Experienced department manager sought for Carelink Sheltered Housing

Will you lead a professionally strong team and help ensure safe, structured and individually tailored frameworks for citizens with developmental disabilities and/or autism? Then you are the person we are looking for as the new department head, who will be part of a team of several department heads.

Carelink Shielded Housing

Carelink Shielded Housing consists of several departments that offer specially tailored residential care for children, youths and adults with a need for extensive support, cf. the Child Act § 43 and the Social Services Act §§ 107 and 108. Each department specializes in its own target group.

The Department for Autism and Developmental Disabilities is for citizens who have challenges as a result of developmental disabilities and a diagnosis within the autism spectrum, and who may have challenges with outwardly directed behavior. They are in the age group 12–50 years.

The department consists of several premises and houses, where each citizen lives alone in a shielded environment. Around each citizen is attached a fixed group of pedagogical and health care staff with a staffing ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1, depending on the citizen's needs.

About the job

We are seeking an experienced department head for our department for autism and developmental disabilities, primarily in Funen and on the Jutland peninsula.

You will have the daily personnel responsibility for 20-25 skilled and dedicated employees with high professional knowledge and expertise in the field.

Your most important task will be to lead, motivate and develop the staff group and to ensure a consistent, methodical and pedagogical approach to each citizen.

Your tasks include, among others

• Daily personnel management, motivation and staff development.
• Shift planning and handling of employment relations.
• Visible leadership with a focus on well-being, professionalism and collaboration.
• Ensuring high quality in the pedagogical and health care approach.
• Individual and joint competence development within the staff group.
• Implementation and retention of common methods, approaches and procedures.
• Ensuring adequate documentation, including status reports to authorities.
• Responsibility for daily operations and quality in the department.
• Close collaboration with municipal authorities, placing municipalities, the Social Supervisory Authority and other relevant partners.
• Ability to create coherence between daily practice, professional quality and written documentation. At the same time, you must ensure constructive collaboration with both staff, municipalities, relatives and other actors around the individual citizen.

A driving license and own car are a prerequisite for performing the position.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with solid leadership experience and practical experience with the target group of children or adults with developmental disabilities and autism.

We envisage that you

• Have a social or pedagogical education.
• Have experience with personnel management and professional development.
• Have practical experience with citizens with psychiatric challenges and self-harming behavior.
• Preferably have experience from the residential care sector.
• Are good at generating followership, motivating staff and setting a clear professional direction.
• Can translate professional methods and procedures into everyday practice.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Work systematically and have an eye for quality in documentation.
• Thrive in close collaboration with municipal advisers and other professionals.
• Understand the importance of good cooperation with the citizens' relatives.
• Are a clear and approachable leader who can create an overview in a complex daily life and at the same time maintain focus on both staff well-being and citizens' individual needs.

We offer

At Carelink Shielded Housing you will be part of an organization in development, where professionalism, integrity and commitment are central values.

We offer

• A workplace with skilled and engaged colleagues at all levels.
• A professionally strong environment with high ambitions.
• Opportunities for professional supervision and ongoing competence development.
• A cross-disciplinary leadership community with opportunities for sparring and collaboration.
• A varied daily life with professional and managerial challenges.
• A meaningful job where you help create the best possible conditions for the citizens we are responsible for.

About Carelink Shielded Housing

Carelink Shielded Housing is part of Carelink Group, which provides welfare services in areas including health, employment, social services and elderly care.

Carelink Shielded Housing is part of Carelink Residences, which operates supervision-approved residential care for children, youths and adults.

Our view of people is based on the belief that all people have value and resources, but that the path to developing and utilizing them is individual.

Our values are

• We respect each other and the task.
• We find solutions.
• We do things properly.

Application and contact

If you can see yourself in the position and are motivated to create professional quality, stable operations and good conditions for both staff and citizens, we look forward to hearing from you.

We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, and the position is to be filled as soon as possible.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact

Jeppe Hassel-Pflugh, Area Manager

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 28 70 23 83

Application deadline

30 October 2026