Child and Youth Advisor for the Receiving Team in Children & Families

In the Reception Team we are seeking a skilled and qualified child and adolescent advisor for a permanent position of 37 hours per week. The position is to be filled as soon as possible or no later than December 1, 2026.

About the job and the tasks

In the Reception Team, the tasks include

• Case processing of new inquiries/notifications concerning children and young people aged 0-17 years.
• Screening of cases.
• 24-hour assessment of notifications on weekdays.
• Initiation of early preventive interventions.
• Professional assessment and decision on the needs assessment (afdækning).
• Professional assessment and decision on initiation of child-focused investigations.
• Consultancy role with regard to collaboration partners.
• Prevention work and early detection – including SSP, network meetings at schools and day-care institutions.

Our expectations of you

We expect that you

• Are a trained social worker, and ideally have several years of experience within the authority area concerning children and young people.
• Are a team player and prepared to take shared responsibility in the operation and development of both the team’s and the entire department's solution to the core task.
• Have good communication skills, both oral and written. It is a prerequisite that you see collaboration with networks and partners around children, young people and families as a given, and that you continually reflect on how you contribute to the quality of the collaboration.
• Reflect on your own practice and always be willing to learn and be inspired by colleagues, just as you are happy to make yourself available as inspiration and sparring partner for your colleagues.
• Can handle a busy workday and is good at prioritizing so you can both act and delve into the task - depending on the nature of the assignment.

The Reception Team is physically located in Juelsminde, but covers the entire municipality. Therefore, a lot of driving is to be expected, so a driver's license and willingness to use your own car is a necessity in the job.

Hedensted Municipality is a smoke-free workplace where smoking is not allowed during working hours.

Why you should choose us

We offer

• Individually tailored introductory program.
• Opportunity to carry out good social work in the early and preventive field.
• Opportunity to bring your own competencies into play and contribute to the development of the department.
• A varied and exciting job.
• A good work environment and collegial community in the team and across both the authority and service delivery in Children & Families.
• Management support and backing.
• Professional reflection and sparring as needed.
• External supervision.
• Ongoing professional development.
• Health scheme and staff association with ongoing events and discount schemes.

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and employment according to the applicable collective agreement, with the possibility to negotiate qualification and job-based pay.

The position is a permanent 37-hour-per-week role. Employment with start as soon as possible and no later than December 1, 2026. A criminal record check and child protection background check, as well as documentation of a driving license, will be obtained.

Have questions

Further information can be obtained by contacting team leader Karen Marie Nielsen at tel. 29 68 44 31.

Application

Application deadline is Tuesday 20 October 2026, but do not delay applying as we invite to interviews on an ongoing basis, and when the position is filled the posting will be removed.

About us

All citizens in Hedensted Municipality should thrive. We, as a municipality, must support them in that movement. For Children & Families, this means actively contributing to ensure that children and young people have the best possible conditions and safe learning environments, both at home and in our institutions. We must support them in developing their participation capacity and opportunities. We see this as a shared responsibility, where families, local communities, and the municipality’s offerings together create the movement for all children and young people.

Children & Families covers the specialized child and youth area for 0-18 years and referred citizens with a refugee background during the first three years in Denmark. We are organizationally placed under Learning.

The core task for Learning in Hedensted Municipality is “Together we create movement so that children and young people in committed communities develop into capable and future-ready people.”

In Children & Families, together with our partners, we focus on early contact with children, young people, and their families with special needs, and develop the interventions for the families. In Children & Families and across the entire Learning area we share a common view of children and youth: All children and young people do as well as they can – let us give them the opportunity together.

We have a particular focus on involving the children, the young people and their families, and work with interdisciplinary coordination and Signs of Safety – as well as developing various involvement tools depending on the child’s/young person’s age, functional level and challenge. We work purposefully with the systematic approach in case processes, and have a broad range of offers to involve. Across Children & Families, we are all agreed that we are each other’s prerequisite for succeeding in creating change for the children, the young, and their families, and must support each other in accomplishing the tasks.