe visual impairment, their families and professionals around the child / the young person. We supplement and support the municipalities' and local vision consultants' work with inclusion and rehabilitation. We use ICF and the "De Udvidede Læringsmål" (DUL) as a framework. We collaborate in a resource-oriented way with the families and local professionals we advise.

We are seeking a psychologist for a cross-professional effort for children and young people who have severe visual impairment, including blindness. The position is organizationally placed in Special Advisory. Here, vision consultants work with a background in special education and teaching, psychologists, educational-psychological consultants, occupational and physiotherapists, science consultants and graphic designers.

Special Advisory is organized into three teams; Team Toddlers, Team School Children and Youth and Material Team. This position is organizationally placed in Special Advisory's Team School Children and Youth, which primarily handles tasks for children and youths in the target group aged 6-17 years. In Special Advisory there is close cross-disciplinary cooperation across the three teams. There is good flexibility in planning one's own work.

Synscenter Refsnæs is the country;s VISO provider in the field of child vision. As a psychologist in Special Advisory you will help with referral, assessment, specialist advice and supervision in collaboration with the other professional groups within Special Advisory. In addition to joining Special Advisory's school team, you will also join a professionally strong psychology group consisting of a total of three psychologists and an educational-psychological consultant. You will also be part of a national network and a Nordic network where experiences are exchanged for the benefit of the target group.

We expect you to have experience with evaluation and ideally experience with or knowledge of the specialized social / educational area as well as experience with assessment and evaluation of functioning level, developmental age and socio-emotional skills. We also expect that you have experience with psychological testing, including for example Bayley, Wechsler scales of intelligence (WPPSI-IV, WISC-V, WAIS-IV) as well as perhaps D-KEFS and TOMAL2.

You will work closely with Synscenter Refsnæs various users and stakeholders, including municipalities/communication centers and international partners. We therefore expect you to work independently and in a structured way, to have flair for verbal and written communication and counseling and to have pronounced collaboration skills.

The task is carried out partly at Synscenter Refsnæs and partly locally in the child;s local area across the country. The center has about 120 employees and is located in a very scenic area by Kalundborg Fjord.

You can read the detailed job and person profile here (pdf). You are very welcome to call the department head Mads Røn at tel. 24 41 89 06 if you want to hear more about the position.

You are employed in accordance with the current agreement with Danish Regions with the possibility of negotiating individual supplements depending on qualifications. The Region of Zealand and the Region of the Capital will become Region Eastern Denmark on January 1, 2027 as a result of the health reform. Your employment area will be Region Eastern Denmark with all associated organizational units. Read more about the meaning of the employment area on Region Eastern Denmark;s website.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position. You will be told the base salary, centrally set allowances and pension in 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.

The application deadline is Sunday 22 November 2026. The employment is conditional on receiving a satisfactory child care check and a satisfactory criminal record check for public use.

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