Practice-oriented department head with responsibility for inclusive child communities

Practice-oriented department head with responsibility for inclusive children's communities

Are you passionate about creating strong children's communities where more children can participate and succeed? And are you motivated by being close to the pedagogical practice and ensuring that professional efforts are translated into action and followed through to the end?

Then you could be our new department head at Blomsten Nursery and Kindergarten.

We are seeking a proactive and practice-oriented department head who will have particular responsibility for driving and developing our work as a growth institution and coordinating the efforts around children in vulnerable positions.

You will become part of Blomsten's leadership team and play an important role in creating coherence and progress in the pedagogical work – close to children, staff, parents and partners.

A leadership team with shared responsibility

We are developing our management organization from a traditional split between nursery and kindergarten to a more community-oriented leadership where we share the tasks among us.

The second department head has a particular focus on duty roster planning and staff administration. Your focus will be the professional leadership of the work with inclusive children's communities and children in vulnerable positions.

About Blomsten

Blomsten is an integrated nursery and kindergarten with recognition and sustainability as central elements in our pedagogical profile.

We work from the positive intention and are curious about what lies behind children's and adults' actions.

We work according to Solrød Municipality's Children and Youth Policy: Children and young people do the best they can. When a child has difficulty participating, we examine both the child's needs and the relationships, settings and learning environments the child is part of.

Blomsten is a growth institution and has two growth placements to which children are referred. We have extra resources to develop frameworks, relationships and learning environments that give children real participation opportunities.

The entire staff group is undergoing competence development with a focus on inclusive pedagogy and the work as a growth institution. As our new department head, you will contribute to the professional direction and ensure that the new knowledge is tested and anchored in practice.

Professional leadership close to practice

For us, professional leadership does not take place only behind a desk. You must therefore be visible in everyday life and close to the children, the staff and the pedagogical practice. You will, among other things, be responsible for:

• collaborate with staff to create a high-quality everyday life (we use KIDS)
• advise and brainstorm with staff and ensure that the initiatives create the desired development
• coordinate initiatives and create clarity around goals for children in need of a special intervention.
• support the development of inclusive children's communities

As department head you will be self-scheduled in collaboration with the other department head, in order to ensure a good balance between participation in practice and time to perform the administrative tasks. We expect you to spend on average about 10 hours per week on administrative tasks.

Parent collaboration and interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinary collaboration is an integrated part of the task. You must be able to assess when the institution's own pedagogical actions should be supplemented with knowledge from PPR or pedagogical advisers.

You must be able to lead meetings about the children, gather different perspectives and translate advice into concrete actions. At the same time you must be able to conduct the necessary parent conversations clearly, respectfully and with courage. Sometimes you must also be able to handle difficult conversations. It is important here that you can maintain calm and direction while being curious about the other person's perspective.

What you bring as our new department head

You have a view of both the individual child and the bigger context and meet children, parents and colleagues openly and warmly. You take the initiative when you see a need and follow up tasks and initiatives to the end. At the same time you can maintain calm and an overview when situations are complex, or you encounter resistance.

• We expect that you: are educated as a pedagogue or have another relevant pedagogical education
• have experience from the day-care sector
• have knowledge about children in vulnerable positions, inclusion and special interventions
• have experience with and courage for professional leadership of staff
• work systematically and follow through on complex processes
• are strong in parent collaboration and interdisciplinary cooperation
• can translate Solrød Municipality's child perspective and leadership foundation into practice
• actively contribute to a close and committed management collaboration.

Your leadership should be based on Solrød Municipality's leadership foundation: integrity, trust, courage and curiosity.

It is an advantage if you have a leadership education or relevant continuing education in areas such as special pedagogy, inclusion, guidance or pedagogical leadership.

Why choose Blomsten

With us you get a meaningful professional area of responsibility and the opportunity to develop and leave your mark on our work as a growth institution. You get a clear mandate and responsibility to move the work forward, while becoming part of a leadership community where we share the responsibility, use each other's perspectives and together create the best framework for children and staff at Blomsten.

We look forward to welcoming you to us, so we together can help develop our pedagogical practice.

Practical information

The position is 37 hours per week with expected start as soon as possible. You will be employed under the applicable collective agreement and paid according to relevant experience and qualifications. Salary 41,800 DKK excluding pension.

If you have questions or would like to visit Blomsten, you are welcome to contact day care manager Henriette Knudsen at phone 23 23 95 30 or [email protected] .

The application deadline is October 15, 2026, and we expect to hold the first interview on Thursday in week 43, and the second interview on Wednesday in week 44. Between the first and second interview you will need to complete a personality assessment, for which you will receive personal feedback on Tuesday in week 44.

We look forward to hearing from you.

In Solrød Municipality we make a difference together with the citizens. We work to realize the council's vision that Solrød should be the best place to live and raise a family. As a workplace we are a community where we lift tasks across institutions and departments, and where you as an employee are an important ally. We are in motion and continually focus on learning and improving. We take responsibility for solving the tasks with a view to the whole, and you as an employee have influence on the solution of tasks and on your workplace.