Specialist psychologist or psychologist to Housing Team West, District Psychiatry in Holbæk

Do you want to help support an important and central effort in the 10-year plan for psychiatry, which is the effort for people with a mental illness who live in housing? And would you like to step into a strong professional environment with engaged colleagues and good opportunities to influence both treatment and the development of the offering. Then a special psychologist or psychologist position in Residential Team West might be something for you.

Residential Team West is a multidisciplinary team that works closely together about people with complex psychiatric problems who live in housing. The team consists of a clinical psychologist, a medical specialist and a chief physician in psychiatry, nurses, pedagogues, an occupational therapist, a social facilitator, a peer worker and secretaries. The team covers housing facilities in the municipalities of Holbæk, Odsherred, Kalundborg, Slagelse, Ringsted and Sorø. Your workplace will be the District Psychiatry in Holbæk.

In Residential Team West we collaborate with staff at housing facilities, municipal partners, relatives and other parts of psychiatry to create cohesive treatment pathways with a focus on recovery, stability and quality of life.

We work according to the F-ACT model, where several professional groups contribute actively to patient pathways. The treatment is planned flexibly with the possibility of home visits and video consultations and based on where the individual is in their treatment course. We offer integrated dual-diagnosis treatment for patients with both complex mental illness and concomitant substance-use issues.

Some of the tasks as a special psychologist or psychologist will be initial conversations with newly referred patients, diagnostic assessment and interview/therapy. You will have opportunities for professional sparring at cross-disciplinary conferences and at medical and psychologist conferences, where we discuss complex patient pathways and develop our shared professional knowledge. You will have a clinical psychology colleague in the residential team and you will become part of a group of psychologists with four clinical psychologists and a psychologist across the District Psychiatry Holbæk.

We prioritize professional reflection, collegial sparring and collaboration highly because we know that the best solutions arise in collaboration.

Your tasks depending on your level of experience

• Journal entry and treatment planning
• Psychopathological diagnostic assessment
• Psychological testing (primarily cognitive and social-cognitive)
• Counseling sessions and relative/family conversations
• Psychoeducational conversations
• Participation in cross-sector collaboration
• Handling multidisciplinary supervision
• Teaching of multidisciplinary staff

We offer

• To become part of a multidisciplinary staff group with engaged colleagues in a good atmosphere characterized by collaboration and mutual goodwill
• To work at a workplace where management focuses on employee well-being with respect to their own professional group, other professional groups and in relation to management
• Good possibilities for supervision, education and professional development

You will become part of Psychiatry West under Midt- and Vestsjællands Hospital

An organization in development with about 520 employees. In the West there are main functions for adults over 17 years within acute reception, 24/7 and outpatient functions. Psychiatry West also has special functions within the treatment of affective conditions, traumatized refugees, PTSD and oligophrenia. We have a Fusion Clinic/Steno diabetes-psychiatry unit and work especially closely with Holbæk and Slagelse hospitals.

Psychiatry West has its own research unit with a professor in clinical pharmacology and several PhD students. In addition, we participate in a number of projects intended to secure closer cooperation with our municipalities and police. We work purposefully to reduce the use of coercion, and cooperation with somatics is also important. Our aim is a psychiatry focused on recovery, involvement of patients and networks, high professionalism, ethics and education.

In addition, there is a goal to create the best possible learning environments for our various training programs for doctors, nurses, social- and health assistants, etc., as well as to ensure a healthy and safe working environment for patients and staff.

Further information

As a rule, this is a full-time position. The position is to be filled on 1 January 2027 or by agreement. Further information can be obtained by contacting Chief Specialist Mia Rydahl, tel. 24 23 86 46, or Chief Consultant Line Lindhardt, 41 55 85 03. You are of course welcome to drop by for an informal chat.

You can read more about Psychiatry West .

Recruitment interviews 18 November 2026

Salary and employment conditions

The position falls under the agreement: Academics. In connection with employment in Psychiatry, references are collected.

Employment area

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

Read more about the significance of the employment area on the Region East Denmark website.

Starting salary for agreement-employed

The region is obliged to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be told basic salary, centrally fixed allowances and pension under the relevant union 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 Midt- and Vestsjællands Hospital

At Midt- and Vestsjællands Hospital we work every day to promote healthy living by preventing and treating in a coherent health effort. As a hospital, we combine psychiatry and somatics. Our goal is that patients and citizens experience good and secure high-quality pathways.

As an employee you will become part of a forward-thinking, professional and organizationally robust hospital where we make a difference for the people who need us. Learning and development are part of everyday life and occur in professionally committed communities. Also across departments.

Midt- and Vestsjællands Hospital covers an area of about 230,000 inhabitants. We have 766 beds and around 5,000 employees distributed 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 about 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in continuing education programs.