Fårupgård Ungecenter seeks a new social worker

Are you passionate about making a difference for young people, and are you motivated to put your professional expertise to use close to the youths and in the space between pedagogy and social work?

At Fårupgård Youth Center we are looking for a professionally strong and structured social worker who can help create coherence around each young person's placement.

You will play a central role in the collaboration between the young person, our departments and the placing municipalities. You will help ensure that plans, agreements, documentation and authority requirements are aligned with the treatment and daily life we create for the young person.

About the job

At Fårupgård, youths live with complex social, psychiatric and behavioral problems. Some youths also have challenges related to crime and substances. What they have in common is the need for a coherent and individually tailored effort where relationships, treatment, school, authorities and networks must work together. As a social worker you will be an important part of this work.

You will take on a coordinating and supportive role around the youths’ placement processes, and you will as a rule be Fårupgård’s primary contact with the authorities. You need to create an overview of the official relationships around each youth and support a close and professional collaboration with the placing municipality. The work is carried out in close cooperation with department heads, pedagogical staff, the other social worker and Fårupgård’s other professionals.

An important part of your work will be to follow up on the child’s plan, youth plans, contact decisions and other agreements and decisions regarding the youth. You will also be an important contributor to work with status descriptions, social-work assessments and documentation, where you coordinate processes, ensure quality and support employees’ written work. An important part of this work will be to support a process in which the youth is heard and involved in their own case. The youth must feel that they are the central focus of their own case.

Part of your work will also consist of handling reporting of use of force, intake of new youths and admission and discharge processes. In addition you will provide social-work and legal sparring to both staff and management and contribute to teaching and professional development in areas such as documentation, status descriptions and relevant legislation. It requires that you can navigate confidently in legislation and authority requirements, but also that you can convey the complex in a way that makes sense for both youths and colleagues.

Who are you?

You are a trained social worker with a solid social-work foundation. We would like you to have experience from the authority area, the 24-hour care sector or work with vulnerable children and youths.

You have a good knowledge of the law in the children and youth field and are focused on converting rules and authority requirements into practice that supports work with the youths. You are strong in writing, work systematically with documentation and can maintain an overview in a daily life where tasks and priorities sometimes change.

You should also be able to engage professionally in many different collaborative relationships. You must be able to stand clearly in your own social-work professionalism while being curious about other professions. We place emphasis on you taking responsibility, following through on your tasks and being willing to share your knowledge through sparring, guidance and teaching.

And you must have a driving license.

About Fårupgård

Fårupgård Youth Center is a specialized offering for children and youths with complex social, behavioral and psychiatric issues.

We work from a mentalizing-based approach and with low arousal as an important professional starting point. Our ambition is to create environments that support the youths’ safety, well-being and development.

Our core task is

”Together we create value and development with our youths”

For us this means, among other things, that we work together on the task and involve the youths in decisions about their everyday life, development and well-being.

Fårupgård consists of six departments with different target groups as well as an internal school. As a social worker you will therefore work across and interact with different professionalities and social-work related issues.

We offer you

You will have a position with broad social-work scope and good opportunities to actively bring your social worker expertise into play.

You will become part of a workplace where collaboration between different professional fields is crucial, and where you occupy a central position between the youths, staff, management and the placing municipalities.

We offer a structured orientation program with a mentor in the first part of the employment, engaged and experienced colleagues, and a workplace focused on professional development, reflection and collaboration.

You will also have the opportunity to help shape and further develop the quality of the social-work practices at Fårupgård.

Employment terms

The position is 37 hours per week with primary workplace at Fårupgård Youth Center, Fårupgårdvej 5 in Jelling.

Start date: February 1, 2027

Application deadline

November 30, 2026

Want to know more?

You are welcome to contact

Headmaster Claus Hejlskov Jørgensen at tel. 30 65 21 99

You can also read more about us at www.faarupgaard.vejle.dk

Information about starting salary

We can tell you that you will be salary-placed according to the collective agreement for social workers and social mediators (30.31). Salary determination is made according to §3-7 on base salary, functional pay, qualification pay and performance pay. The base salary starts at 33,667 DKK per month for full-time exclusive of pension and falls within the range of 33,667 DKK to 37,701 DKK.

It is noted that the final salary placement, including the collective agreement basis and salary level, is set based on your education, qualifications, experience and the specific offered position.

Certificates

We will obtain a child certificate as well as an official criminal record with consent.

Submit your application

We prefer that you apply online by using the "Send application" button. Remember to attach your application and CV as well as other relevant documents.

Once you have submitted the application, you will receive an email as receipt.

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Vejle Municipality encourages everyone to apply for the position regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, disability, etc.

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