Child and Youth Advisor to the Intake Team in Children & Families

In the Receiving Team we are looking for a skilled and qualified child and youth counsellor for a permanent position of 37 hours per week. The position is to be filled as soon as possible or no later than 1 December 2026.

About the job and the tasks

In the Receiving Team the tasks include

• Case processing of new inquiries/notifications concerning children and youth aged 0-17 years.
• Screening of cases.
• 24-hour assessment of notifications on weekdays.
• Initiation of early preventive interventions.
• Professional assessment and decision on disclosure/needs assessment.
• Professional assessment and decision to start child welfare investigations.
• Consultancy function in relation to partners.
• Preventive work and early detection – including SSP (local community safety partnerships), network meetings at schools and day care centers.

Our expectations of you

We expect that you

• Are a trained social worker, and optimally have several years of experience within the authority area concerning children and young people.
• Are a team player and prepared to take co-responsibility in the operation and development of both the team's and the whole department's solution of 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 continuously 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 yourself are happy to make yourself available as inspiration and a sparring partner for your colleagues.
• Can handle a busy workday and are good at prioritizing so you can act and immerse yourself – depending on the nature of the task.

The Receiving Team is physically located in Juelsminde, but covers the entire municipality. Therefore, a lot of driving must be expected, so a driving license and willingness to use your own car are 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 introduction program.
• Opportunity to perform 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 authority and practitioner in Children & Families.
• Management support and backing.
• Professional reflection and sparring as needed.
• External supervision.
• Ongoing competence development.
• Health scheme and staff association with offers of ongoing events and discount schemes.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment in accordance with the applicable collective agreement, with the possibility of negotiating qualifications and functional pay.

The position is a permanent full-time job of 37 hours per week. Employment to start as soon as possible and no later than 1 December 2026. A criminal record check and a child protection check will be obtained, as well as documentation for driving license.

Have questions

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

Application

The 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 residents of Hedensted Municipality should move about well. We as a municipality must support them in this movement. For Children & Families that means we must actively contribute to ensuring that children and young people have optimal 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 citizens with refugee background in 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 we, together with our partners, focus on getting in contact early with children, young people and their families with special needs, and developing the interventions for the families. In Children & Families and the entire Learning area we have a shared view of children and young people “ All children and young people do as well as they can – let us together give them the opportunity".

We have a particular focus on involving the children, the young people and their families, and work with cross-disciplinary coordination and Signs of Safety – just as we develop different involvement tools, depending on the child’s/young person’s age, functional level and challenge. We work purposefully with the systematics of case processes, and have a wide range of services to involve.

We are across the entire Children & Families united in that we are each other’s prerequisite for succeeding in creating the change for the children, the young people and their families, and must support each other in solving the task.

Department: Receiving Team Juelsminde

Application deadline: 20 October 2026

Location: Tofteskovvej 4, 7130 Juelsminde, Denmark