Social Educator or PAU for Center for Families, Hyblerne Unit

We are looking for a social educator or PAU for Center for Families, Hyblerne department

As a vacancy in our department becomes a permanent position, we are now looking for one more colleague to the team.

Are you ready to make a difference for young people? Do you want to work in a team of social educators who are passionate about the youth group, and do you think it’s cool to be right where the young people are.

Do you thrive working independently and feel comfortable in an unpredictable everyday life?

Then it might be you we need.

About the workplace

Center for Families is an institution in the child and family area.

All interventions at Center for Families aim to develop the children and families towards the good general life.

Our professional and theoretical basis is broad and starts from systemic and narrative thinking.

Center for Families handles many interventions, including preventive offers, family therapy – both outpatient and in residential care – family counseling support, placement in foster families and at children and youth homes as well as support stays in day and residential facilities.

The resources of the child, the youth and the family form the basis for treatment, activities and learning in interaction with staff.

Principles that cooperation with the young person should take place close to home, in the network and be documented and measurable, shall form the basis for the work at Center for Families.

Department Hyblerne is located in Rødekro, Byskoven 22 and is a 24/7 residential facility for youths between 14 and 23 with special needs.

Hyblerne is situated in a housing association and is equipped with 6 single rooms with own bathroom and toilet, common living room and office. The youths join a community, where they, together with staff, must cooperate to make daily life in Hyblerne hang together.

In Hyblerne there is staff on duty at all times of the week, year round, and working hours are in the morning or afternoon/evening. There is no night shift.

About the job

The youths placed in Hyblerne need help and support in everyday life, both for planned tasks, e.g. medical visits, follow-up meetings, bank appointments, supportive conversations and ADL training.

The department houses 6 youths, whom you, together with your colleagues, shall help and support in developing towards a stable and good adult life – as close to the general as possible. That means that schooling and work are given high priority when we work with the youths, and we have an expectation that our young people are either in employment, or willing to cooperate towards working towards it.

We place high value on the sense of community in the department, and as staff you would be running house meetings where the voices of the youths are heard and taken seriously. The youths have a cooking day each week, and you as staff will be the facilitator to support the youths in making a meal plan, shopping and finally making dinner for all residents of the house.

You will, in addition to the youth's family, have a close collaboration with child- and youth counselors, schools, private practicing doctors, psychiatry, psychologists, Early Prevention and others who can bring the child/youth forward in development.

We offer

• good opportunities for education and personal development, including relevant after-training and monthly supervision sessions within the framework of Center for Families' areas of work
• an interdisciplinary collegial atmosphere, where we value collaboration skills, and where the youths and families are at the center
• a team of professional colleagues who have a common focus and goals in daily life and a positive expectation of each other and the youths and their parents
• opportunity to help shape your mark on the department

About you

We expect you professionally

• are trained as a pedagogue or PAU
• have knowledge of working with vulnerable and possibly crime-threatened youths
• have control of written documentation

We expect you personally

• See the value of and contribute positively to the interdisciplinary collaboration
• Have an overview and be able to plan and structure your tasks independently
• Be able to see small glints of development and magnify them
• Have an appreciative approach to the youths and have good relational skills
• Can collaborate with everyone who can help bring the youths closer to the good general life
• Take part in all the practicalities that need to be handled in a home

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms according to applicable collective agreement.

The position is 37 hours per week with start date 1 January 2027. There is also a possibility that the position can be offered on a part-time 32 hours if desired. Work in rotation on holidays, and you must work every 3rd weekend.

We note that prior to employment a child and criminal record check will be obtained, and that the employment will be conditional on these being satisfactory.

You will be employed in Center for Families, with workplace Hyblerne, Byskoven 22, 6230 Rødekro.

If you have questions, you can contact department head Lea Nedergaard Hansen on phone 2964 8138 during 8-15.

Read more on Center for Families' website.

Application

Send your application via the link no later than October 17 2026

We will conduct recruitment interviews on 22 October 2026.

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