Are you a nurse and would you like to work with children with autism at the Autism Center of Southern Denmark?

Due to new exciting tasks, we are now seeking a nurse with coordinating duties at Bihuset Døgn in Odense.

Could you imagine

• To help develop the health professional work at Bihuset Døgn?
• To work with individual care and pedagogical approach to the individual child/young person?
• To use and develop your competences in a everyday life filled with professional sparring and reflection?
• To work across professions and sectors with contact to various partners?
• To help ensure continuity in the health professional offering?
• To work closely with parents, other relatives, health professionals, pedagogues, pedagogical assistants, care aides, occupational therapists, managers and the nursing professional consultant at Autism Center Southern Denmark?

What is Bihuset Døgn?

Bihuset Døgn is part of Autism Center Southern Denmark , which also has departments in Kværndrup, Ringe, Kolding, Middelfart and Fredericia.

Bihuset Døgn is a child- and youth home (24-hour facility) for children and young people with pervasive developmental disorders within the autism spectrum including infantil autism, atypical autism and Asperger's syndrome.

The children need a special educational offer with structure and predictability, as well as compensatory strategies regarding communication and social interaction. With us no one is different, but all are different.

The age group currently is 6-17 years.

We focus on development and strengthening collaboration across professions and working from our shared core task:

With a basis in each child's resources, dreams and hope, we strengthen self-determination and promote self-reliance to support the children's own experience of quality of life and a meaningful life.

At Bihuset Døgn we offer

• To work with children and youth with autism spectrum disorders
• To work with your health professional competences
• A strong professional environment with a high degree of specialization
• Basic professional training of 6 days in the center within the first 12 months
• Individually tailored introduction based on your competences
• Professional theme days, meetings and sparring
• A good working environment with engaged colleagues
• That you become part of a staff group that is also part of a large organization, therefore knowledge sharing across is expected
• Management and tone of conduct characterized by visibility and recognition

About the job

You will, in collaboration with other health professional colleagues, take responsibility for:

• Coordination and documentation of the health professional efforts for all children
• Compliance with and continuous work with the benchmarks for residential centers set by the Danish Patient Safety Authority
• Medical contact, hospital visits and other health professional agreements in collaboration with the social- and health care assistants and the pedagogical staff.
• Medication management.
• Delegation of competencies to the pedagogical staff.
• Communication of health professional knowledge sharing and discussions at staff and team meetings, including attention to competence development
• Working with adverse events (UTH) as case handler and development and dissemination of preventive measures in close cooperation with the department head
• Continuous sparring with the center's nursing professional consultant
• Network with other health professional colleagues across the center, both at sparring meetings and quarterly theme days.

There is close collaboration with the children's parents, other relatives, general practitioners, specialists, school, institutions and other partners who support the children's physical and mental health.

We place high value on sparring between pedagogical and health professional staff, as neither a pedagogical nor a clinical view can stand alone.

Our wishes

• You are a trained nurse with several years of experience and with desire and energy for working with citizens. If you have experience with the target group it is desirable, but not required.
• The most important is that you have solid, clinical experience you can use with us and be a professionally strong and competent colleague.
• You have interest and engagement for the target group and are focused on creating good relationships with the children/young people, relatives, colleagues and partners
• You are strong in your nursing documentation
• You are initiative-taking and can work independently and thrive on seeking sparring
• You work affirmatively and conflict de-escalating
• You are structured and can maintain overview, as the tasks are varied.
• You thrive being part of a team
• You are good at communicating across professional boundaries and can work with an educational aim.
• Can receive and give feedback with view to common goals and development
• You must have a valid driving license for a car.

Job Description Nurse

The position is initially 37 hours. Autism Center Southern Denmark is part of the Social area under Region of Southern Denmark. We are flexible regarding work time planning, but we expect you to work primarily weekdays in day shifts, with about 3-4 evening shifts per month. You work every 4th weekend.

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to send a text to Department Head Maria Hannemann Jespersen at 30433175 and I will call you back as soon as possible.

Application deadline 20 November. Interviews will be held in week 48, start 1 January 2027

We look forward to receiving your application