Family therapist sought for the Family Workshop

We are expanding with an additional family therapist position

Are you passionate about working with children, youths and their families?

Can you see yourself working with challenges in the relationship and interaction between the parents – and/or other significant adults – and the child?

It is important that you have a focus on the child's needs and can support the parents in developing and strengthening their parenting skills, so they can create safe and development-supportive environments for the child's well-being and development.

You must be able to engage in long-term, intensive family treatment work, and you will work both at the Family Workshop and in the families' homes.

Om Familieværkstedet The Family Workshop at Ishøjgård is part of the overall preventive effort in Ishøj Municipality, and we work with family treatment and counseling.

We also offer early preventive family interventions, group programs with various themes, and open anonymous counseling for the municipality's families with children aged 0–18 years.

Our tasks also include practical pedagogical support as well as supported and supervised contact.

We have about 120 families involved in shorter or longer programs, and you will experience working alone or in partnerships with the families.

There is also cross-disciplinary work around the families in collaboration with both the family's close network and the professional network around the family. We have a particularly close collaboration with family counselors.

Vores faglige tilgang At the Family Workshop we are 11 family consultants with various professional and theoretical backgrounds.

We work from an eclectic methodological approach, drawing on different theoretical understandings and methods, including the systemic and narrative foundations. Family treatment always takes its starting point in the individual family's needs, resources and challenges, and we incorporate the methods that best support the family's development.

Emphasis is placed on planning and carrying out family treatment with a conscious theoretical and methodological focus.

The child is always at the center of our work, with particular focus on the relationship and interaction between the child and the significant adults. We work resource-oriented with particular emphasis on the importance of relationships.

Vores faglige fællesskab We place high value on our professional community and enjoy spending time together. We use each other for sparring and care that it should be a natural part of our work to be able to talk about the difficult aspects of our work.

As part of the Family Workshop you should also be interested in joining a group with colleagues who support each other, enjoy laughing together, and take responsibility for the community and the shared professional development.

Vi forventer, at du

• Har en relevant pædagogisk grunduddannelse eller tilsvarende.
• Har efteruddannelse som familieterapeut eller lignende inden for den systemiske referenceramme, gerne suppleret med enten småbørnskonsulentuddannelse, Marte Meo, MIM, Theraplay eller lignende.
• Har erfaring i arbejdet med forældre-barn-tilknytning generelt.
• Har erfaring med familiebehandlingsarbejde i kommunalt regi.
• Har erfaring i at arbejde med sager med høj grad af kompleksitet, hvor der er mange samarbejdspartnere om en sag.
• Har erfaring med samtaleterapi og med samspil via familieøvelser med forældre og børn.
• Det er et plus hvis du har erfaring med længerevarende skolefravær eller viden om diagnoser.
• Udviser fleksibel tilgang til opgaven og har stor ansvarlighed.
• Kan formulere dig på skrift og i tale samt har forståelse for betydningen af denne formidling.

Vi tilbyder

• Mulighed for at være med til at udvikle og tænke nyt i forhold til familiebehandlingsarbejdet.
• En personalegruppe, som er optaget af faglig udvikling.
• Ekstern supervision ca. hver 4. uge.
• En velfungerende kollegial gruppe, som vægter sparring og fællesskab højt, og hvor stemningen er god.
• Indflydelse på egen arbejdstid og tilrettelæggelse heraf. Du kan påregne, at nogle af arbejdsopgaverne er placeret uden for almindelig arbejdstid og i weekender.
• Hyggelige fysiske omgivelser.
• Mulighed for tilmelding til madordning i vores økologiske Madhus.

Medledelse på Ishøjgård Over the last years, we have worked to create a co-managed organization where employees have a high degree of professional autonomy. We have very good experiences with decisions being made by those closest to the task, and therefore we also place particular emphasis on ensuring all employees experience a high degree of self-determination, that everyone feels competent regarding their tasks, and that everyone experiences a strong sense of belonging to our work community.

As an employee at Ishøjgård, you are expected to work within the framework and take responsibility for our four organizational cornerstones:

• We must have a healthy working environment.
• We must take responsibility for the development of our children's and families' development.
• We must have a balanced economy.
• We must document the impact of our work.

Praktiske oplysninger This is one full-time position at 37 hours per week.

The position is to be filled by January 1, 2027, and interviews will be held on December 7, 2026.

For further information you can contact

• Acting professional leader of the Family Workshop, Ditte Frerksen, at tel. 23 23 61 89.
• Director of Ishøjgård, Brian Thorny, at tel. 40 35 64 76.

Salary and terms of employment in accordance with the applicable collective agreement.

If you want to know more about Ishøjgård, you can visit us at: www.ishøjgård.dk

Applications and relevant attachments should be sent via the "Apply for the position" field at the bottom of the page.

Application deadline: December 2, 2026 at 12:00

Interviews will be held at Ishøjgård, Ishøj Søndergade 13, 2635 Ishøj.