Head of Department at Planethuset – a highly specialized residential facility for young people and adults with hearing loss

Can you combine strategic overview with clear and present leadership? And would you lead staff who every day create good frameworks for young people and adults with hearing loss?

Then you may be our new Department Head at Planethuset.

You will be responsible for a highly specialized residential facility, where you must ensure stable operations, high professional quality and good conditions for both residents and employees.

Your task as Department Head

You will be responsible for the daily operations and personnel management of about 20 employees. You must create the framework for a cohesive effort based on the residents' needs and the employees' competencies. Sign language is the residents' primary communication form, and there are also deaf employees. Therefore, knowledge of sign language is an advantage.

You must translate strategic goals into concrete practice, prioritise between acute needs and long-term tasks and make decisions, even when everyday life is complex. It requires an overview, decisiveness and a leadership style where you both listen and set direction.

You also have responsibility for good collaboration with municipalities, relatives, guardians and other partners. Here you must be able to gather different perspectives with respect for residents' needs, rights and development opportunities.

A strong leadership community and good frameworks for the task

You will become part of a leadership community with the service manager and three departmental head colleagues across Services for Children and Adults with Deafblindness and Hearing Loss. In sparring about leadership, professional quality and operations and take joint responsibility for a well-functioning organisation.

Planethuset is open around the clock. Therefore, clear communication and continuity across shifts and functions are an important part of the leadership task.

You will receive support from an employee with coordinating functions across the four departments. The function handles, among other things, operations-related tasks and gives you a better opportunity to prioritise leadership and development.

In addition, you will be part of a broader professional community in the Area of Communication and Special Education as well as in the Special Sector. Here you will have the opportunity to contribute with your experiences and draw inspiration across specialised services.

What you bring with you

We are looking for a leader who creates trust, takes responsibility and can bring staff together around a common direction.

You do not need to have experience from a similar service. On the other hand, you must be willing to learn the specialized field and the work with people with hearing loss.

It is clearly advantageous if you have knowledge of or experience with sign language, as it is a completely central part of communication with both residents and deaf employees.

We expect that you

• Have management experience and are comfortable with personnel leadership, including setting frameworks, following up, giving feedback and handling difficult conversations.
• Ensure overview and stable operations and can prioritise when everyday life is unpredictable.
• Can translate strategic goals into clear daily priorities.
• Collaborate constructively with staff, residents, relatives, guardians, municipalities and other partners.
• Are responsive, but can stand firm and make difficult decisions.
• Actively work for high professional quality, well-being and psychological safety.
• Contribute to the leadership community with sparring, knowledge sharing and shared responsibility.
• Communicate clearly and properly, even when decisions are difficult.

You must be close to practice and at the same time able to lift your gaze to the service's overall development.

You do not need to know everything yourself. You must be curious, ask questions and know when you should lead and when staff knowledge and initiative should have space.

Leadership responsibility in Special Sector

As a leader in Region Nordjylland's Special Sector you have a clearly defined responsibility based on the region's leadership framework. It clarifies the expectations for you and for your leadership colleagues at the other leadership levels.

See what this means for you as Department Head here: Leadership Responsibility.

As a leader in the Special Sector you contribute to our mission and vision

Our mission is to enable every person who uses our services to have the best possible conditions to master their own life

The vision is that we will be the municipalities' preferred partner and supplier of specialized services.

Read more in Special Sector's Corporate Foundation .

We expect you to act in the organization in accordance with Region Nordjylland's Leadership Foundation.

We offer you

With us you don't just get any old management job. You get a strong professional community and colleagues who are passionate about what they do. You will become part of a dedicated leadership team where we actively support each other and take the work environment seriously, even when it comes to long shifts.

We see leadership as a special professional discipline. You get good frameworks for leadership and development, including through a clear strategy, close sparring with the service manager and department head colleagues, as well as ongoing competence development.

And we give you a thorough onboarding process. Before the first day of work you will receive a plan for your onboarding, just as you will be assigned a mentor so you get off to a good start.

About us

Planethuset is a residential and respite service for 13 young people and adults from 16 years with hearing loss and additional functional impairments. The service is established under Barnets lov § 43, stk. 1, no. 6, cf. stk. 3, as well as the Social Services Act §§ 107 and 108.

The department belongs to Services for Children and Adults with Deafblindness and Hearing Loss, which is one of four highly specialized services in the Area of Communication and Special Pedagogy, located in Region Nordjylland's Special Sector. Together with the other services and functions in our area, we are part of a nationwide holistic offer to children, adolescents and adults. Together we offer education, housing, respite, treatment, occupational guidance and activity and social opportunities.

Read more about us on our website: https://tbvdh.rn.dk/

You can also meet us and our sister service Residential Service for Adults with Deafblindness at Facebook/Deafblindness and Hearing Loss and on Instagram: @doevblindhedoghoeretab .

If you want to see more about the Special Sector and meet some of your approx. 1500 potential colleagues, you can take a look here: About building a career in the Special Sector (rn.dk).

Read more about Special Sector and more about Region Nordjylland.

Learn more about deafblindness at the knowledge portal dovblindhed.dk

The practical

Planethuset is located at Kollegievej 5, 9000 Aalborg.

Working hours are on average 37 hours per week, primarily during daytime on weekdays. However, you must plan your work so that you also have contact with employees on other shifts.

There may also be meetings and special events outside normal daytime hours, including with relatives.

You are expected as a general rule to be physically present at Planethuset when you work.

Start date: 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible

Application deadline: 31 October 2026

First interview: 3 November 2026

Second interview: 5 November 2026

Salary and employment terms are set according to the applicable collective agreement in the area, depending on the applicant's professional background.

Social Pedagogues

Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement for social-pedagogical staff at residential institutions etc. entered into with the Social Pedagogues.

Nurses / Psychomotor Therapists

Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement for leaders in the Health Cartel area entered into with the relevant organisations.

Social Worker

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

Physiotherapists / Occupational Therapists

Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement for leaders in the Danish Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Midwives associations area entered into with the relevant organisation.

If you want to know more…

… you are welcome to contact service manager Trine Johansen on tel. 22 65 92 56 during 8-16 on weekdays or by email [email protected] .

You are also welcome to call and arrange a coffee meeting to get a sense of us.