Social worker sought for Clinic for Eating Disorders - maternity leave cover

Since our permanent social worker is going on maternity leave, we are seeking a maternity leave substitute who can contribute with social work knowledge to both our child and adolescent team and our adult team.

We are looking for you who have the courage and desire to work in the complex field with patients with eating disorders and who can see yourself helping to strengthen the efforts for people who have an eating disorder.

The target group is patients undergoing treatment in the Eating Disorders Clinic, where there is a need to ensure the establishment and coordination of cross-sector collaboration between the treatment team and the patient’s other networks, including school, municipality and other interventions around the patient. You will carry the contact in this collaboration and be the link between the different systems.

There will be further development of previously gained experience with eating support and support for self-harm in the patient’s local environment. This is with a view to supporting and helping patients in a transition between treatment and rehabilitation.

You will be attached to the child and adolescent team, but must also be available for the patients who are attached to the adult team. A common feature for both teams is that work is interdisciplinary, and you will in that context be required to contribute with social work knowledge and competencies.

You will also enter into close cooperation with the social worker who is employed in our advanced initiative and the on-call ward’s social worker, and at the same time be attached to a mono-disciplinary team of social workers across the entire Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

We are looking for

• A trained social worker, socionom or social facilitator
• Preferably experience from working with children and adolescents as well as adults with mental health difficulties and their families
• Preferably experience with working with severe eating disorders
• Experience from the authority role, preferably from the child and family area and/or the adult area
• Ability to collaborate constructively and development-oriented to ensure good coherence between the treatment of the eating disorder and the other support needs the patient has.
• Ability to independently manage specific social worker tasks including preparation of notifications, coordination and holding network meetings, guidance on leave options etc.
• Can contribute with social work specialist knowledge in the cross-disciplinary teams in the clinic

About the Eating Disorders Clinic

The Center for Eating Disorders consists of a clinic, day treatment, forward-leaning initiative and an on-call ward. We treat children, adolescents and adults with eating disorders from the entire Region Zealand’s 17 municipalities.

The clinic is responsible for outpatient work aimed at children, adolescents and adults with eating disorders and conducts psychotherapy treatments; individually, in groups or through family therapy. The clinic specializes in treatment of anorexia, bulimia and BED and is divided into 3 teams: a child and adolescent team, an adult team and a BED team. Work is across professional groups, including doctors, psychologists, nurses, dietitians, social workers and secretaries.

The clinic also includes a day ward, where patients attend four days a week and receive milieu therapy and meals support. In addition, we have an advanced function that handles treatment in the more acute phase.

Patients can switch between the different treatment options at the Center for Eating Disorders depending on how intensive treatment the patient needs.

Work tasks

• Ensure establishment and coordination of collaboration with the primary sector
• Participation in conferences with both the child team and the adult team
• Obtain information that may be relevant to the patient’s treatment
• Preparation of notifications
• Prepare and qualify written material for partners as needed and with consent.
• Join the continuous assessment and treatment planning and contribute to this with solid mono-disciplinary knowledge
• Handle specific social worker tasks in connection with diagnostics, examination and treatment, including planning and holding network meetings
• Have contact with patients and relatives as needed
• Guide on leave options for parents/relatives
• Continuously engage in collaboration with other treaters from the Center for Eating Disorders and help ensure a smooth handover between the different treatment options the patient can participate in (Clinic, day treatment, forward-leaning initiative and on-call ward).

We offer you

• A thorough introduction
• To join a dedicated and professionally highly qualified therapy team
• Part of the mono-disciplinary team in the Center for Eating Disorders, where there is an opportunity for mono-disciplinary sparring with 2 other social workers employed in the Center for Eating Disorders, as well as a larger mono-disciplinary team across social workers in the entire Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• A professionally challenging work environment with skilled mono-disciplinary and multidisciplinary colleagues
• To make a difference for seriously ill children and young people who need support in several aid systems.
• The possibility to shape the planning of the treatment based on your social work knowledge and experience
• Teaching and supervision related to professional knowledge and experience

Salary and employment terms

Salary according to the collective agreement. Function and tasks in this position are for the Center for Eating Disorders as a whole with primary attachment and managerial reference to the clinic’s ward managers,

Employment is conditional upon, no later than the start date, a satisfactory child protection and criminal record check for public use.

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry covers the entire Region Zealand. In the region there are about 185,000 children and adolescents. The department consists of 8 clinical wards, and the individual wards have independent daily management, all reporting to the department management. There are about 300 employees. The department management and the management secretariat are located in Roskilde.

Further information

Contact the Eating Disorders Clinic, Chief Nurse Ninna Lundsgaard, [email protected] or Chief Physician Dasirije Ljoki,

[email protected]

Application

Application with documentation of education and previous employment is submitted electronically via ’apply for the job’.

Application deadline: 22 November 2026

Interviews: 24 November 2026

Employment is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory child’s certificate, Employment is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory criminal background check for public use.

Area of employment

The Region Zealand and Region Capital will on 1 January 2027 become Region Østdanmark as a result of the health reform. Your area of employment will be Region Østdanmark with all associated organizational units.

Read more about the significance of the area of employment on the Region Østdanmark’s website.

Starting salary for employees governed by a collective agreement

The region is obligated to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of the base salary, centrally set allowances and pension in the relevant collective agreement. In addition to the starting salary, the salary may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See the starting salary on the region’s website

About Mid- and West Zealand Hospital

At Mid- and West Zealand Hospital we work every day to promote a healthy life by preventing and treating in a coherent health effort. As a hospital we combine psychiatry and somatics. Our goal is that patients and citizens experience good and safe processes of high quality.

As an employee you will be part of a forward-thinking, professionally and organizationally robust hospital where we make a difference for the people who need us. Learning and development are part of daily life and occur in professionally committed communities. Also across departments.

Mid- and West Zealand Hospital covers a catchment area of about 230,000 residents. We have 766 beds and around 5,000 employees distributed across 20 departments, including 16 medical and psychiatric specialties.

We offer a solid research environment with 13 professors and a strong professional educational environment, where every year we welcome about 2,700 students, trainees and doctors in post-graduate training programs.