Team Leader in the Children and Family Department, Rødovre Municipality

The Children and Family Department in Rødovre Municipality is seeking a team leader for Team North and Sammen om Familien, commencing 1 January 2027.

About us

The authority area consists of a Special Team with 7 child and youth advisors, a Visitation Team with 5 child and youth advisors, 2 senior child and youth advisors, the Children and Youth Teams North and South with 8 and 9 child and youth advisors in each team, Sammen om Familien with 3 job and family advisors, as well as a Family Foster Care Team with 3 foster care consultants. In addition, we have a social work contract negotiator and a development consultant.

As Team Leader in North you will be responsible for 8 child and youth advisors in North, as well as 3 job and family advisors in Sammen om Familien (SOF). SOF is partly anchored in the Job Center.

The family area also includes a family house, a youth house, support and contact persons, special education offerings and a child care house. We collaborate closely with PPR, the health visitor service, as well as the school and childcare sectors.

If you wish to help support a unified department with high social work ambitions, where we value strong camaraderie and are driving visionary cross-departmental development plans, then you may be our new team leader. You will become part of a leadership team consisting of the head of the authority area and in total three team leaders.

In 2024 we decided to implement an organizational change to better ensure a good working environment with present leadership, professional quality and compliance with the law, while implementing the Child Act, DUBU and ICS.

Team leaders have a special role to ensure high quality in daily work, both social work-wise and legally, and in connection with the financial framework. The team leaders are responsible for both professional and personnel leadership. It is important that you have an open, energetic and recognizing leadership style, where you listen to the staff.

As a team leader you will also cover the on-call duty for the social 24-hour service every 3 weeks.

Your tasks will include

• Operations and personnel management, including recruitment, performance reviews (MUS), vacation planning and sick leave.
• Ensure the well-being and development of staff
• Contribute to the continued implementation of the Child Act, including strengthened child involvement.
• Continued implementation of ICS and DUBU
• Professional sparring and meeting facilitation
• Case reviews to ensure quality and economy
• Quality assurance of e.g. child welfare investigations, action plans, B&U committee and decisions
• Availability for sparring with the on-call 24-hour duty every 3 weeks

We expect that you have

• A degree as a social worker
• Experience with authority work in the children and youth area, preferably regarding the methods we use.
• A presence, curious, patient and inclusive approach
• Ability to navigate and prioritize in a complex workload with a high pace while maintaining composure
• Holistic orientation with a view to cross-disciplinary collaboration – preferably regarding the Job Center, SSP, transition from child to adult and UKN.
• Ability to promote constructive collaboration with child/young person, parents and partners
• Good humor and a positive attitude

As a team leader with us you get

• An opportunity to shape the team and think creatively
• Task management across various interdisciplinary areas
• Strategic competency development
• Work with a high degree of influence and responsibility
• An orientation program for a good start
• Close collaboration with skilled staff and leaders
• A workplace that prioritizes collegial community, with a focus on joint task resolution.

Salary and employment terms

In accordance with the applicable collective agreement and by agreement with the negotiating organization.

Positions are to be filled by 1 January 2027.

If you want to know more

See more at www.rk.dk . You are also welcome to contact the head of the authority area Ida Matthes at tel. 3076 7367 or team leader Bettina Sejr Borch tel. 3076 7446.

Application

Submit your online application with relevant attachments and references no later than 19/11. Click the button 'Apply online'/'Søg jobbet' to send your application. We expect to hold 1st interviews on 24/11 and 2nd interviews on 26/11. Cases will be included in the interviews.

Rødovre Municipality has a smoke-free work environment. We view diversity as a strength. Therefore we encourage everyone regardless of age, gender, disability, lifestyle, religion, or ethnic origin to apply.

Rødovre Municipality is a geographically small and centrally located municipality with a high level of ambition for its citizens and the city. For this reason as well, we are an attractive and exciting place to work, and we see diversity as strength. Therefore we encourage everyone regardless of age, gender, disability, lifestyle, religion or ethnic origin to apply.

We offer our employees a wellbeing and health program including e.g. physiotherapy and group training. Note that Rødovre Municipality has smoke- and nicotine-free working hours, which means that we may not smoke or use devices such as vapes or snus during working hours.

Rødovre Municipality is a geographically small and centrally located municipality with a high level of ambition for its citizens and the city. For this reason as well, we are an attractive and exciting workplace, and we see diversity as a strength. Therefore we encourage everyone regardless of age, gender, disability, lifestyle, Religion or ethnic origin to apply for the job.

We offer our employees a wellbeing and health program including e.g. physiotherapy and group training. Note that Rødovre Municipality has smoke- and nicotine-free working hours, which means that we may not smoke or use similar devices like vapes or snus during working hours.

Rødovre Municipality is a geographically small and centrally located municipality with a high level of ambition for its citizens and the city. For this reason as well, we are an attractive and exciting workplace, and we see diversity as a strength. Therefore we encourage everyone regardless of age, gender, disability, lifestyle, religion or ethnic origin to apply for the job.

We offer our employees a wellbeing and health program including e.g. physiotherapy and group training. Note that Rødovre Municipality has smoke- and nicotine-free working hours, which means that we may not smoke or use similar devices like vapes or snus during working hours.

Our positions are advertised on a full-time basis unless stated otherwise in the job posting.