Placement Consultant

In Billund Municipality we have high ambitions on behalf of children and young people. We are looking for a foster care placement consultant who can combine strong social work expertise with relationship skills, curiosity and a desire for development. You will become part of a team that works purposefully to create effective placements through close collaboration with foster families, children, young people and their networks. Here you will have the opportunity to apply your professional skills and help shape solutions that make a noticeable difference.

You will work closely with your colleagues in the Placement Team. The team consists of two placement consultants, a network worker, five social workers and a professional coordinator, who work closely together as a team.

We need you specifically if

• have emotional maturity and commitment in working with placed children and young people
• have solid pedagogical or social work experience and knowledge about placed children and young people
• can maintain focus on the child or the young person and their right to a safe upbringing
• enjoy working independently, in a structured and systematic way in a busy everyday life
• are professionally creative and can think in alternative possibilities
• can co-create with children/young people, placement sites and the advisor in the process of finding good solutions
• can conduct conversations with people as they develop through them
• can contribute professionally and socially in the Placement Team, and the entire Family Department, with holistic solutions, motivation and a positive and reflective approach to the work

About the job

The target group is broadly defined in the age range 0-18 years (23-year youth support). Work across the Youth and Family Departments. You will report to the Head of the Family Department, to whom you will also organizationally belong.

Your task as a foster care placement consultant primarily consists of supporting and developing foster families through close contact and guidance. You match based on the child’s or young person’s plan, as well as close dialogue with the child/young person’s advisor. It therefore requires you to be skilled in communication, and you must have broad knowledge of placement places and be creative in what possibilities can be offered from the individual child’s/young person’s perspective.

Your tasks are

• To ensure qualified matching between children and placement site
• To provide supervision to foster families aligned with their current needs
• To provide intensive start-up programs (TSOP) to foster families and network foster families when starting a new foster arrangement
• To run courses for foster families and network foster families
• Recruitment of foster families and support stays
• Approval of network foster families
• To ensure qualified matching between children and placement site

Your new workplace

Billund Municipality is a workplace with room to breathe and a value-based personnel policy.

We work according to the common values; solution-mindedness, that we succeed through joint effort, we make an effort and that playful working is our superpower.

Organisationally, the Placement Team is located in the Family Department, which is part of the Youth and Family area in Billund Municipality.

Common to all employees is that we have an appreciative approach and base our work on the child’s resources and competences. We have a particular focus on working across the different professional groups and legislations we interact with in daily life. Our goal is, based on the potential of the child and the young person, to create coherence and development in the efforts and thinking.

Geographically, the Family Department is located at Billund Town Hall in Grindsted. Jorden Rundt 1 A, 7200 Grindsted. We sit together in an open office environment.

Billund Municipality has smoke-free working hours.

We offer

• A dynamic workplace with humor, job satisfaction and a wide variety of tasks
• A multidisciplinary work environment with high professional standards
• Professional support and backing from colleagues and management
• Room for creative solutions within the overall framework
• Team collaboration where we share challenges and joys
• A very varied and autonomous job
• Opportunity to make a difference in a department with ambitions to be an attractive workplace

Salary and terms of employment

The employment is in accordance with KL’s agreements with a number of professional organizations on pay and conditions. Salary is negotiated according to the applicable collective agreement.

The employment is initially with a start date of January 4, 2027 or by agreement.

The employment is 37 hours.

Application deadline: 15 November 2026

Interviews are expected to be held on 18 November 2026.

Questions regarding the position can be directed to the Head of the Family Department Lotte Jensen at tel. 24462948 or placement consultant Lisbeth Toft 24 76 38 03.

Application deadline: 15. November 2026

Department: Jorden Rundt 1 7200 Grindsted