Child and Youth Advisors for the Family Department

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

One of our good colleagues has taken on new exciting opportunities in their career – and another will be going on maternity leave. Therefore there is now an opportunity to apply for a permanent position in Family Team North and/or a maternity cover in Family Team Handicap. Both positions are full-time and with start on 1 January 2027.

As an advisor with us you will become part of the Family Department, which is divided into 5 teams – Front/Progressive, Family Team North, East, West, as well as Family Team Handicap. You will handle tasks related to the Child Act. It is important to emphasise that you are employed in the Family Department, and that we are a unified department that supports each other across teams.

As an employee with us you can expect

• Mentor program and introduction program for new employees
• Flex time and good opportunities to influence your own working hours and teleworking
• Focus on professional development and direction
• Supervision at case level
• Professional pride
• We use DUBU as the professional system and work according to the ICS method
• Support from social science consultants, a professional coordinator and team leaders
• Good mood and lots of cake! We place great emphasis on the social welfare within the department.

About you

You are educated as a social worker or social educator and preferably have experience with authority tasks – ideally from both the children- and family area and disability-related benefits. If you are a newly graduated social worker, you should not hesitate to apply with us.

You enjoy working independently but are also good at collaborating broadly and you focus on involvement. You are aware of how important systematicity and structure are for daily task execution.

Furthermore we expect that you

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

About us

We are about 85 happy, highly capable and engaged employees in the Family Department, focusing on a good atmosphere in daily life. We get along well and value good collegiality. We are professionally ambitious, but we are also very good at supporting each other.

Our focus is on creating a balance between stable, law-abiding operation AND development of the operation. We also value being a professionally well-functioning department with room for diversity.

In Family Team North we are 15 social workers and a team leader. We handle case management when a decision has been made on a supportive intervention in the family. We prepare child-related investigations, conduct follow-ups on interventions, and also prepare recommendations to the Children and Youth Committee in cases of placement without consent. Therefore a high degree of systematicity and structure is expected in daily work.

We have a special task of involving the child’s perspective in the most gentle way, while as quickly as possible clarifying the necessary support level.

As a advisor in a Family Team you will join a team where we offer each other close professional sparring and collegial support in the very diverse tasks we navigate.

In Family Team Handicap we are about 20 social workers distributed in a Reception and a Family Team, a professional coordinator and a team leader. We have a particular focus on the holistic, social-work-oriented approach to cases. We want to emphasize that all children should have the opportunity for a good childhood and youth, despite disabilities. In addition, we work systematically with quality assurance of legally well-founded decisions according to §§ 86 and 87 of the Child Act.

Additionally, we have a particular focus on empowering and coordinating the transition from child to adult, where we participate in close, cross-disciplinary collaboration with the Social Department, the Job Center and UU regarding the young person.

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

Common for the entire department is that we focus on strengthened involvement of the children’s perspectives in cases, and that we insist on close cooperation with our closest collaborators, including Viborg Family Center, as well as Døgn and Aflastning, Health Visitor Service, PPL, schools and kindergartens.

There is a values-based leadership practiced throughout Viborg Municipality, which provides room for maneuver within the applicable frameworks. These are outlined, among other places, in our competency plan.

Physically we are housed at Viborg City Hall, which with its interior arrangement greatly supports cross-department collaboration and creative solutions to benefit our citizens. The interdisciplinary collaboration is a natural part of daily life in the Family Department.

Hiring

There is one permanent position at 37 hours per week, and a maternity cover for one year, likewise 37 hours per week. The positions must be filled no later than 1 January 2027.

The application deadline is Sunday 18 October 2026. Interviews will be held on 22 October 2026.

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

Criminal and child safeguarding checks will be obtained prior to starting employment.

Salary and employment terms

Salary is determined based on applicable collective agreement and a concrete assessment of your education, your documented professional experience, and your professional and personal qualifications. Before employment and signing 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 determination 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

Want to join the team?

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

Team Leader in Family Team Handicap, Ida-Sofie Storm-Fredeløkke on phone 20 23 22 84, or Team Leader in Family Team North, Anne Rørbæk Christoffersen on phone 93 59 80 29. Please feel free to send an SMS first, and we will get back to you.

We look forward to reading your application!