Social worker for sickness benefits and job clarification at Brøndby Employment Center

Are you passionate about helping people on sick leave and participants in job clarification programs back into the labor market?

We still need, as part of our new organization, a skilled social worker for handling sickness benefit and job clarification cases. Are you motivated to achieve results through close collaboration with citizens, colleagues and businesses? Then you may be our new social worker for sickness benefits and job clarification efforts at the Brøndby Employment Center in the Department of Job and Development.

What your day will look like

As our new colleague in Job and Development you will have both the desire and the flair to perform the supervisory role in sickness benefit cases and job clarification cases. Here, some of the central tasks will be to conduct individual conversations, make decisions, initiate offers, and ensure progression in the citizen's process.

You must also be conscious of bringing interdisciplinarity into play, with both internal and external colleagues – always with the aim of keeping the sick-listed person in current employment or returning to the labor market as quickly as possible. And that citizens participating in job clarification programs via an action plan return to the labor market as quickly as possible.

In addition, you should be eager to handle the administrative tasks that accompany the position, and possess good communication skills in both written and spoken form.

We focus on dialogue and cooperation as well as an efficient and result-oriented effort. We believe in the citizen and the citizen's opportunities in the labor market, through job-oriented conversations from day one.

Your tasks will include

• You will be responsible for your own caseload of sick-listed citizens and citizens participating in job clarification programs.
• Employment-oriented conversations based on a defined method and template
• Employment-oriented motivation work for sick-listed citizens and citizens in job clarification programs
• Conduct CV interviews and ABC plans
• You conduct follow-up conversations with clear job goals and plans.
• You have close collaboration with both internal and external partners.
• Reassess complaints about your own decisions
• Preparation of cases for meetings in the Flex jobs and early retirement pension board prior to recommendation for flex jobs and early retirement pension.
• Preparation of cases for meetings in the Flex jobs and early retirement pension board prior to the citizen's application for early retirement pension on the existing basis, i.e. under the Social Pension Act § 17

About you

As a person you are empathetic, systematic and structured, and as a colleague you contribute to the community both professionally and socially. We place high value on humor, well-being and job satisfaction. Our starting point is our professional work and our shared core mission.

We expect you to be curious about your own and others' professional trajectories and we emphasize having an active sparring, learning and feedback culture, both in your own department and with the municipality's other administrations.

In addition, we envision that you

• Are educated as a social worker/mediator or have relevant experience from a job center setting.
• Have good collaboration skills and can motivate citizens and colleagues.
• Are ambitious, solution- and results-oriented.
• Are skilled in conversation techniques and writing with a focus on progression, action and legal certainty.
• Trives in a busy environment and can maintain an overview.
• Have solid IT experience and a high level of data discipline.

About us

The sickness benefits and job clarification team is part of the Department of Job and Development, which consists of caseworkers, company/retention consultants, two professional coordinators and a department manager. In addition to sickness benefits and job clarification programs, we also handle resource programs and cash benefits, i.e., the activities-ready over-30s group.

The position is available with regard to case handling of sickness benefits and job clarification area

We place a high value on humor, well-being and job satisfaction. In the department, we have a strong priority on a rewarding and informal sparring space where both new and experienced colleagues experience support, openness and backing in daily task solving. Therefore, we expect you to be curious about your own, colleagues' and other departments' work.

We work in single- and two-person offices and in the Momentum system.

Salary and employment terms

The position is 37 hours per week and to be filled as soon as possible. Salary is set after negotiations with your professional organization and the principles of Ny Løn (New Pay).

Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home one day a week.

Interested?

If you would like to hear more about the position, you can contact Department Manager Gitte Suarez Christensen at mobile number 2132 6342.

Start date: As soon as possible

Application deadline: 30.11.2026

Employment interviews: We will continually conduct interviews in October and November 2026, as we are looking for a new colleague who can start as soon as possible

Application deadline

30-11-2026

Apply for the job via the 'apply' button. Here you can upload your application and CV as well as any relevant documentation.

All interested applicants regardless of age, gender, disability, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply for the position.

In Brøndby Municipality there is a general policy that new employees must present a criminal record. For employment and direct contact with children under 15 years of age, a child certificate is also obtained.

Brøndby Municipality has a smoke-free workplace.

Brøndby is a centrally located capital municipality with about 40,000 inhabitants. The city’s pulse is shaped by community, diversity and a strong sports culture. We are a municipality with edge and exciting contrasts with residential and business areas, forests, green spaces and Strandparken with the sea and the lakes.