Children and Youth Advisors for the Family Department

• Place of employment

Family Department

• Working hours

Full-time

• Terms of employment

Permanent employment

• Start date

January 1, 2027

• Application deadline

October 18, 2026

• Contact

Ida-Sofie Storm-Fredeløkke

20 23 22 84Anne Rørbæk Christoffersen

93598029

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Are you a social worker or social facilitator with experience from the specialized children and youth field, 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 among engaged and professionally well-founded colleagues in the Family Department in Viborg Municipality.

One of our good colleagues has found new and exciting opportunities in their career – and another is going on parental leave. Therefore there is now an opportunity to apply for a permanent position in Family Team North and/or a maternity leave vacancy in Family Team Handicap. Both positions are full-time and with start on January 1, 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 and Family Team Handicap. You will handle tasks related to the Children's Act. It is important to emphasize that you are employed in the Family Department, and that we are a united department that supports each other across the organization.

As an employee with us you can expect

• Mentor arrangement and an introduction program for new employees
• Flexitime with good opportunities to influence your own working hours and home working
• Focus on professional development and direction
• Supervision at case level
• Professional pride
• We use DUBU as a professional system and work based on the ICS method
• Support from social science consultants, a professional coordinator and team leaders
• Good mood and plenty of cake! We place great emphasis on the social well-being in the department.

About you

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

You thrive working independently, but are also good at collaborating broadly and focus on inclusion. You are aware of how important systematic work and structure is for daily task performance.

We also 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 including the citizen’s perspective
• can ensure good transitions with a focus on the citizen

About us

We are about 85 happy, highly skilled and engaged employees in the Family Department, focused 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 aimed at creating a balance between stable, law-abiding operation AND development of the operation. We also strive to be 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 processing when a decision on a supportive intervention in the family has been made. We prepare child-related assessments, perform follow-ups on interventions and also prepare recommendations to the Children and Young People Committee in cases of placement without consent. Therefore, a high degree of systematic work and structure is expected in daily operations.

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

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

In Family Team Handicap we are about 20 social workers spread across an Intake and a Family Team, a professional coordinator and a team leader. We have a special focus on a holistic, social-work based approach to cases. We want to emphasize that all children should have the opportunity for a good childhood and adolescence, despite their disabilities. Additionally, we work systematically with quality assurance of legally well-founded decisions pursuant to §§ 86 and 87 of the Children’s Act.

We also have a particular focus on independence and coordination of the transition from child to adult, where we participate in close, cross-disciplinary cooperation with the Social Department, the Job Center and UU around the young person.

We also have an explicit 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 lives.

Common to the entire department is that we focus on strengthened involvement of the children's perspective in the cases and that we insist on close collaboration with our closest partners, including Viborg Family Center, as well as Overnight Care and Relief, Health Visitors, PPL, schools and kindergartens.

Value-based leadership is practiced throughout Viborg Municipality, which provides room to maneuver within the existing framework. These are also stated in our competency plan.

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

Employment

There is one fixed position of 37 hours per week, and a maternity leave vacancy of one year, also 37 hours per week. The positions are to be filled no later than January 1, 2027.

The application deadline is Sunday, October 18, 2026. Interviews are scheduled for October 22, 2026.

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

Background checks and criminal record checks will be obtained before starting employment.

Salary and terms of employment

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. Prior to 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

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 at phone 20 23 22 84 or Team Leader in Family Team North, Anne Rørbæk Christoffersen at phone 93 59 80 29. Please feel free to send a text message first, and we will get back to you.

We look forward to reading your application!