Dementia Advisor for Slagelse Municipality

Are you our new colleague in the dementia team in Slagelse Municipality?

In Slagelse Municipality we are looking for a dementia advisor who is eager to join our team of skilled colleagues who work together to strengthen the efforts for citizens with dementia and their relatives.

The dementia team currently consists of 4 staff members who work closely with a relative advisor, welfare technology consultants, employees and managers in home care, nursing, care centers, day centers, activity centers and visitation as well as external partners, such as a memory clinic, the Alzheimer’s Association and volunteers.

The dementia team has the following tasks

• Provide guidance and sparring to staff at care centers, home care, nursing, day centers and activity centers on dementia and dementia-related topics. We provide both general sparring and training as well as guidance in concrete and often complex citizen journeys. Our focus is to learn from us, so we develop the competencies of staff in elder care. Some of what we work with includes, for example, preparing pedagogical action plans and reporting on the use of coercive measures
• Support and guidance to relatives and citizens. A part of our task is to run an open advisory service for citizens and relatives, as well as open café offerings for relatives
• Ensure the first contact with newly diagnosed citizens and their relatives
• Collaborate with voluntary organizations and patient and advocacy organizations on offerings for citizens with dementia and their relatives. We work to develop a dementia-friendly municipality
• Be involved in implementing the municipality's dementia action plan and ensure the continued development of the dementia area in the municipality

We imagine that you

• have education such as a nurse or social and health care assistant with relevant continuing education in dementia. You can also be an occupational therapist, pedagogue or similar with relevant continuing education in dementia. It is an advantage if you have a health professional basic knowledge and knowledge of medication
• have experience with dementia, preferably in a municipal context
• are ready to work with citizen journeys where the complexity is often high
• have experience teaching or providing sparring to colleagues
• have good pedagogical and communicative skills
• know the legislation in the dementia area or can familiarize yourself with it
• keep yourself up to date with national trends and knowledge about dementia
• thrive on being proactive and engaging in many different collaboration relationships across disciplines and units
• have an eye for how we can develop our dementia efforts, including internal workflows and collaboration with external partners
• thrive on working independently and planning your working day and tasks in close collaboration with your colleagues in the team
• are helpful and contribute constructively to task solving and in team collaboration
• contribute to creating a good working environment

We offer a

• development-oriented workplace where there is an opportunity to influence and contribute to new ways of solving the task
• workplace where you will have skilled and committed colleagues
• workplace with room to grow, and where we focus on helping each other succeed
• flexible workplace, including the possibility of home office days

Salary and employment terms

According to the applicable collective agreement and with a 37-hour workweek. The working hours will predominantly be on weekdays within the municipality's normal opening hours, but activities may also take place in the evening hours.

There is currently office space at Rådhuspladsen 11, 4200 Slagelse. A large part of the working time will take place at various workplaces in the municipality, e.g., care centers, home care, nursing, etc. We also expect that you have a driver's license.

If you want to know more,

you can contact

• Department head Heidi Hjort Kjelgaard at telephone 24 83 23 63 or email: [email protected]

Application deadline

• Monday, 30 November 2026

Interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday, 9 December 2026.

Employment from 1 February 2027.