Head of Department for the Children and Youth Center Vejle Fjord

Are you a skilled social-pediatrician (socialpædagog) with leadership experience from the residential area? Then read on! We need you to lead the Udsigten department with seven children and young people placed in residential care.

About the job

Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord is seeking a pedagogically skilled, ambitious and meaningful leader as department head for our residential department, Udsigten in Bredballe.

As department head you will be responsible for the social-pedagogical treatment and development as well as the staff leadership of the department. Concrete implications are that you plan and hold staff meetings, MU conversations and provide relevant sparring to the pedagogical staff. The starting point for the work is the individual treatment plans for the children in the residential department. In other words, you are responsible for ensuring that agreements and plans are followed up, evaluated and adjusted. You are close to the pedagogical practice.

You participate in intake meetings, admission meetings, status meetings and discharge meetings and work systematically and quality-consciously with documentation.

You also have responsibility for solving a number of administrative management tasks, including complying with the department's budget. Other administrative management tasks include managing the petty cash, creating work-time schedules and vacation plans and organizing the staff's working hours and meeting plans in collaboration with the administrative time-planner.

The ideal candidate has experience with specialized and specially arranged social-pedagogical treatment of children with massive attachment disturbances and diverse symptom expressions. You are anchored in a solid professional foundation and can distinguish between immediate symptom pictures and underlying conditions. You can also help staff regulate the nervous system and ensure that professional working hypotheses and daily pedagogical practice are based on solid analyses, supported by ongoing treatment conferences facilitated by the internal psychologists.

You can do many things, but the starting point is that

• That you motivate and inspire your staff in daily practice,
• That you are a present and trust-building person who can live out the values in your leadership and create followership,
• That you have relevant leadership experience, preferably from a residential facility for placed children and youths,
• That you have broad social-pedagogical knowledge and experience within the field of special education,
• That you can guide and advise staff in the pedagogical work,
• That you work purposefully and loyally with each individual child's development goals and the strategic goals for the department, the institution (the board) and the administration,
• That you collaborate smoothly and constructively with both parents and networks as well as with cross-disciplinary partners,
• That you work systematically and structurally with administrative tasks,
• That you can see yourself in the vision for BUCVF and the Common Professional Foundation for BUCVF and KFUM’s Social Work values,

About us

Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord is a self-governing social-pedagogical children and youth home under KFUM’s Social Work, which has entered into a service agreement with Vejle Municipality. Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord has about 130 employees, and there are about 40 placed children and youths.

The leadership group consists of the principal, development consultant, 4 (residential) department heads, 1 head of the practical-administrative team and the substitute corps, 1 head of the outpatient team/visit house, 1 head of quality assurance, 1 school principal and 1 pedagogical leader in the school. In addition there are internal social workers, psychologists and coordinators.

Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord accepts children and youths aged 4 - 18 years. The children who live with us have massive difficulties, typically as a result of their upbringing conditions.

The children live in 4 different houses with unit divisions in Brejning and Bredballe. The houses are homes for the children for a shorter or longer period.

Department Udsigten is a residential department with room for 7 children and youths. The department has a particular focus on establishing a safe and warm environment for placed children and youths while also offering a clearly individualized structured daily routine. The treatment effort is planned based on predetermined treatment conferences for each child. The children are usually placed for a longer period. The department is physically located on the main campus in Bredballe.

Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord also has an internal school with capacity for 42 pupils, and there is also a recreation house that supports contact between the children and their families and contributes to making visits a positive experience.

You can read more about us and our foundation by using the links below

Homepage Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord

Common Professional Foundation

KFUM's Social Work

We offer you

We have fantastic facilities and are conveniently close to the highway. For the right applicant this is a truly exciting, challenging and development-oriented position. You will become part of a strong professional environment with room for humor and care for one another. You will work together with engaged department heads and staff who, like you, are passionate about contributing to the children at Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord having a good childhood.

Terms of employment

Starting December 1, 2026.

Employment will be in accordance with the relevant collective agreement and according to the principles of local pay formation.

Application deadline

Application deadline October 18, 2026

Interviews will be held on Friday October 23, 2026 8.30-15.

Would you like to know more?

You are welcome to contact the principal Michael Højer [email protected] to arrange a telephone interview.

Read more about Børn og Unge Center Vejle Fjord at www.bucvf.dk

Certificates

We will obtain a public criminal record and a child suitability certificate.

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