Head of Department at the Solvang Care Home

Would you be our professional beacon and work strategically with the §110 area under the Social Services Act? Are you a clear leader of staff who can create security and structure in a changing daily life? Center for Care and Treatment is seeking a department head for the Care Home Solvang in Glostrup.

As department head you ensure - through your skilled leadership - that our professional standards and approaches are reflected in daily work with residents. In addition you will play an important role in shaping the house's professional development.

Who are we?

Solvang is a §110 facility under Center for Care and Treatment (CFB), which is part of The Social Enterprise (DSV) in the Capital Region. The facility is aimed at adults over 18 who are homeless or unable to stay in their own housing, and who need a temporary stay.

At Solvang we meet people with very different life stories and challenges. Many of our residents have social problems combined with mental health challenges and/or substance abuse problems.

Solvang has room for 28 residents and is staffed by 19 dedicated and skilled employees with various social and health care backgrounds. Together we work to create a professionally strong environment where both residents and staff experience security, development and job satisfaction.

Your tasks

As department head you ensure that the social-educational work lives up to our requirements for professionalism as well as other quality standards. Through your professional expertise and leadership you set direction and ensure optimal conditions for our important work helping residents move forward in life.

You will have tasks related to

• New professional initiatives
• Contribute to stable operation of the house through your visible and active involvement
• Staff leadership of our skilled employees

You will also be part of a larger management group where you together with capable colleagues contribute to CFB's continued development, including strategic direction.

In your leadership role you will receive support from CFB’s central administrative functions, including finance, HR, development and communications.

What do we expect from you?

You have a social-educational degree at bachelor's level, such as social educator or social worker. You also have experience with leadership, preferably from a similar position or at least from a team leader/assistant manager role. We also welcome ongoing or completed education in leadership.

In addition we emphasize that you

• Have interest in and experience with social-educational work, preferably with homeless or other marginalized people
• Have an appreciative, inclusive and trust-based leadership style
• Work structurally with a good overview
• Have institutional experience, preferably from a 24-hour unit and ideally within §110 area
• May have experience with methods in work with socially exposed people, such as MI
• Have professional engagement and a professional approach to residents and colleagues
• Are good at turning words into action
• Have good communication skills, including clarity
• Are motivated by collaboration and interaction with others
• Understand how to create job satisfaction around you through your encouraging and positive approach

Moreover it is important that you are able to balance safely between process and action (goal management), which is a premise in a social-pedagogical environment where there is collaboration with vulnerable people.

We offer

An organization that in the coming years wishes to lift and develop our efforts. The goal is to create an even better offer for our residents and to create an attractive workplace, where we have a strong focus on camaraderie and the working environment.

You will also become part of a large organization that opens up good opportunities for your own career development.

In addition we offer

• An exciting and meaningful job where you will be part of the residents' positive development
• A colleague- and employee group with great knowledge and experience in the social and health field
• An organization focused on high professionalism and development of the staff
• An organization that emphasizes open dialogue and humor in everyday life
• A good leadership community with focus on interdisciplinary collaboration

Center for Care and Treatment

Center for Care and Treatment is an organization under The Social Enterprise in the Capital Region. We consist of:

• Homelessness initiatives, where we have three §110 offerings: Skansegården, Solvang and Skovporten. We have a total of 120 places for citizens affected by homelessness. In addition we have §85a housing support programs, where we work with CTI AND ICM with citizens who move into their own housing
• Treatment, where we offer outpatient treatment for substance and alcohol dependence. We have two outpatient clinics, located in Hillerød and Hørsholm
• ANT courses. Alcohol, Drug and Traffic courses. The courses are aimed at citizens who have received a driving ban, a conditional or unconditional revocation of their driver's license
• Course company, where we offer courses aimed at the social-educational and pedagogical field

In Center for Care and Treatment we therefore focus on several professional perspectives that characterize the life of the marginalized client/resident. We benefit from offering both substance abuse treatment and social-pedagogical interventions for citizens affected by homelessness. Combined with our good collaboration with municipalities and hospitals, we can offer a holistic approach to citizens/residents

You can read about Center for Care and Treatment at www.densocialvirksomhed.dk/cfb

Employment terms

This is a full-time position with no maximum working hours.

Salary and terms follow the applicable collective agreement based on education.

Social-pedagogical staff in 24-hour facilities - collective agreement 32.38.1

Social workers - collective agreement 32.32.1

Academics employed in the regions etc. - collective agreement 33.01.1

Social and health personnel – collective agreement 32.03.1

Start

Position intended to be filled on February 1, 2027.

Application

Further information about the position can be obtained from center chief Nikolaj Olsen on tel. 21 52 29 87, or area manager Sandra Steckel Magnussen on tel. 23 66 52 38.

The application deadline is November 23, 2026.

First interview will take place December 1, 2026.

If you are invited to a second interview, there will be a personality test and a case, which you will receive feedback on.

Second interview will be held December 10, 2026.

Please note that we are a smoke-free workplace, and that employment is conditional on a satisfactory criminal record check.

Your application should be sent via the link below to Center for Care and Treatment.