Psychologist for Children and Family House 0-14 years / CIBU

Exciting psychologist position for a development-oriented family house with high social capital and great diversity.

Children and Family House Odense 0 – 14 years / CIBU seeks a psychologist for permanent employment in connection with one of our psychologists retiring. The weekly hours are, as a rule, 37 hours. The position is to be filled on 1 February 2027.

The primary tasks lie in family intervention, independently and cross-professional with the other professionals in the house. Furthermore in supporting the professional development and quality of the interventions. In addition there will also be psychology-specific tasks, such as individual therapy courses for both children and parents as well as supervision for foster families. There will also be, to a lesser extent, psychological assessments of children and attachment assessments. As a psychologist one also participates in the collaboration on the development of the psychology area in the house and across CIBU.

We can offer a workplace

• with an engaged, diverse staff group
• with good opportunities for professional qualification
• with great social capital and well-being
• where you are not left alone with difficult tasks
• where staff turnover is low
• where humor thrives
• where you have a high degree of autonomy in organizing your work
• where there is an opportunity for homeworking days
• where staff receive regular external supervision
• where professional development is part of daily operations
• where a wide range of therapeutic methods are used

We are looking for a colleague

• with a psychology education (cand.psych. or cand.pæd.psych.)
• who as a starting point is a clinical psychologist/psychologist with practice training
• who has knowledge, familiarity and experience with vulnerable children and youth.
• who possibly has further training in family intervention
• who has experience with talking / therapy with children and families
• who is keen to experiment and develop their practice in relation to work with children, family and networks.
• who thinks flexibly regarding relational and motivational work
• who wants to actively participate in the professional development of the family house.
• who would like to work positively to create a workplace with professionalism, good traditions and social cohesion

For the position it is required that we complement our diverse family house and it is therefore not a prerequisite to have interest and competencies within all of our services, methods and age groups. We want to hire a psychologist with good analytical and structural competences, with particular professional and therapeutic knowledge/experience within some of our target groups, as well as good collaboration skills with both citizens and professionals.

We work on developing intervention concepts in many areas and in this connection we want employees who are interested in development and learning processes and who can work in a structured and conscious way with reflection and development of their own practice. We work to a large extent with using employees’ competence profiles and professional interests, but there will also be a need to handle generalist tasks.

Children and Family House Odense 0 – 14 years belongs to the Center for Interventions for Children and Young People (CIBU), which is part of the Department of Family and Prevention in the Children and Young People Administration in Odense Municipality. We receive our tasks from the authority sector based on the Child Act. We work according to a BUM model, where the authority orders the tasks via a contract and we are the provider of the execution of the task.

The treatment is based on a holistic approach, with focus on the relationships and networks that the child and family are part of. The treatment is individually tailored to the family and takes its starting point in an appreciative resource-oriented approach.

In Children and Family House Odense 0 – 14 years there are currently 4 psychologists employed, with one on maternity leave. The total staff group consists of 41 employees distributed across 5 teams. In addition there are 2 professional team leaders, 1 acting family house manager and 2 house assistants as well as ongoing social worker and psychologist trainees. The majority of the staff are family therapists, with basic training as pedagogues or social workers.

The keyword in Børn- og Familiehusets knowledge base is diverse knowledge. We aim to have as broad a knowledge base as possible. We want common basic knowledge for all as well as specialization for selected groups of employees. We aim for a wide range of personal competences among the staff.

The diversity is seen as important in relation to being able to match the individual family / the individual child as best as possible and thereby achieve the sustaining relation for collaboration or professional approach, with a view to developing the stated goals of the intervention. Diversity is also important for the house regarding professional development, as it provides the opportunity to challenge each other, think of alternative paths and develop new interventions.

Children and Family House Odense 0 – 14 years / CIBU work in all interventions with Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT), as a dialogue and effect-measurement tool. Children and Family House 0 – 14 years has an extensive catalog of services and continually works with new development initiatives, currently e.g. Theraplay, MIM / MIM-P as a method, Pedagogical Sandplay, children with developmental disorders, early attachment, children in high-conflict divorce, clarification processes, trauma-focused approach, etc.

Children and Family House Odense 0 – 14 years is physically located at Ejby Kirkevej 15, 5220 Odense SØ, together with Family and Youth House 4 – 18 years and CIBU administration.

A driving license is required. Own car is an advantage but not a prerequisite, as Children and Family House 0 – 14 years has a number of service cars and e-bikes.

Further information can be obtained by contacting the Children and Family House at the Family House Manager Thomas Jakobsen on tel. 23639226 or email: [email protected] or psychologist / team leader Malene Due on tel. 21594060 or email: [email protected]

We would welcome references marked on the application or handed in at the interview

Salary and employment terms according to current collective agreement.

Interview days are expected to be held on Thursday, 17 December 2026