Experienced head of department sought for Carelink Sheltered Housing

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

Carelink Skærmede Boliger

Carelink Skærmede Boliger 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 is specialized within its respective target group.

The Department for Autism and Developmental Disabilities is for residents who have challenges arising from developmental disabilities and a diagnosis within the autism spectrum, and who may have challenges with outwardly directed aggression. They are in the age group 12 – 50 years.

The department consists of several sites and houses, where the individual resident lives alone in a sheltered environment. Surrounding each resident is a fixed team of pedagogical and health care staff with a staffing ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1, depending on the resident's needs.

About the job

We are seeking an experienced department head for our Department for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, primarily in Funen and Jutland.

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

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

Your responsibilities include, among others

• Daily personnel management, motivation and staff development.
• Shift planning and handling of employment relations.
• Visible leadership with focus on well-being, professionalism and collaboration.
• Ensuring high quality in the pedagogical and health-related efforts.
• Individual and joint competency 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 operation and quality in the department.
• Close collaboration with municipal authorities, placing municipalities, the Social Supervisory Authority (Socialtilsynet) 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 stakeholders around the individual resident.

A driving license and your own car are a prerequisite to perform the role.

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 educational background.
• Have experience with people management and professional development.
• Have practical experience with residents with psychiatric challenges and self-harming behavior.
• Preferably have experience from the residential care sector.
• Are good at creating 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 advisors and other professionals.
• Understand the importance of good cooperation with residents' relatives
• Are a clear and present leader who can create overview in a complex daily life while maintaining focus on both staff well-being and residents' individual needs.

We offer

At Carelink Skærmede Boliger you will become part of an organization in development where professionalism, integrity, and engagement are core values.

We offer

• An workplace with skilled and engaged colleagues at all levels.
• A professionally strong environment with high ambitions.
• Opportunity for professional supervision and ongoing competencies development.
• A multidisciplinary leadership community with opportunities for sparring and collaboration.
• A varied everyday life with professional and managerial challenges.
• A meaningful job where you help create the best possible conditions for the residents we are responsible for.

About Carelink Skærmede Boliger

Carelink Skærmede Boliger is part of Carelink Group, which provides welfare services within health, employment, social care and elderly care.

Carelink Skærmede Boliger is part of Carelink Housing, which operates supervised residential care facilities for children, youths and adults.

Our view of humanity is based on the belief that all people have value and resources, but that the path to developing and bringing these into play is individual.

Our values are

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

Application and contact

Can you see yourself in the position, and are you motivated by creating professional quality, stable operation and good conditions for both staff and residents? Then 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

October 30, 2026