Child and Youth Advisor for the Disability Family Team in the Family Department

Are you a social worker or social facilitator with experience from the specialized children and youth area, and are you focused on creating the best possible conditions for children and young people with disabilities and/or social challenges, as well as their families? Then you may be the upcoming colleague who lands among dedicated and professionally well-founded colleagues in the Family Department in Viborg Municipality.

One of our good colleagues in the Family Team Handicap has sought new challenges, and we are therefore seeking a new dedicated social worker with starting date 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

As a advisor with us you will become part of the Family Department, which is divided into 5 teams – Front, Family Team North, East, West, and Family Team Handicap. You will handle tasks related to the Children’s Act, both in relation to the disability-compensating benefits in Chapter 8, but also supportive and placement-related interventions. With us we work holistically and handle the entire case processing in Family Team Handicap, including any sibling cases.

It is important to emphasize, however, that you are employed in the Family Department and that we are a unified department that supports each other across boundaries.

As an employee with us you can expect

• Mentor scheme and an introductory program for new employees
• Flexible working hours with good opportunities to influence your own working hours and home-based work by agreement
• Focus on professional development and direction
• Supervision at case level
• Professional pride!
• We use DUBU as the professional system and work based on the ICS method
• Support from social-technical consultants and team leaders
• Good mood and plenty of Pepsi Max! We place great emphasis on the social well-being in the department, and we look forward greatly to welcoming you!

About you

You are trained as a social worker or social facilitator and preferably have experience with authorities tasks – preferably from both the children and family area and disability-compensating benefits. You thrive working autonomously but are also good at broad collaboration and have a focus on inclusion. You are aware of how important systematicity and structure are for daily task handling.

You want to work in a team where we are ambitious in the child disability area and where we constantly work to develop and increase the quality of our work. We succeed in many things and are happy to think outside the box to find meaningful solutions to complex problems.

Additionally we expect that you

• actively contribute with your professional perspective and your positive mindset
• are brave, proper and skilled
• have organizational flair and understand the premise of working in a politically governed organization
• have good communicative abilities
• value inclusion of the citizen’s perspective
• can ensure good transitions with a focus on the citizen

About us

We are about 90 happy, highly skilled and engaged employees in the Family Department, focused on a good atmosphere in everyday life. We get along well and safeguard great collegiality. We are professionally ambitious, but we are also very good at supporting each other.

Our focus is aimed at creating a balance between stable lawful operation AND development of the operation. We also emphasize being a professionally well-functioning department with room for diversity.

In Family Team Handicap we are 21 social workers distributed in a Reception and a Family Team, a professional coordinator and a team leader. We have a special focus on the holistic, social-professional approach to the cases. We want to focus on ensuring that all children have the opportunity for a good childhood and adolescence life, despite disabilities. In addition, we systematically work with quality assurance of legally well-founded decisions according to the Children’s Act.

Moreover, we have a particular focus on independence and coordination of the transition from child to adult, where we participate in close, interdisciplinary collaboration with the Social Department, the Job Center and UU around the youth.

We also have a pronounced focus on involving the child in their own case – especially the children who may have difficulty expressing themselves due to disabilities. It is important to us that these children have a voice in their own lives.

Common to the entire department is that we focus on strengthened involvement of the children's perspectives in the cases, and that we insist on close cooperation with our closest partners, including Viborg Family Center, as well as Night and Relief, Health Visiting, PPL, schools and day care centers.

Valued-based leadership is practiced throughout Viborg Municipality, which provides room for maneuver within the applicable frameworks. These are set out, among other things, in our competence plan.

Physically, we are housed at Viborg City Hall, whose layout in many ways supports cross-department collaboration and creative solutions for the benefit of our citizens. The interdisciplinary collaboration is a natural part of everyday life in the Family Department.

Employment

There is 1 permanent position at 37 hours per week. The position is to be filled on 1 December 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application deadline is 24 November 2026. Employment interviews will be held on Friday 27 November 2026, and you will be invited by email.

Salary and employment terms

The salary is set based on the applicable collective agreement and a concrete assessment of your education, your documented professional experience, and your professional and personal qualifications. Before employment and entering into the salary agreement you have the opportunity to receive information about the starting salary for the specific position.

Viborg Municipality uses objective and gender-neutral criteria for salary setting in accordance with the rules on equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and in accordance with the relevant collective agreement. You can find information about salary at: KRL

Salary according to the collective agreement and local agreement between DS and Viborg Municipality.

There will be a check of child and criminal records prior to any possible employment.

Want to join the team?

You are welcome to contact us if you would like to hear more about the positions

Team Leader in the Family Team Handicap, Ida-Sofie Storm-Fredeløkke at phone 20 23 22 84 – please feel free to text if the call is not answered, and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

We look forward to reading your application!