Skilled Occupational Therapist for Educational-Psychological Counseling

Do you want to contribute to strengthening children's well-being through play and regulation? Then you can be our new pediatric occupational therapist!

You will be part of PPR's therapy team with three occupational therapists and two physiotherapists. We work outreach with children from 0 to 18 years in homes, day care and schools. You will have the freedom to plan your day and a strong team to brainstorm with.

With us you will have an independent and varied daily life in homes, day care and schools. You assess and evaluate the child's regulation and participation opportunities in the child’s immediate surroundings. You are curious to look behind the child’s behavior and you recognize that the relationship is central to the child’s development. The tasks also include examining the child’s sensory-motor, fine motor and oral motor development. We guide on sensory and emotional perspectives on feeding challenges in babies and children in close collaboration with the family.

A central part of the position is that we use play and play groups as part of our method to support the child’s regulation and participation in everyday meaningful activities. We also use play and play groups as a method to provide practice-oriented advice to our interdisciplinary partners.

You will work under the Health Act, the Daycare Act, the Children’s Act and the Danish School Act. It requires that you can switch between training, advising and consultative sparring. You make your occupational therapy knowledge applicable to parents, educators, teachers and interdisciplinary colleagues through consultative sparring. It requires that you can put your own professional knowledge into play in an interdisciplinary context. The everyday life contains many tasks, meetings and shifts.

Therefore you must be able to create structure, stay calm and find the next professional step, even when the framework changes.

We are looking for an authorized occupational therapist who is academically well-founded in the pediatric area and can connect theory and practice. With us you get high professional standards, humor, influence and weekly sparring in a team that actively uses each other’s professional and personal strengths. We are looking for you who want to clearly bring occupational therapy into play – through movement, play, relationship and close collaboration with the child’s adults.

What we offer

Family, Children and Education is a workplace where we emphasize high professionalism,

citizen involvement and interdisciplinarity. The fundamental approach to the work is

holistic, process-oriented and systemic.

• We offer a workplace with high well-being, diversity and security.
• We see ourselves as an inclusive workplace characterized by humor, collaboration and a positive attitude.
• We offer a variable daily life with varied tasks, where two days are never the same.
• We offer a high degree of flexibility and self-scheduling of own working hours, within the law and the nature of the tasks.
• You can expect an exciting job with a high degree of influence, collegial sparring and supervision.

We imagine that you

• Are an authorized occupational therapist and academically well-founded in the pediatric field.
• Work independently, structure a busy daily life and seek sparring when needed.
• Are interested in contributing with a playful approach as a method
• Are interested in – and preferably experienced with – oral motor development
• Can assess and evaluate children’s motor and sensorimotor development, regulation, behavior and participation opportunities.
• Are interested in the neuroaffective framework – preferably with knowledge of NUSSA
• Have knowledge of relevant testing tools, for example M-ABC, Bayley, SPM or Sensory Profile.
• Can connect theory and clinical reasoning to training, guidance and concrete interventions in the child’s everyday life.
• Can build good relationships and advise children, families and professionals clearly and empathetically.
• Trives in interdisciplinary collaboration and contributes actively to professional development and a good working environment.
• Can thrive in a changing daily life with an overview, flexibility and drive
• Have basic IT skills
• Driver's license and own car available.

Salary and employment conditions

Employment is in accordance with the applicable collective agreement for 70.21 Agreement for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and midwives, entered into between KL and the Danish Association of Occupational Therapists. The position is classified as an occupational therapist at 37 hours.

Expected salary range: 30,422 DKK - 38,647 DKK / 37 hours per week per month exclusive of employer-paid pension, flex benefit and holiday allowance. There may be locally negotiated allowances, qualifications, function and special allowances.

The final salary setting is based on your qualifications and previous work experience after concrete negotiations with the professional organization.

The position: 37 hours per week with expected start 4 January 2027

Working hours: Primarily between 8.00-17.00. Shifts may occur.

Driving: A driver's license and own car are required, as the workplace covers the entire Kerteminde Municipality.

Application deadline: Sunday 15 November 2026 at 23:59.

Interviews: Monday 23 November 2026. Selected candidates will be contacted by email on Thursday 19 November.

Workplace: Children and Youth Counseling, Lindøalleen 49, 5330 Munkebo.

Have questions? Contact the head of PPR Karen Pernille Skytte at 20 20 37 94, please feel free to send a text first and I will call back.

You can also contact the shop steward and physiotherapist Anja Hestholm at 29 34 78 22 or [email protected] with a request for a call.

or occupational therapist and coordinator Trine Lundsgaard at 21 42 10 35

We are on autumn holiday, therefore contact is possible only after week 42.

Kerteminde Municipality lies in northeastern Funen with beautiful nature, engaged villages and an active association and business life and good leisure opportunities. We are about 25,000 residents and 1,800 employees, who every day work to create good solutions together with the citizens.

In Kerteminde Municipality we work from the vision “Together About Kerteminde.” Read more about our approach to collaboration, community and development here Digital Strategy Letter

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Start date

4 January 2027

Workplace

Pedagogical Psychological Counseling (PPR)

Employment type

Full-time

Contact

Team Leader Karen Pernille Skytte Kristensen

Tel. 20 20 37 94