Re-entry Officer at Hammer Bakker Reintegration Prison

Are you trained as a social educator, social worker or similar and do you have experience from working with vulnerable groups, including for example criminals and/or addicts and do you have a foundation that includes professional diligence and commitment, a curious and open approach to relationship work, as well as an ability and desire to participate in a constructive and developing collegial environment and contribute to a healthy work climate? If you can say yes to the whole thing, then Hammer Bakker Reintegration Prison has a position for you.

About Hammer Bakker Reintegration Prison

Staying at Denmark’s Prison Service reintegration prisons can be part of reintegration into society in the final part of a sentence. All reintegration prisons accept both women and men. The purpose of the stay at a Reintegration Prison is to support and help the individual create a situation that makes the person better able to live a life without crime.

There is room for 27 residents spread across five departments, of which one department is a family house. The family house specializes in pedagogical and social work with families where one or both parents are incarcerated.

During the day, residents are either employed outside the reintegration prison with work or education, or they are at the house where they must participate in various activities.

Your tasks as a night shift employee will primarily be

• To support and motivate residents to a life without crime. The tasks surrounding each resident are diverse and you take, as the contact person, in collaboration with your colleagues, as the starting point of the incarceration and action plan when you plan the good reintegration process
• Case processing in the form of e.g. preparing and following up on professionally qualified action plans, further reintegration as well as releases in close cooperation with both internal and external partners
• To lead and participate in various activities with residents, where relationship work is what carries the task
• Make the reintegration time as close to the lived life as possible and include the surrounding civil society
• To work with group dynamics and residents’ social skills in the different departments, which hold an obligatory meeting once a week and a common resident meeting once a month
• Practical ad hoc tasks

About you

• We expect that you have a qualification as a social educator, social worker or similar. You have broad professional experience from working with addicts, criminals or other vulnerable groups.
• You master professional relationship-building with residents
• You are structured, independent and can maintain an overview in a daily life with many varied tasks, where the resident is the focus
• You are able to create a close and respectful interdisciplinary collaboration with the reintegration prison’s other staff and contribute to a healthy and safe environment with learning and development in mind
• You have insight into and a desire for interdisciplinary collaboration with authorities and partners

In addition, you are proactive and have an eye for development opportunities for residents, the collegial environment and for Hammer Bakker Reintegration Prison in general. You have good communication skills and can express yourself clearly and constructively both orally and in writing.

About us

Hammer Bakker Reintegration Prison is part of Vendsyssel’s prisons, which consists of Hammer Bakker Reintegration Prison and Kragskovhede Prison. We work in a holistic and interdisciplinary way with 18 staff with backgrounds in social, educational and prison-related fields.

Employment and pay

Employment and pay are according to the applicable joint agreement as well as the applicable organizational agreement depending on educational background and any local agreements. There may additionally be allowances depending on experience and qualifications.

The position is 37 hours per week, and the working hours are distributed with shifting schedules, including evenings, weekends and holidays. Night shifts are worked.

The hiring area is the Ministry of Justice with its associated institutions. The workplace is located at Pitsvej 7, 9310 Vodskov.

You apply for the position via the link

"Apply for the position”. Your application with CV, documentation of education and prior experience must be received no later than

20 October 2026 at 12:00.

Employer interviews are expected to be held on 21 October 2026.

It is a condition of employment that, in connection with the interview, you consent to the Danish Prison Service obtaining and assessing information about you from the Central Criminal Register. Before employment we must receive documentation of CV, e.g. employment certificates.

Denmark’s Prisons encourages all qualified applicants regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnicity to apply.

Further information

For more information about the position, please contact Unit Manager René Nielsen at tel. 7255 4636 or Unit Leader Sean Kollerup Revill at tel. 7255 1545.

Application deadline: Oct 20, 2026

Location: Region North Jutland