Family Worker for Family Contact and the Family House

Daily smiles and room to breathe – will you put your professional skills to work on the family's path to change Are you interested in working with families with complex issues as well as preventive interventions? And do you want to be part of a everyday where high professionalism, creativity and collaboration are valued in close interaction with competent and caring colleagues? Can you see yourself thriving in having tasks in several departments in a split position between Family Contact and the Family House?

Then you may be our new colleague.

Family Contact is seeking a family practitioner: We are looking for a family practitioner who wants to work in a dynamic family department and can see themselves in the vision for the children and youth area in Roskilde Municipality where: all children and young people should thrive and become whole individuals, and that all children and young people have abilities and competences that they should have the opportunity to explore and develop – both individually and in collaboration with others .

The position as a permanently employed family practitioner full-time has a twofold focus, partly as a family practitioner in Family Contact and partly as a practitioner in the Family House, Welfare Contact - easily accessible treatment and STIME (Strengthened Intersectoral Initiative for the mental health of children and young people). There is an even distribution of hours between the practitioner tasks in Family Contact and in the Family House.

About Roskilde Family and Youth Center: Roskilde Family and Youth Center and Welfare Contact are part of Children and Youth in Roskilde Municipality. The Center consists of one unified center management and three departments: Family Contact, Youth Contact and 24/7 Contact – Roskilde Youth Home. As a family practitioner with us you will have your daily goings-on in Family Contact, which consists of 4 psychologists and 23 family therapists. We are committed to strong multidisciplinary collaboration – both across the center and with authorities in Children and Youth.

Family Contact is housed in the Town Hall, seven minutes' walk from Roskilde Station. We work with families with children and youths aged 0-18 years – and in some cases up to age 23. Our work is based on different theoretical and methodological approaches, all focused on existing resources and development opportunities in the children, youths and families we work with.

The Family House is in Roskilde's city center, three minutes' walk from the station. The Family House offers activities for families, children and youths 0-18 years within the early preventive and developmental field. This also includes Welfare Contact, which has the task of easily accessible treatment offers in collaboration with psychiatry.

In the collaboration interfaces for both departments we take our starting point in solution-focused underlying assumptions and methodological tools. It gives us a common language for what we shall and want to do together – both internally and in collaboration with families, authorities and other professional networks.

A good working environment and a strong professional culture

We have a good working environment in both departments and make an effort to utilize the interdisciplinary potential that exists in Roskilde Family and Youth Center. We place great emphasis on close and committed collaboration with both referring authorities and the families' private and professional networks.

With us you get great influence on planning your own work life. We meet each other with trust and openness, and we continuously work to ensure a high degree of psychological safety – both regarding task solving and everyday well-being.

We like being together, and we highly value professional reflections, humor, and collegial care.

Your tasks will include

• developmental programs with parents, children and youths.
• practical support and guidance at home.
• group-based development programs.
• preparation of status reports.
• handling acute tasks in Family Contact.
• preliminary conversations and screening interviews in Family House, Welfare Contact
• easy-to-access treatment paths in Family House, Welfare Contact

We are looking for a family therapist, who

• has a social-educational background and preferably a family therapy postgraduate education.
• has experience with family therapy, and preferably experience with intensive and complex cases
• has knowledge of, and preferably experience with, easily accessible treatment, including STIME
• has knowledge of child development, parenting, interaction and family everyday life.
• has a focus on the well-being and development potential of families, children and youths.
• can tailor development programs to the individual family and the child’s concrete needs.
• can work practically, exploratively and flexibly.
• thinks in cross-cutting solutions and can bridge between actors around a family.
• thrives in a multidisciplinary collaboration where solutions are developed together with others.
• wants to help develop new workflows and contribute to cross-learning.
• Wants to be trained in manual-based treatment programs under easily accessible treatment offers, including training as a STIME practitioner

We offer

• a workplace with engaged and professionally skilled colleagues in both Family House and in Family Contact.
• A workplace that values professional reflections as part of the qualification of the treatment work.
• an employment where a good working environment and psychological safety are seen as decisive for task solving.
• opportunity for professional development and regular supervision with external supervisor in Family Contact and internal supervision in Family House.
• a job with a great opportunity for self-organization and flexibility.
• Two lively departments with a safe community and good mood.
• opportunity to contribute to the development of early, cross-disciplinary and practice-oriented interventions for children and families.

Salary and terms of employment A permanent full-time appointment with start on January 1, 2027 or as soon as possible

Salary and terms of employment are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement, including the Ny Løn principles.

Upon employment, a child and criminal background check, as well as references, will be obtained.

The application deadline is November 15, 2026 at 23:59. If your application arouses our interest and curiosity, you can expect a call during November 17, 2026, where we invite you to an employment interview on November 20, 2026.

Do you have questions? You can read more about the municipality's child and youth policy at Child and youth policy - roskilde.dk

You are welcome to contact the head of the Family Contact department;

Heidi Krogh, mobile 2442 2393 or Head of the Family House and the easily accessible treatment offers Pernille Strøbæk, mobile 2926 4296 .