Social worker for Syrenparken – professional development, citizen-centered practice and new opportunities to shape your working life

Would you like to help strengthen the quality of our social-pedagogical work, create coherence in citizens' trajectories, and translate professional knowledge into concrete actions in everyday life? And would you at the same time like to have the opportunity to influence the planning of your working life?

At Syrenparken we develop both our professional practice and our way of organizing work. From week 2 we will introduce a new work plan, where there will be options to request different shifts and weekend rotations. We want to create a better balance between work life and leisure and greater flexibility in everyday life.

The work schedules are planned in dialogue with the employees and with regard to individual wishes, citizens' needs and the overall operation.

We are looking for a social worker who would like to become part of a multidisciplinary community where professionalism, relationships and shared responsibility go hand in hand. With us, the social worker’s task is not limited to documentation, meetings and coordination. You will also be an active part of the daily intervention together with the citizens, where your social-pedagogical knowledge is applied in concrete situations and relationships.

Who are we?

Syrenparken is a regional social-psychiatric residential facility in the Region of Southern Denmark. We work with adult citizens with complex psychiatric issues and focus on creating a meaningful everyday life with hope, mastery and care.

Our vision is

We succeed when the citizen feels valuable in a meaningful everyday life through hope, mastery and care.

We work rehabilitatively and recovery-oriented and place emphasis on meeting citizens with respect, professional curiosity and an effort that starts from the individual’s resources, wishes and needs.

You will become part of a multidisciplinary environment with, among others, pedagogues, social and health care assistants, occupational therapists and nurses, as well as close collaboration with professional leadership and relevant partners.

Your tasks

As a social worker you will play a central role in supporting quality, structure and coherence in citizens’ trajectories. You must be able to work systematically with social-pedagogical documentation and help translate goals and interventions into a meaningful daily life for the citizens.

You will be part of the citizen-centered practice

A key part of the position is the daily work with citizens in their own apartments. Here you support each individual based on their needs, desires and goals. This may include:

• Support for ADL tasks and development or maintenance of everyday life skills.
• Individual conversations focusing on well-being, mastery, motivation and development.
• Participation in activities and support to join social communities.
• Accompanying to appointments and activities outside the residential facility.
• Support to create structure, overview and coherence in everyday life.

You should be eager to be close to the citizens’ daily lives and see the value in the fact that the relationship and concrete efforts are decisive for our shared core task. It is in interaction with the citizens that we have the opportunity to understand their perspectives and translate our professionalism into action.

You also contribute to social-pedagogical quality

Your other tasks will include, among others

• Prepare, qualify and quality assure citizen descriptions, status descriptions and other relevant documentation in Nexus.
• Support planning, structure and follow-up on citizens’ daily and weekly plans.
• Contribute to ensuring that goals, sub-goals and interventions are cohesive and clear for both citizens and staff.
• Participate in status meetings and collaborate with relevant internal and external partners.
• Support ongoing work with documentation, quality and annual planning.
• Contribute to a shared learning culture, where we reflect on our practice and develop our efforts based on rehabilitation and recovery.
• Contribute to ensuring that legislation, social-pedagogical assessments and the citizen’s perspective are integrated into daily practice.

Tasks are carried out in close collaboration with the staff and the professional leadership. We expect you to be able to work independently and to be an active player in the multidisciplinary community.

Who are you?

We are looking for you, who

• Is educated as a social worker.
• Has experience from social psychiatry or a related social-pedagogical area.
• Has knowledge of relevant legislation, authority work and collaboration across professional areas.
• Works structurally and has an eye for quality and coherence in documentation.
• Can translate social-pedagogical knowledge into practice and communicate it in a way that is usable for colleagues.
• Wants to be involved in citizen-centered work and thrives on engaging in relationships and supporting citizens in their own everyday life.
• Can create a good balance between written tasks, coordination and direct contact with citizens.
• Works calmly, systematically and with respect for citizens’ individual situations.
• Wants professional development, reflection and shared learning.
• Has a driving license for a car.

You do not need to know everything from day one. The most important is that you come with professional curiosity, engagement and a desire to contribute to our shared task.

Our professional approach

At Syrenparken we work rehabilitatively and recovery-oriented. We use, among other things, LA2 and a cognitive approach as a framework for our pedagogical and social-pedagogical work.

We want a practice where documentation is not just something we write, but an active tool that helps us create direction, continuity and coherence in the citizens’ daily life.

Therefore, it is important that you can see the value in linking documentation, professional reflections and concrete interventions closely together. We succeed best when we use our different professional disciplines collectively and take responsibility for ensuring that our agreements and interventions are translated into action in everyday life.

We offer

• An workplace with an important and meaningful societal task.
• A multidisciplinary work environment where we help each other and learn together.
• Opportunity to shape and develop the quality of our social-pedagogical work.
• A position with variation between citizen-centered work, documentation, coordination and professional development.
• Close collaboration with staff and professional leadership.
• Introduction to Syrenparken, our methods and workflows.
• Ongoing professional sparring, reflection and relevant development opportunities.
• An workplace where we encourage open dialogue about both what works and what we need to improve.

A new work plan with opportunity for influence

From week 2 we will introduce a new work plan with the possibility to request different ways of organizing working hours. This also applies to the social worker position, which is included in the same working time frame as the other staff at Syrenparken.

There will be the opportunity to request

• Day shifts.
• Evening shifts.
• A combination of day and evening shifts.
• 12-hour shifts.
• Weekend shifts every other weekend or every fourth weekend.

We want to create greater flexibility and a better balance between work life and leisure. Shift preferences are included in the dialogue about the work plan, but the final planning is made with regard to citizens’ needs, staff wishes and the overall operation.

Conditions of employment

The position is in principle 37 hours per week.

In the Region of Southern Denmark, all positions must be advertised as full-time. However, it should be noted that if you choose to apply for the position and you wish a part-time position, you should state this in your application.

Your application must include documentation of education, a complete CV and relevant attachments.

The region is obliged to inform you of the starting salary for the position.

You will be told the base salary, centrally fixed allowances and pension in the collective agreement for: Social workers, collective agreement number 32.32.1

In addition to the starting salary, the position may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications. There may also be shift allowances.

Starting salary for positions in the Region of Southern Denmark

If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact

• Department Head Sarah Bro Petersen at phone 21 72 84 55.
• Department Head Thomas Mortensen at phone 24 65 13 61.
• Department Head Anne Tolstrup Rasmussen at phone 21 28 31 49.

We look forward to hearing from you and meeting a new colleague who will help develop our professionalism and create coherence in citizens’ daily lives.

Read more about Syrenparken on our website Syrenparken and watch our film about working at Syrenparken Job at Syrenparken

Application deadline: 9 November 2026.

Employment interviews: We will hold interviews on an ongoing basis and expect to conduct the final interview on 11 November 2026.

Start date: 1 January 2027 or by agreement.

References and a criminal record check will be obtained before employment. It is a condition of employment that the criminal record is deemed satisfactory.