Family Care and Support in Aarhus Municipality is seeking a placement consultant

Are you also passionate about making a difference for placed children and young people? – then this might be just the right opportunity for you to become a placement consultant in Aarhus Municipality.

We have two vacancies as placement consultants to be filled on 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

As a placement consultant you will take on a role where one day the pace can be high and fast, and on other days require deep engagement, where you familiarize yourself with the needs and challenges of the child/young person so you can make the right match. The children and young people we place in external placements often have complex challenges or have previously been placed in other types of services before a placement outside Aarhus Municipality. You will not be matching to family foster care.

You will solve tasks both independently and as part of a team and in close collaboration with the social workers, coordinators and managers.

For success in the position you must be able to navigate and create cohesion and dialogue in the around-the-clock area between authorities and providers. The consultant’s overall task is to help develop the close collaboration that ensures quality, continuity and stability for the child/young person through the placement.

Your tasks will be

• to match children and youths with external placements in municipal, regional and private children and youth homes
• to match primarily youths in cases with UKN (criminality and substance abuse), including to entirely or partially secured institutions
• to match children and youths with functional impairments to both 24-hour facilities and support stays.
• to oversee the execution of the placement together with the social worker and participate in admission and follow-up with the child/young person and the parents
• to negotiate contracts and terms at the start of the placement and ongoing during the placement as needed
• to collaborate with internal entities, including PPR, around-the-clock advisor, schools etc. so that the administrative and financial framework for the placement is secured

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• to take on the on-call duty for acute cases. This is shared among colleagues in the team and in close collaboration with both the joint emergency on-call and coordinators in the authority
• to be a sparring partner for social workers, leaders and other stakeholders in the field
• to handle the proactive, initial contact with external providers and maintain the existing partnerships

Not least there is a substantial task in negotiating contracts and terms and renegotiating contracts with the placement site when the support needs change. It is a central task for placement consultants to be able to negotiate with both regional and private offerings so that we always have the best possible solution at the right price.

It is desirable that you are familiar with and experienced in contract negotiations and that you are confident in speaking about economy and social work in the same sentence.

We expect that you

• have a basic education as a social worker/educator/teacher and relevant continuing education.
• have experience in providing guidance and supervision.
• are familiar with placement of children and youths in foster families.
• can convey pedagogical methods to support foster families.
• have administrative flair and IT skills as well as good writing abilities.
• are familiar with the Child’s Act and the professional collaboration surrounding a placed child.
• have good collaboration skills and easily interact with many different partners
• take responsibility for your own learning and can work independently and in a structured manner.
• thrive in a daily life with many complex problems.
• are challenging from your own perspective and curious about others, based on a mentalizing development perspective
• have a driving license, as there is a lot of driving across the country

About Family Foster Care and Support

Team Placement Consultants is anchored in the Department of Family Foster Care and Support, which is part of the Center for Support and Well-being. We work closely with our colleagues from the authority in the Center for Children, Youth and Families. We are based in Blixens in Brabrand and are organizationally and managerially anchored together with Family Foster Care, Strengthened Family Foster Care and Team Companionship.

We offer you

• a varied and exciting daily life within a highly specialized area, where you continuously develop yourself
• a workplace with room to breathe and space for humor and diversity.
• a workplace focused on the individual employee’s competencies.
• a work environment with responsible colleagues at a high professional level and great ambitions for our core tasks.
• varied, complex and creative work in collaboration with many partners.
• a good, social community across the department and the MSB as a whole
• supervision

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and terms of employment will be in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. Final salary setting is decided after negotiation with the union having negotiating rights based on qualifications.

The position will be paid according to the collective agreement with DS/HK/SL.

Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting department head Birthe Møller Johansen at telephone 4185 9098.

Application

We look forward to reading your application about why you want to be employed with us.

Applications for positions in Aarhus Municipality are submitted electronically. Click on “Search for jobs” below to fill out and send your application. All fields marked with * must be filled in. Only after you have received a confirmation by email have we received your application.

The application deadline is Monday 16 November at 23:59.

Interviews are expected to be held Monday 23 November, afternoon

A possible second interview will be held Thursday 26 November, morning

More about Family Foster Care and Support

Family Foster Care and Support is part of the Center for Support and Well-being, which carries out preventive, intensive and therapeutic interventions, interaction with placed children and youths, support stays for both general and specialized areas and acute placement in Aarhus Municipality's internal services for 0 to 17 years.

We work closely together within the operating area to strengthen work for the benefit of the children and their families. This means that we prioritize, develop and invest in professional initiatives that put the child first and support and ensure children’s opportunities to engage in learning contexts and provide access to supportive and meaningful communities.

We shall support that all children thrive and learn as much as they can and show courage to try new paths, both inside and outside the organization, based on the core task. Organizationally, the operating area Children, Families, and Communities is placed in the Mayor’s Department for Social Affairs and Employment.

Relational Welfare

In the 2023 budget agreement it was decided that the collaboration between the family, day care, school, PPR (pedagogical psychological counseling), authority advisers and providers/specialized services in the Mayor’s Department for Social Affairs and Employment shall be changed and strengthened. Solutions shall be found earlier, and the effort shall become even more holistic and as close to the child’s and family’s everyday life as possible. There are cross-disciplinary teams in all 47 school districts. Read more here: Relationell velfærd (aarhus.dk)

About Aarhus Municipality

Aarhus Municipality is Jutland’s largest workplace. 28,000 professional and passionate colleagues work every day to ensure that we are a city for everyone. As an employee of Aarhus Municipality you turn visions into reality and create development, community and well-being. Here there is respect for professionalism, room for diversity and opportunity to grow. We have ambitions for the city – and for you. Come and be part of it!

Leadership and employee roles

In the attached link you will find the common Leadership and employee roles in Aarhus Municipality:

https://aarhus.dk/job/den-attraktive-arbejdsplads/

The common leadership and employee roles give a view of the expectations placed on you when you as a leader or employee in Aarhus Municipality shall solve the common core task. By making visible the expectations placed – whether you are a leader or an employee – we hope that together we can maintain a good working environment, an attractive workplace and a culture of credibility, respect and engagement.