Pedagogical assistants for the secured institution Egely, Nørre Åby.

We are seeking several skilled pedagogical assistants to join our working community with us on our core task:

“Children and young people at Egely experience a safe and content-rich everyday life with reliable adults”

At Egely we are in an energetic and exciting process, where we continually work to optimize our methods and workflows in shared understandings, in order to provide the best offer to children and young people in a secure setting.

We ensure a thorough introduction, a mentoring scheme and follow-rotations in the practical collaboration with experienced colleagues in the current open departments, so you are equipped with tools, methods and workflows before you take on independent task-solving with your colleagues.

If that sounds like something you would like, then hurry to send an application – we look forward to talking with you, and we invite interviews on an ongoing basis.

Egely - in short

Egely is Region of Southern Denmark’s secure 24-hour institution for youths aged 12 to 17 who are placed on legal or social grounds. We have a total of 20 places, of which 5 are in the specially secured department. There are about 60 youths admitted per year. Currently we have 2 open departments with a total of 10 places.

When Egely has all places open, we are around 80 staff – primarily educational personnel in the living units, but also psychologists, healthcare professionals, social workers, teachers and other professional groups.

The youths we work with often have complex challenges with outwardly directed behavior, criminality, substance abuse or psychiatric issues.

Our most important task is to help the youths find calm and stability so they can build new life strategies and take steps toward a better future.

All children and youths at Egely are offered schooling or daytime activities in our internal teaching house, and have their everyday and leisure life in a living unit with four other children and youths.

The youths are often placed based on complex social, psychiatry-related and behavioral challenges such as outwardly directed or criminal behavior, substance abuse and other difficulties.

Your tasks

As a pedagogical assistant at Egely you will have a meaningful and challenging everyday life, where you:

• Try out, build experience and work according to the professionally planned approaches and interventions from the professional team and the legal framework in the offer.
• Establish positive collaborative relationships with children, youths and actors in their lives and offers.
• Work with the implementation of the professional tools and methods that are imparted from courses and educational programs, and that are agreed in the team.
• Document, share knowledge and act on experiences and arising needs and tasks in the children and youths’ offers and lives.
• Collaborate professionally and loyally according to the team’s professional methods and interventions and bring competencies, reflections, feedback and knowledge into the professional team.

We are looking for you who can

• Identify educational goals from hands-on and learning placements, motivate participation and support educational activities and agreed interventions.
• Contribute your own professional competencies to the holistic offer to and collaboration with children and youths.
• Carry out targeted communication and reflect on the importance of communication in relation to the youths’ prerequisites and the agreed strategies and interventions.
• Document pedagogical work and cross-disciplinary agreed interventions concerning the child and the youth.
• Plan activities and interaction with consideration of the entire youth group’s prerequisites and needs – including incorporating the need for differentiated frameworks and support.
• Reflect, assess and coordinate professionally with colleagues in everyday practice based on the described workflows and methods.

What you get with us

• A workplace with high professional ambitions, where you can make your mark on development and culture.
• A collegial cross-disciplinary team with a professional leader and a department manager close to daily professional efforts and collaboration.
• Collaboration and sparring with an internal psychologist, social worker and nurse.
• Thorough introduction and mentoring scheme.
• Ongoing competence development and a tailored education plan.
• Supervision by a psychologist and sparring with internal specialists, colleagues and the professional leader.
• An work environment focused on well-being, professional collaboration and psychological safety.

The practical

The positions are 37 hours per week. In the Region of Southern Denmark all positions must be posted as full-time positions. However, it should be noted that if you choose to apply for the position and you want a part-time position, you should state this in your application

Your application must include documentation of education, a complete CV and relevant attachments

Working hours will be on rotating shifts day/evening, every 2nd weekend and on holidays

The positions require a driving license for a passenger car.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the positions.

You will be informed of the base salary, centrally set allowances and pension in the collective agreement for: Care and pedagogical assistants as well as pedagogical assistants, collective agreement number 34.06.1

In addition to the starting salary, the position may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications. There may also be shift allowances.

Starting salary for positions in the Region of Southern Denmark

Curious for more?

You can read more about Egely on our website Egely and see our film about working at Egely: Job at Egely

You are also very welcome to contact the department head Charlotte Rathcke Jensen on weekdays between 08:00 and 09:00 at tel. 99 44 21 00.

Application deadline: November 16, 2026.

Interviews: Held on an ongoing basis, but no later than November 20, 2026.

Start date: January 1, 2027 or by agreement.

Workplace: Social Center Lillebælt, Egely Department, Søndergaardsvej 9, 5580 Nr. Aaby.

References as well as child and public criminal records checks will be requested. It is a condition of employment that these attestations are assessed as satisfactory.