Professional Beacon for the Unit for Authority and Intake in Slagelse

Created

06.10.2026

Application deadline

23.10.2026

Employment date

01.12.2026

Employment terms

37 hours

Workplace

Slagelse Municipality Torvegade 15, 4200 Slagelse

Contact person

Unit Manager Helle Pernille Sell Madsen 30 51 27 32

We are in the process of strengthening and developing the specialized social area for adults and are therefore looking for you as our future professional coordinator in Authority and Intake.

We are looking for you in particular, who wants to make a difference for citizens and who sets a high standard for professionalism in the authority area.

The position is full-time, and you will have influence on the content of the position and opportunities for personal development in interaction with the unit manager, team leader and the rest of the department.

The tasks are diverse and include professional leadership and sparring, teaching tasks within the specialized adult area, and being the driving force for the professional development in the authority area. This requires your professional expertise and that, as a professional, you can encompass the specialized adult area broadly.

Who we are

Center for Handicap and Psychiatry is undergoing a major transformation of the entire center in collaboration with our municipal provider.

Center for Handicap and Psychiatry, Authority and Intake consists of about 60 employees including a unit manager, a team leader for Intake, a team leader for Authority, the other professional coordinators in the unit, a jurist and an administrative coordinator.

Intake consists of about 14 employees who work closely with Authority.

Authority consists of 3 teams: Handicap, Psychiatry/vulnerable and Team BPA/§100 with a total of 32 advisors.

As a professional coordinator you have organizational anchoring in the Unit Administration, reporting to the unit manager of Authority and Intake.

We have just completed a development program in collaboration with the Danish Appeals Board (Ankestyrelsen) and the National Board of Health (Socialstyrelsen) regarding quality assurance of case processing in the department. As a professional coordinator you will play a significant role in further developing and maintaining good methods in close collaboration with management and the unit's other professional coordinators and our jurist.

About the job

You must be strong in your authority role, have an overview, and be structured.

At the same time, you must be a strong communicator with a learning-oriented perspective both towards the adviser group and towards partners. You must be able to navigate all areas within the specialized adult area, and it will be an advantage if you have an interest in or knowledge of the specialized area for disability services with compensation services under § 100 and BPA - User-driven Personal Assistance.

In daily operations you will act in immediate problem solving and provide sparring and supervision regarding each advisor's task solution.

You should also be able to teach the advisory group as a whole and plan training, e.g. in VUM 2.0 or other subject-relevant knowledge.

Primary tasks

• to support the handling of case processing in accordance with the Authority's principles for good case processing
• form partnerships in particularly difficult case processes as sparring partners
• continue to develop colleagues' and your own professional competencies in the authority area by staying up to date on relevant legislation, quality and development projects, professional literature, etc.
• ensure collaboration across all teams in the department and engage in cross-cutting collaborations with other centers
• perform management oversight in collaboration with the team leader/jurist
• ensure the preparation and updating of quality standards, guidelines, professional standards, annual planning cycle and a handbook and ensure that the material is used in daily work
• manage a smaller number of cases as needed

We offer you

• good colleagues and a workplace with focus on community and job satisfaction
• a ambitious department that wants to develop and raise the quality of our core task
• a challenging and responsible job with professional challenges
• great influence on the organization of daily work
• a workplace with strong drive, curiosity and a focus on learning
• a new department where you help build the department and a new culture
• a workplace centrally located in Slagelse Municipality with parking possibilities and close to the station

Who you are – profile

You

• are educated social worker / social mediator with a strong social-political or legal foundation, which can be translated into authority work
• have a flair for working with employees with a high degree of independence and professional pride
• work structured and have a well-developed overview
• are good at giving constructive and affirming sparring
• are decisive, goal-oriented and good at making decisions

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms are set in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and based on the principles of local wage formation.

Please note that you must obtain a criminal record certificate before the employment can take place.

Start no later than December 1, 2026.

Want to know more

If you are interested in learning more about the position or the department, you are welcome to contact

• Unit Manager Helle Pernille Sell Madsen, telephone 30 51 27 32 or
• Team Leader Louise Sommer, telephone 23 62 08 04

Slagelse Municipality views diversity as an asset and people's differences as a resource. Therefore, all ages, genders, race, religion or ethnic origin are encouraged to apply.

Application deadline

• we look forward to receiving your application no later than 23 October 2026

We expect to conduct interviews in week 44.

We hope you have become curious about the position as a professional beacon / professional coordinator, and we look forward to hearing from you!