Public health nurses for the Health Visiting Service in Silkeborg

Make a difference for children and families – become a health visitor in Silkeborg in a permanent position.

Do you want to use your professional expertise where it makes a concrete difference – close to children, youths and families?

In the Health Visiting Service in Silkeborg Municipality we are seeking health visitors for two permanent positions of 34-37 hours per week, as we are both expanding and one of our skilled health visitors has pursued new paths.

With us you will be part of a strong collegial community with high professionalism, systematic sparring and willingness to develop the initiatives – from early detection and connection to prevention and health promotion across areas.

About us

The Health Visiting Service in Silkeborg consists of 28 dedicated health visitors, two team leaders, administrative staff and a lead health visitor. We are a well-functioning group with strong team spirit, where we value diversity and work from an open and trusting dialogue culture.

We are anchored in the Children and Family Department, where we collaborate closely with the family and child disability area as well as daycare centers. In our work we focus on early detection and intervention, health promotion and prevention, and we have a close multidisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration, which we continuously develop – e.g. in collaboration with PPL, Dental Care and Family and Youth Contact. We work from a shared professional stance and Silkeborg Municipality’s coherent Children and Youth Policy (0–18 years), where we together create a good childhood and adolescence.

Your role and opportunities

You will become part of a developing workplace where your competencies are actively used. In 2026/27 we will, among other things, work with leveling and differentiation of our services based on the new national guidance. In addition, we have launched a clinic offer as a new initiative in the Health Visiting Service. We focus on methods such as ADBB and Understand Your Baby, and to support our high professionalism we have this year a focus on joint competency uplift for all health visitors around early attachment.

We are organized into four teams with 6-7 health visitors in each team, who work in a committed collaboration and work community on the tasks of the individual teams, particularly and across the entire group. Knowledge sharing and sparring are a natural part of the work, and we prioritize frameworks for a professionally strong and safe environment. We are a health visiting service with skilled and dedicated staff who are passionate about the core task and about making a difference for children and families.

We offer

• A structured introductory and mentoring program tailored to your needs.
• A position with a combination of infant district and school work as well as a consulting function for daycare in the district.
• Differentiated individual and group-based offers to vulnerable families.
• Special initiatives such as Marte Meo, Weight in Balance – an initiative for children, youths with overweight and their families, group for mothers with postnatal reactions, Young mothers group, Safe mothers groups, Fathers’ playroom, etc.
• Professional steering groups – where everyone is involved in professional development, updating and disseminating to colleagues.
• An workplace with high professionalism in development and change, where your contributions are important.
• An workplace with a focus on a healthy working environment and an informal atmosphere with room for humor, where mutual trust and respect are important.
• Regular supervision in groups or individually as well as sparring in the team.
• Fantastic, skilled and engaged colleagues.
• Use of the method ADBB and the tool Understand Your Baby.
• A culture and ethos in Health Visiting Service characterized by you becoming part of both a formal and social community.
• Openness and clear professional leadership close at hand in daily life.

We expect that you

• Are a trained health visitor, preferably with experience.
• Are professionally engaged and ready for rethinking and development of the Health Visiting Service.
• Have the desire, energy and commitment to be involved in preventive and health-promoting work among children and youths, both in monocultural and interdisciplinary tasks.
• Can prioritize and plan in a daily life with many balls in the air in different arenas.
• Work loyally, flexibly and independently within the framework and terms we have.

Lød and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement and local pay agreement.

Further information

If you want to know more about the job, you are welcome to contact Team Leader Anne Harbo Bjørnskov at telephone 4029 4415 or Team Leader Helle Raben Refsgaard at telephone 2428 5548.

Application deadline Monday 16 November 2026 . Employment interviews are expected to be held Monday 23 November.

The positions start 1 January 2027.

We prefer that you submit your application online.

Click on Apply. Attach your application and relevant documents.

We will obtain a public criminal record and a child safeguarding record for the person we wish to hire.