Reentry Officer for Hammer Bakker Reentry Prison

Are you educated as a social educator, social worker or similar, and do you have experience 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 relational work as well as an ability and desire to engage in constructive and developing collegiality and contribute to a healthy working environment? If you can say yes to all of this, then Hammer Bakker Release Prison has a position for you.

About Hammer Bakker Release Prison

Staying at Denmark's Prisons' release prisons can be part of the release to society in the final part of a sentence. All release prisons accept both women and men. The purpose of staying at a Release 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 distributed across five departments, one of which is a family house. The Family House specializes in pedagogical and social work with families where one or both parents are incarcerated.

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

Your tasks as a night shift worker will primarily be

• To support and motivate residents toward a life without crime. The tasks surrounding each resident are diverse, and you take, as the contact person, in collaboration with your colleagues, the starting point in the release and action plan when you plan the good release process
• Case management in the form of, for example, drafting and following up on professionally qualified action plans, further release as well as releases in close cooperation with both internal and external partners
• To organize and participate in various activities with the residents, where the relational work carries the task
• To make the release period as close to lived life as possible and include the surrounding civil society
• To work with group dynamics and the residents' social skills in the different departments, which hold a mandatory meeting once a week and a joint resident meeting once a month
• Practical ad hoc tasks

About you

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

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

About us

Hammer Bakker Release Prison is part of the prisons of Vendsyssel, which consists of Hammer Bakker Release Prison and Kragskovhede Prison.

We work holistically and cross-functionally with 18 employees with backgrounds in social, pedagogical and prison-related work.

Employment and remuneration

Employment and remuneration are in accordance with the current central collective agreement and the applicable organizational agreement depending on educational background and any local agreements. Additionally, allowances can be agreed depending on experience and qualifications.

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

The employment 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.

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 Denmark's Prisons obtaining and assessing information about you from the Central Criminal Register. Before employment we must receive documentation for the CV, e.g. employment certificates.

Denmark's Prisons encourages all qualified applicants regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background to apply.

Further information

More information about the position can be obtained by contacting unit manager René Nielsen at tel. 7255 4636 or unit head Sean Kollerup Revill at tel. 7255 1545.