Family Department seeks 1 Child and Youth Adviser for the Disability Team

Middelfart Municipality's Family Department is seeking 1 child and youth advisor for the handicap team's team for children 0 - 13 years with disabilities.

Are you engaged in working with young people in a complex life situation? Do you have a strong commitment to creating trusting relationships and offering competent support to families? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the Handicap Team: The Handicap Team is part of Middelfart Municipality's Family Department, and we work purposefully with authority tasks for children and young people with disabilities aged 0-18 and their families. A large part of the department's tasks consists of assessing the need for disability-compensating benefits and involving the children, their parents and their networks.

The Handicap Team works with both the Social Services Act and the Children's Act regarding disability-compensating benefits, including additional expenses and lost earning potential, and supportive interventions.

As a child and youth advisor you will become part of the handicap team, which, like you, is passionate about the target group. In the Handicap Team we allocate cases according to competence and knowledge areas, and therefore there is plenty of opportunity to influence your own caseload. The target group in the handicap team primarily consists of children and young people with various forms of disability.

About us: In the Handicap Team we meet families with a curious, open and acknowledging approach. We see the child/young person and the parents as the experts on their own lives, and we highly value their perspectives. We strive to create a trust-building space, where we together with the family can explore and listen to their story. With respect for the boundaries of the law, we think creatively and offer counseling, support and help that can contribute to a dignified life for the child/young person.

Your role: As a child and youth advisor you will be responsible for ensuring close and coordinated collaboration with children in the age group 0 – 13 years and their families. A central part of your work will be to create clear and understandable communication pathways, so families feel heard and involved in the case handling. You will focus on actively involving both the child and the parents in the collaboration and in the decisions that are made.

As a child and youth advisor in the Handicap Team you will be part of a dedicated and academically strong team, where we collaborate to ensure the best possible support for families. With us you will work with close and coordinated cooperation with families and at the same time focus on creating good well-being in the team.

We place emphasis on you

• are educated social worker or social mediator.
• have experience with authorities work and preferably experience/knowledge within the area of children and youths with disabilities.
• in conversations with families work to create change, open up new perspectives and address difficult topics.
• work inclusively, motivating and acknowledging with families, and can contribute to job satisfaction and well-being in the team/department.
• can maintain an overview and achieve results in a busy everyday life, and can work independently, systematically and holistically.
• can use legal rules, guidelines, principled decisions and practice studies in your work and take shared responsibility for a high level of professionalism in the team/department.
• are good at collaboration and see interdisciplinary work as a strength.
• contribute to your own learning and development
• have a driver's license (municipal cars are available)

We offer

• An independent job where you have the opportunity to apply your competencies and create value for families.
• A good working environment with colleagues who have humor and thrive in a professionally strong team.
• Ongoing professional and personal development.
• A mentoring scheme in the first 3 months of employment.
• Supervision and opportunity for further education.
• Work tools such as a laptop and a mobile phone.
• Salary according to the applicable collective agreement and the new pay agreement.
• A full-time position at 37 hours per week, with start no later than December 1, 2026.

About Middelfart Municipality: In Middelfart Municipality we work from the vision “From Middelfart child to citizen of the world”, which entails a strong focus on giving children and young people equal opportunities for a life in motion. Our goal is to create equal chances for children and young people across risk factors, so they can achieve competencies and well-being as world citizens.

Application: Are you the one we are looking for? Send your application with CV as well as diploma and relevant references no later than October 18, 2026 . The hiring interviews will be held on October 21 and 22, 2026 .

For further information you can contact Team Leader Jonna Christoffersen at 40321480 or TR Anja Jürs at 30331749.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Join our dedicated team and help make a difference!

Middelfart Municipality would like to be known for an attractive and flexible workplace with a healthy work environment, good leadership and many opportunities for development. Based on our life phase policy, we will do our best to meet your wishes and needs. We are a municipality where there is little distance from idea to action. You can read more about our workplace at job.middelfart.dk

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