Fantastic opportunity for a skilled social worker – Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Ward develops and scales up

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We are seeking a skilled and experienced social worker for our inpatient ward, who will also be involved in the development of an intensive outpatient team under the ward. Increasing the number of beds, more children and adolescents in intensive outpatient programmes under and the opening of the region's Youth Home Bifrost, which calls for close and committed cross-sector collaboration, means that we now need an extra social worker. If this sounds like something for you, if you are focused on this target group and enjoy contributing to good collaboration both internally and externally, please read on.

Your tasks as a social worker in the inpatient ward reflect that we work with young people, children and families whose psychiatric disorders and psychosocial conditions are complex and require that both understanding of them and the work with them is interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral.

Typical social worker tasks include participation in conversations with children, youths and their families/networks, identifying social work aspects in connection with assessment processes and not least ensuring coordination with municipalities, residences and other actors as well as facilitating and leading network meetings together with other professional groups in the inpatient ward.

As a social worker in the inpatient ward you are thus an important actor in the work of bridging the health system and the municipalities' social administration, PPR, UU-guides, placement places and other actors.

Finally you will be an important actor in the development and coordination of an intensive outpatient team that under the inpatient ward follows youths – also outside hospitalization – with close and extensive interventions from both child/adolescent psychiatry and from the primary sector, e.g. in the form of placement.

About you

• Educated social worker, preferably with experience with the child and youth sector in psychiatric and/or municipal settings
• Thrives in a development and learning environment across disciplines
• Possesses good cooperation skills, an interest in interdisciplinary collaboration and the ability to convey information in a matter-of-fact way.
• Thrives in a daily routine with varying tasks, where there can be both acute and more planned tasks with administrative duties, social work counselling and guidance as well as coordination of interventions
• Masters clear and explicit communication, both written and spoken
• Has the ability and willingness to work in a reflective environment
• Can manage independent planning of tasks and maintain an overview

We offer

• Work in a ward that is both development-oriented and ambitious, where we aim for professional development and competence building
• A variety of tasks
• Close teamwork across disciplines, departments and organizations
• Professional sparring and development
• Good onboarding at start and opportunity for ongoing sparring about the tasks
• Good working conditions, a good work environment and an informal but respectful interaction in an engaged team

About the Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Ward

The inpatient ward has 12 beds, of which 4 are in a secured unit. The beds are used by children and adolescents aged 12-17 years requiring treatment and/or assessment, both acute and planned. The Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Ward shares ward management with the inpatient unit for eating disorders, which creates opportunities for flexible and good patient pathways as well as collaborative relations between the two units.

We have a close and good collaboration with the ward's other units, with other hospital departments, e.g. the pediatric department, and cross-sectorally, e.g. with municipalities, PPR, general practitioners and housing/placement facilities.

Staff in the inpatient ward include doctors, psychologists, nurses, social educators, secretaries and a few social and health care assistants. The total staff group consists of about 40 employees in milieu therapy (nurses, social educators, SOSA staff) and about 10 therapists (doctors, psychologists, social workers).

The joint ward management for the two inpatient units consists of a dual leadership comprised of the Chief Physician and the Chief Nurse.

About the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department in general

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a specialty at the heart of political attention, both locally in the North Jutland Region and nationally. We therefore look forward to a future where we together develop Denmark's best Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – this requires professionalism, innovative thinking and not least a focus on cross-sector task solving. In the coming years there will be rapid development and specialized competencies are required.

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry inpatient ward is, together with inpatient units for eating disorders, part of the overall Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which also includes the Youth Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, Child Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, Unit for Cross-Sector Development and Collaboration (TUS) and the Outpatient Clinic for Eating Disorders.

The leadership structure of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry consists of a department leadership with Chief Physician, Chief Nurse and Chief Psychologist. Outpatient clinics have dual leadership with outpatient directors and Chief Physicians, while the inpatient wards are led by the Chief Nurse and Chief Physician.

Our focus is on professionalism, good patient pathways, increased patient involvement and close collaboration with the primary sector. Our goal is to develop a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where staff continue to thrive, and where we jointly develop new ways to handle the challenges we face. If you are passionate about the psychiatric specialty and enthusiastic, we want you to help shape this development.

Working in the clinic is based on the Psychiatry's overarching values: Influence, Trust, Dignity and Professionalism (ITOP). We therefore work focused on strengthening professionalism, the cross-disciplinary collaboration internally, and the collaboration with the primary sector externally.

Want to know more

Further information can be obtained by contacting the Chief Physician in the Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Ward, Ida Marie Ziethen, at e-mail: [email protected].

Practical information

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the applicable collective agreement for social workers entered into with the Danish Association of Social Workers

In accordance with Region North Jutland’s employment procedure, criminal record and child protection checks will be obtained for employees who have contact with children and young people under 15 years of age.

There is a smoke-free work environment in Psychiatry in the North Jutland Region. This means that employees must not smoke during working hours – neither indoors nor outdoors.

We only accept applications via the link in the job advertisement. Applications sent by mail will not be considered.

Employment: 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application deadline: 23 October 2026

Expected interviews: 28 October 2026