Professional Coordinator for the Authority on Disability and Social Psychiatry

Can you set a strong professional direction and stand firm in changes and unrest? Then you are the one we are looking for for our newly created position.

The Disability and Social Psychiatry Authority seeks a professional coordinator for 37 hours per week from December 1, 2026.

The Disability and Social Psychiatry Authority is part of the Social and Health in Haderslev Municipality. In Social and Health, “A Meaningful Everyday – every day” sets the direction. All people have a need to determine their own life and, as far as possible, live a life independent of the municipality's help. We start from what exactly creates a meaningful everyday life for each individual and help them, through the solutions we have and are building.

The Disability and Social Psychiatry Authority is Haderslev Municipality's authority for applications for compensatory measures for citizens with disabilities, mental disorders or social vulnerability.

We collaborate with citizens and other departments to facilitate welfare and find the best possible solution for the individual citizen. We believe we are at our best when we create solutions together.

What can we offer?

First and foremost, we can offer you an exciting, varied, professional and demanding job, where you get to put your professionalism first and take co-responsibility for the professional direction of the department.

We can also offer

• a department and an workplace with skilled and engaged employees, where everyone helps shape development
• an well-structured induction program for the first period of your employment with us
• an workplace with opportunities for flexible work arrangements in the form of possibilities for home working, opportunities to influence your own working hours within the municipality's opening hours, the possibility to organize tasks yourself, plan meetings and hold meetings on Teams
• a good working environment with good colleagues and a good collegial atmosphere
• an exciting and dynamic workplace with a focus on development
• room for professional exchange of opinions, dilemmas and ethics
• room for professional and personal development
• an organization that thinks in value-based and holistic terms with a focus on cross-disciplinary task solving.

And we can offer much more than this, and we would like to tell you more about it.

Open House

Therefore we invite interested applicants to an open house, where you can see our workplace and hear more about the position Thursday, October 8, 2026 from 15:00 to 17:00 at Haderslev Town Hall, Entrance A.

If you are interested in meeting us, seeing our workplace and hearing more about the position, we hope you will come to Haderslev Town Hall, where we will be ready to welcome you in the Town Hall lobby.

What are the primary job functions?

Your primary role is to support the daily social-legal operations in the Disability and Social Psychiatry Authority and to support the head of the Disability and Social Psychiatry Authority with the citizen-focused aspects of authority work.

You will be the primary sparring partner for the social-legal staff around the citizen cases.

You must help the social-legal staff manage especially complex citizen pathways, and you can be the 2nd person on complex citizen cases and support the social-legal staff in casework, meetings with the citizen/guardians m.m.

We imagine that you

• are educated as social worker or social facilitator
• have in-depth knowledge of, and experience with, working in the specialized area within the framework of the Social Services Act, including the Adult Assessment Method
• are engaged in, and have an opinion on, what characterizes good case handling
• are able to maintain calm and overview so you contribute to making good and well-considered decisions
• thrive in a changing and sometimes hectic workday
• have an appreciative and curious approach to sparring with the social-legal staff
• are a strong communicator, both in writing and verbally, and can help translate methods, legislation and strategies into practice
• have good collaboration skills and can see your own role in the cross-disciplinary collaboration
• see yourself as part of a department where everyone contributes to the tasks, contributes to professional development and contributes to a good working environment
• possess good humor and a can-do attitude.

Who are we

We are a authority department that handles tasks in the form of case processing, assessment and follow-up of citizens over 18 years with mental and physical handicaps that have led to a lasting and significant reduced physical and/or mental function, which means there is a need for compensation to be able to function in daily life.

Our tasks consist of general case processing in the form of processing new applications, meeting leadership, advice, guidance, clarification of needs and interventions, assessment, making decisions, initiating and following up the appropriate support measure under the Social Services Act §§ 84, 85, 97, 103, 104, 107, 108.

We are 23 employees in the department, distributed as follows

• 16 experienced authority caseworkers
• 2 social pedagogues
• 1 quality and development coordinator
• 3 administrative
• 1 manager

We are a department with trust in each other. In daily life this is expressed by the fact that we largely rely on each other for professional sparring and professional discussions.

We place emphasis on maintaining a proper tone towards each other. Openness, curiosity, an appreciative approach and loyalty are the keywords for us.

We would most like to spend time and energy on the good stories.

We are based at Haderslev Town Hall, where we sit close to our other colleagues in Social and Health.

Salary and employment terms

Base salary, pay grade 46, 43,570 DKK per month. In addition, there can be individual agreements between Haderslev Municipality and your professional organization based on experience and qualifications.

On appointment we will obtain a criminal record check.

Further information

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the head, Karina Kjær, at phone 21 54 46 67. You can also send a text message so we can agree on a time to talk.

Application

Submit your application, CV and attachments via the application button no later than Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 12:00.

It is important to us that your motivation for applying for the positions clearly appears in your application.

We will hold 1st interview on Thursday, October 22, 2026 , and we will hold 2nd interview on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 .

When you are invited to the 1st interview, you will be asked to prepare based on a case you will receive before the interview. If you are invited to the 2nd interview, you will be asked to participate in a personality test before the interview.

About Haderslev Municipality

We are an organization with ambitions for both Haderslev Municipality and ourselves. We work purposefully and innovatively, create results together and dare to aim high. With us, dialogue and community are the key to development – across professions, citizens, businesses, associations and politicians. Therefore our ambition is that by 2030 we have 250 more in education, 500 more inhabitants and 1,000 more job opportunities. All of that can become part of you with a job with us.