Foster Care Placement Consultant

In Billund Municipality we have high ambitions on behalf of children and young people. We are seeking a placement consultant who can combine strong social work professionalism with relationship skills, curiosity and a development mindset. You will become part of a team that works purposefully to create effective placements through close collaboration with foster families, children, young people and their networks. Here you will have the opportunity to put your professional knowledge into play and help shape solutions that make a noticeable difference.

You will work closely with your colleagues in the Placement Team. The team consists of two placement consultants, a network worker, five social workers and a professional coordinator who work closely together as a team.

We need you exactly as

• have human maturity and commitment in the work with placed children and young people
• have solid pedagogical or social work experience and knowledge about placed children and young people
• Can keep sight of the child or the young person and their right to a safe upbringing
• enjoy working independently, in a structured and systematic way in a busy daily life
• are professionally creative and can think in alternative possibilities
• can co-create with children/young people, placement sites and advisers in the process of finding good solutions
• Can conduct conversations with people as they develop
• can contribute professionally and socially to the Placement Team, and to the overall Family Department, with holistic solutions, motivation and a positive and reflective approach to the work

About the job

The target group is broadly defined in the age range 0-18 years (23-year young support). Work is done across the Youth and Family Departments. You will report to the head of the Family Department, where you will also be organizationally part of.

Your task as a placement consultant mainly consists of supporting and developing foster families through close contact and guidance. You match with a starting point in the child’s or young person’s plan, as well as close dialogue with the child/young person’s adviser. It therefore requires that you are skilled in your communication, just as you must have broad knowledge of placement places and be creative in what possibilities can be offered from the individual child’s/young person’s perspective.

Your tasks are

• To ensure qualified matching between children and placement sites
• To provide supervision to foster families aligned with their current needs
• To provide intensive startup programs (TSOP) to foster families and network foster families, at the start of a new foster relationship
• To run training courses for foster families and network foster families
• Recruitment of foster families and support stays
• Approval of network foster families
• To ensure qualified matching between children and placement sites

Your new workplace

Billund Municipality is an workplace with a high ceiling and a value-based personnel policy.

We work according to the shared values; Solution-oriented mindset, that we succeed with collective help, we make an effort and that playful working is our superpower.

Organizationally, the Placement Team is located in the Family Department, which is part of the Youth and Family area in Billund Municipality.

Common for all employees is that we have an appreciative approach and start from the child’s resources and competencies. We have a particular focus on working across the different professional groups and legislations we are surrounded by in daily life. Our goal is, based on the child’s and the young person’s potential, to create coherence and development in the action and thinking.

Geographically, the Family Department is located at Billund Town Hall in Grindsted. Jorden Rundt 1 A, 7200 Grindsted. We sit together in an open office environment.

Billund Municipality has a smoke-free work time.

We offer

• A dynamic workplace with humor, job satisfaction and a wide variety of tasks
• A multidisciplinary work environment with high professionalism
• Professional support and backing from colleagues and management
• Room for creative solutions within the overarching framework
• Team collaboration, where we share challenges and joys
• Very varied and independent work
• Opportunity to make a difference in a department with ambitions to be an attractive workplace

Salary and terms of employment

The appointment is in accordance with KL’s collective agreements with a number of professional organizations on pay and terms of employment. The salary is negotiated under the applicable collective agreement.

The appointment is initially with a start date of 4 January 2027 or as agreed.

The appointment is for 37 hours.

Application deadline 15 November 2026

Interviews are expected to be held on 18 November 2026.

Questions regarding the position can be directed to the Head of the Family Department Lotte Jensen at tel. 24462948 or placement consultant Lisbeth Toft 24 76 38 03.