Committed and professionally strong social worker for Authority and Administration (Maternity Leave Cover)

Are you passionate about high social-professional quality, professional sparring, and development of authority work in the specialized adult field? And do you have an eye for both the individual case, the common professional direction, and good collaboration in everyday life? Then this maternity leave substitute may be for you.

We are looking for an engaged and professionally strong social worker for Authority and Administration in the adult social area in Favrskov Municipality. The position is a maternity leave substitute for 37 hours per week for 8 months with possibility of extension. Depending on your competences and experience, the position may include a professional coordinator function. Start date desired 1 December 2026.

Your concrete tasks and the extent of any professional coordinator function will be planned based on your competences and experience. If you have the right prerequisites, you will have a central role in supporting advisers, ensuring quality and consistency in case processing, and contributing to the continued professional development of the area.

Your tasks

• Handle authority tasks (case processing) and contribute to qualified social-legal assessments, recommendations to the visitation committee and decisions under the Social Services Act for adults.
• Contribute to high quality, consistency and legality in the case processing.
• Work with VUM 2.0, the recovery-oriented rehabilitative approach, as well as goals and follow-up.
• Work closely with management, advisers, administration and relevant internal and external partners.
• Depending on your competences you may also take responsibility for ongoing professional sparring and advice to employees in complex citizen cases.
• Contribute to professional prioritization, coordination and follow-up on tasks in the team.
• Facilitate professional discussions, learning spaces and meetings and translate new legislation, practice and organizational decisions into daily task solving.
• Contribute to development and implementation of workflows, procedures and professional standards.

We imagine that you

• Are trained social worker.
• Have experience with authority work in the specialized adult field and a good knowledge of relevant legislation.
• If you have experience with professional coordination, sparring and quality assurance, it is an advantage and may affect the concrete content of the position.
• Can analyze complex problems and clearly and practically communicate professional and legal assessments.
• Have knowledge of VUM 2.0 and the recovery-oriented rehabilitative approach.
• Have knowledge of Sensum
• Work structured, follow up and maintain an overview in a daily life with many simultaneous tasks.
• Are curious, trust-building and clear
• Have good cooperation skills, a view of the whole, and a desire to actively contribute to a strong professional community.

About the workplace

You will become part of Authority and Administration in the adult social area – a workplace with high professionalism, strong collegiality and focus on succeeding together. The department consists of two adviser teams, professional coordination, support contact persons in outreach, a social-legal consultant and an administration that supports the entire area.

With us you meet an open and informal culture, where helpfulness, professional sparring and good humor are a natural part of everyday life. We are proud of our high professionalism and of the culture we have created together. There is room for laughter, good traditions and quirky touches that strengthen the community and job satisfaction. We take the task seriously, while ensuring that it is a nice, humane and fun place to work.

We offer

• A professionally interesting position tailored to your competences and experience.
• Possibility to take on a professional coordinator role and make a clear difference for both employees and citizens.
• An area of work with high complexity, variation and good opportunities for professional development.
• Close collaboration with engaged colleagues, leadership and cross-cutting partners.
• Influence on professional development and on translating legislation and professional methods into practice.
• A workplace with a high degree of trust, community and room for initiative.

Further information

You are welcome to contact area manager Karina Hjermitslev at phone 23 29 86 06 or email [email protected] if you want to know more about the position.

Application deadline: 19 October 2026

Employment interviews: Thursday 22 October 2026 or Tuesday 27 October 2026

Apply for the job

If you would like to be part of a workplace with high professionalism and strong collegiality, we look forward to hearing from you. Whether you have experience with professional coordination or primarily come with strong authority competencies, we encourage you to apply. Send your application to Favrskov Municipality via the recruitment system.

Favrskov Municipality can only receive applications sent electronically. It is a condition of employment that the person we wish to hire is not convicted of offenses that would make them unsuitable to hold the position. A criminal record check will therefore be obtained for the candidate who is offered employment.