Carelink Sheltered Housing is seeking a Department Head for the Department of Psychiatry and Self-Harm

Do you want to lead a professionally strong team and help ensure safe, structured and individually tailored environments for children and adults with psychological challenges and self-harming behavior? Then you are the one we are looking for.

Carelink Secure Residential Homes

Carelink Secure Residential Homes consists of several departments that offer specially tailored housing solutions for children, youths and adults with a need for extensive support, cf. the Children’s Act § 43 and the Social Services Act §§ 107 and 108. Each department is specialized within its respective target group.

The Department of Psychiatry and Self-harm is for the target group of children and adults aged 10–40 years. They are characterized by challenges arising from anxiety, personality disorder, attachment disorder or attention disorder, and with self-harming and inwardly reacting behavior.

The department consists of 2 independent apartments, where the individual citizen lives alone in a secured environment. Around each citizen there is a fixed group of pedagogical and health professional staff attached, with a staffing ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1, depending on the citizen’s needs.

About the job

We are seeking an experienced department head for our Department of Psychiatry and Self-harm in Funen.

You will have daily personnel responsibility for 20-25 skilled and dedicated employees with high professional knowledge and expertise in the field.

Your most important task will be to lead, motivate and develop the staff group and to ensure a consistent, methodological and pedagogical approach to each citizen.

Your tasks include, among others

• Daily personnel management, motivation and staff development.
• Shift planning and handling of employment relations.
• Visible leadership with a focus on well-being, professionalism and collaboration.
• Ensuring high quality in the pedagogical and health professional interventions.
• Individual and collective competency development within the staff group.
• Implementation and retention of common methods, approaches and procedures.
• Ensuring thorough documentation, including status reports to authorities.
• Responsibility for daily operations and the quality of the department.
• Close collaboration with municipal authorities, placement municipalities, Social Supervisory Authority and other relevant partners.
• Ability to create coherence between daily practice, professional quality and written documentation. At the same time, you must ensure constructive collaboration with both staff, municipalities, relatives and other actors around the individual citizen.

A driving license and your own car are a prerequisite to be able to fulfill the position.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with solid management experience and practical experience with the target group.

We imagine that you

• Have a social work or pedagogical education.
• Have experience with personnel management and professional development.
• Have practical experience with citizens with psychiatric challenges and self-harming behavior.
• Preferably have experience from the residential care sector.
• Are good at creating followership, motivating staff and setting a clear professional direction.
• Can translate professional methods and procedures into daily practice.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Work systematically and have a focus on quality in documentation.
• Thrive in close collaboration with municipal advisors and other professionals.
• Understand the importance of good cooperation with the citizens’ relatives
• Are a clear and present leader who can create overview in a complex everyday life while maintaining focus on both staff well-being and the citizens’ individual needs.

We offer

At Carelink Secure Residential Homes you will be part of an organization in development where professionalism, integrity and engagement are central values.

We offer

• A workplace with skilled and engaged colleagues at all levels.
• A professionally strong environment with high ambitions.
• Possibility for professional supervision and ongoing competency development.
• An interdisciplinary leadership community with opportunities for sparring and collaboration.
• A varied daily life with professional and managerial challenges.
• A meaningful job where you help create the best possible conditions for the citizens we are responsible for.

About Carelink Secure Residential Homes

Carelink Secure Residential Homes is part of the Carelink Group, which delivers welfare services including health, employment, social services and elder care.

Carelink Secure Residential Homes is part of Carelink Housing, which runs supervision-approved housing for children, youths and adults.

Our view of people is that all individuals have value and resources, but that the path to develop and bring these into play is individual.

Our values are

• We respect each other and the task.
• We find solutions.
• We do it properly.

Application and contact

Can you see yourself in the position, and are you motivated by creating professional quality, stable operation and good conditions for both staff and citizens? Then we look forward to hearing from you.

We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, and the position is to be filled as soon as possible.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact

Jeppe Hassel-Pflugh, Area Manager

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 28 70 23 83

Application deadline

October 30, 2026