Developmental Occupational Therapist for the Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries

Are you our new Development Occupational Therapist for Neurorehabilitation?

Are you highly motivated to develop mono – and interdisciplinary collaboration for occupational therapists working with people with acquired brain injury?

We offer a permanent position of 37 hours per week, where you will have a central role, and switch between direct clinical practice and professional development - you are involved in translating development into concrete improvements in everyday life. The position is within highly specialized and regional rehabilitation with longer patient pathways.

We are seeking a development occupational therapist for our therapy group at the Department of Brain Injury. You will become part of a multidisciplinary team, where we together work to ensure that patients with brain injuries can achieve as independent and meaningful a life as possible, so they can become active citizens, their disability notwithstanding.

We work in teams consisting of nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, neuropsychologists, speech therapists, secretaries and doctors. As a special department, we are characterized by being in strong development and we have ambitious goals for a high mono- and multidisciplinary level.

The Department of Brain Injury is one of two departments forming the Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries, at Bodil Eskesen Center at Rigshospitalet Glostrup.

At the Department of Brain Injury we currently have room for 27 highly specialized patients and 6 regional patients and we are growing in line with the new health reform. We receive patients from throughout Eastern Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Patients' ages range from 1 year and up. We are at present a therapy group consisting of 20 occupational therapists, 22 physiotherapists, 2 development occupational therapists, 1 development physiotherapist and 2 senior therapists

Your primary tasks as development physiotherapist will be

• To lead professional leadership in close collaboration with the senior therapist
• To facilitate and support a high professional level among the occupational therapists based on evidence-based practice
• To support competence development, professional priorities and development work in the team and in the department
• To maintain overview and follow up as well as prioritise the initiatives
• To facilitate and support the good learning environment and be a bridge between different professionalities in a complex patient pathway
• To collaborate closely with the research department

We offer

• Thorough training for the specialty
• Competent mono- and interdisciplinary colleagues
• Focus on mono-disciplinary core tasks and competences in a multidisciplinary environment
• A strong and developing multidisciplinary collaboration with focus on patient and relative participation in a coherent patient pathway
• Intersectoral collaboration both after admission and in the outpatient regime
• Good opportunities to develop your own competences

We want you to

• Be motivated to develop occupational therapy as a profession
• Be a trained occupational therapist with minimum 2 years of clinical experience
• Have a relevant master's or master’s degree
• Be able to identify, initiate, drive, complete and implement development processes
• Have competencies in facilitation and supervision
• Have experience with health sciences research and/or quality development
• Want to contribute to setting a clear occupational therapy direction in collaboration with colleagues with focus on the future of occupational therapy in a multidisciplinary hospital context

Employment conditions

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the applicable collective agreement

Application procedure

The position starts from 1 January 2027 and the working hours lie between 7:45 and 15:45 on weekdays.

Salary and terms follow the collective agreement for non-management staff in the Sundhedskartellet area for 33.21.1 and the position is covered by the regulation on obtaining a child protection certificate.

For further information, you are welcome to contact

Senior therapist Nora Holmestad-Bechmann: [email protected] tel: 2146 5556

Janni Sleimann: [email protected] tel. 4074 8431

Development Occupational Therapist Lotte Mølgård: [email protected]

Union representative: [email protected]

Applications are accepted online via the link below. The application deadline is 16/11-26 at 12. Interviews will be held on 18/11-26

Here you can read more about the department: https://www.rigshospitalet.dk/afdelinger-og-klinikker/neuro/hjerne-og-rygmarvsskader/Sider/default.aspx

We look forward to receiving your application!