Head of Department for 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 stand at the forefront of employees who every day create good framework conditions 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 conditions for a coherent 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. This requires an overview, decisiveness, and a leadership style in which you both listen and set direction.

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

A strong leadership community and good conditions for the task

You will become part of a leadership community with the course supervisor and three department head colleagues across the Service for Children and Adults with Deafblindness and Hearing Loss. You will collaborate on leadership, professional quality, and operations and share responsibility for a well-functioning organisation.

Planethuset is open 24/7. Therefore, clear communication and continuity across shifts and functions is an important part of the leadership task.

You will receive support from a staff member with coordinating functions across the four departments. The role handles, among other things, operational tasks and gives you a better opportunity to prioritise leadership and development.

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

What you bring

We are looking for a leader who builds trust, takes responsibility, and can unite the staff around a common direction.

You do not need experience from a similar offering. On the other hand, you should be eager to learn about the specialized field and working with people with hearing loss.

It is a clear advantage if you have knowledge of or experience with sign language, as it is a central part of communication with both residents and deaf staff.

We expect that you

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

You must be close to practice and at the same time able to look up toward 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 the employees' knowledge and initiative should have space.

Leadership responsibility in the Special Sector

As a leader in the North Jutland Region's Special Sector you will have a clearly defined responsibility based on the region's leadership framework. It clarifies 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 help ensure that every person who uses our services gets 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 the Special Sector's Corporate Foundation.

We expect you to act in the organisation in accordance with the North Jutland Region's leadership foundation.

We offer you

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

We see leadership as a special professional discipline. You will have good conditions for leadership and development, including through a clear strategy, close sparring with the course supervisor and department head colleagues, and ongoing competence development.

And we give you a thorough onboarding. Before your first day, you will receive a plan for your onboarding, and you will also be assigned a mentor so you get off to a good start.

About us

Planethuset is a housing and respite care facility for 13 young people and adults from 16 years with hearing loss and additional functional impairments. The facility is established under the Child Act § 43, para. 1, no. 6, cf. para. 3, as well as the Social Services Act §§ 107 and 108.

The department belongs to the Service for Children and Adults with Deafblindness and Hearing Loss, one of four highly specialized services in the Area of Communication and Special Pedagogy, which is part of the Special Sector of the North Jutland Region. Together with the other services and functions in our area, we are part of a nationwide holistic service for children, youth, and adults. In total we offer schooling, housing, respite care, treatment, specialized 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, the Planethouse for Adults with Deafblindness, on Facebook/Deafblindness and Hearing Loss and on Instagram: @doevblindhedoghoeretab.

If you want to see more about the Special Sector and meet some of your approximately 1,500 potential future colleagues, you can take a look here: About making a career in the Special Sector (rn.dk).

Read more about the Special Sector and more about the North Jutland Region.

Learn more about deafblindness at the knowledge portal dovblindhed.dk

The practical

Planethuset is located at Kollegievej 5, 9000 Aalborg.

The working hours average 37 hours per week, mainly 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 default, to be physically present at Planethuset when you are working.

Start date: December 1, 2026 or as soon as possible

Application deadline: October 31, 2026

First interview: November 3, 2026

Second interview: November 5, 2026

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

Social educators

Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement for social educational staff at residential institutions, etc., entered into with the Social Educators.

Nurses/Physiotherapist therapists

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

If you want to know more…

… you are welcome to contact course supervisor Trine Johansen at tel. 22 65 92 56, during 8-16 on weekdays or email [email protected].

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

Application deadline: October 31, 2026

Department: Kollegievej 1 9000 Aalborg

Location: Special Sector