The Family Department's Reception is seeking a child and youth advisor.

Do you enjoy an exciting and varied daily life, where you help create a safe first contact for vulnerable children, youths and their families?

Then perhaps you are the one we are looking for.

We are seeking a colleague for the Family Department's Reception with start on 1 December 2026. The position is 37 hours.

The Family Department is spread over 2 sites. The reception has an office in the Family Department, Centrumpladsen 7, 2nd floor, 5700 Svendborg, which will be your workplace.

In the reception, we are the first entry point for children, young people and their families when there is a need for help and support. Our goal is to create security in the meeting with everyone who contacts us, and to build a trusting collaboration with the families, so we can together ensure the right help as early as possible.

Core tasks in the reception

• First contact to the Family Department – inquiries and notifications.
• Involvement of children and young people.
• Shift and back-up on duty in the Family Department's Reception.
• Advice and guidance to families, children and young people.
• Screening/assessment of notifications, and actions hereupon.
• Enter into collaboration with the professionals who notify.
• Initiate preventive and acute interventions.
• Sparring with cooperation partners.
• Qualitative handovers of cases to the Family Department's other teams.

We are looking for you who are wild about

• Acute tasks and new challenges
• Involving all children, youths and parents in their own case
• Working with safety plans for children and young people
• Coordination, planning and systematic case handling
• Being flexible and thriving in a daily life where days are not the same
• Integrity

About the job

In Svendborg we are determined to work together, which is evident in our Strategy Plan for Family, Children and Youth, and in Svendborg Municipality's Children and Youth Policy.

The Reception of the Family Department handles the initial authority intervention when there is concern for a child or a young person. We receive and assess notifications, perform 24-hour assessments and screenings, and handle acute cases, including conversations with children about violence and abuse and participation in interrogations, e.g., at the Child House South.

As a Child and Youth Advisor in the Reception, you can expect a varied and unpredictable daily life with administrative work, observations, citizen contact, planning and conducting meetings and conversations. We are looking for a curious and responsible colleague who can remain calm in difficult situations and who wants to be part of a team that lifts the first link in the social authority work.

About you

• You are trained social worker/social mediator
• You have broad experience from the children and youth area
• You love involving all children and youths
• You enjoy being challenged - you dare to set the agenda and take case and meeting leadership
• You work independently and are committed to close teamwork, both in your own team, in the department and across professional disciplines and sectors.
• You have good collaboration skills and love systematic social-educational work and coordinating case handling.
• You have worked with the Child Act and have extensive social-educational knowledge about children and youths.
• You have knowledge of the specialized area – including handicap-compensating support opportunities.
• You have good communication skills and administrative flair
• You have knowledge of ICS and DUBU

About us

The Family Department is a department of about 47 employees distributed across the following teams: reception, children, youth and the special team. The department is administratively supported by a professional secretariat.

The Family Department has a high professional level, and a leadership that is very close to each other.

In Family, Children and Youth we focus on the citizen-centered guiding principles

• Close to everyday life
• Collaboration and involvement
• Networks and civil society
• Visiting the citizen in their life

Therefore we work according to the principles of good professional practice

• Playmaker in cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Clear professional direction
• Common methods and tools
• Local, internal solutions
• Holistic focus
• Cost-consciousness

We offer

• A reception team of 5 skilled child and youth advisors who lift together. You will have your own cases, but you are not alone.
• A wonderful team looking forward to collaborating with you. A team that works well and closely together.
• A busy workplace that prioritizes a good working environment, psychological safety, professional sparring and, not least, a good mood.
• An department that dares to take other and new approaches to solving the core task.
• An department focused on professional quality and development.
• External supervision and weekly team meetings with professional sparring from colleagues and the manager.
• Introductory process and mentor at startup.
• A team focused on developing together and acquiring the knowledge necessary to perform our tasks. Well-being comes when we feel competent to perform our tasks.
• Flexible hours and the possibility of home working when tasks call for it.

About Svendborg Municipality

Svendborg Municipality is, in our view, a workplace of perfectly manageable size. We are small enough to be close to each other in a warm informal community with short command chains and without hidden agendas. And we are large enough to have room for ambitions, high professional standards and rich opportunities for development.

We love everyday life and insist that it should be nice to go to work. We are busy, but not too busy to help each other.

Our values are not just on paper; we actually use them as a compass every day. We meet each other at eye level, in dialogue and with trust, and together we create a safe framework where we can all solve our tasks independently, flexibly and responsibly.

Salary and employment

Salary and terms of employment in accordance with applicable collective agreement.

In Svendborg Municipality, the salary for this type of position typically ranges between 41,951.00 and 53,034.00 DKK per month at full-time employment. The salary includes pension, special holiday allowance and fixed additional payments. There may also be shift allowances and other special remunerations. It is important to note that your specific salary will be determined based on your experience, seniority and competencies and negotiated with the relevant professional organization.

The HR department will obtain a criminal record and a child criminal record for the applicant who is hired. It is a condition of employment that the certificates are satisfactory in relation to the position. The assessment is conducted by the Legal Department in collaboration with the area director.

Application deadline is 19 October 2026.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Interviews are held on 22 October 2026.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact: Head of Reception/Special Team Trine Erdmann, tel. 21646926

Svendborg Municipality is a smoke-free workplace. We want smoke-free work time to contribute to a healthy working environment for all employees.

Welcome to Svendborg - the capital of the archipelago!

Svendborg has a superb location in the middle of the most beautiful nature, at the edge of the South Funen Archipelago and with a mini-metropolis offering it all. We do not hesitate to proudly call Svendborg the cultural capital of Funen. We have a charming city center and a lively commercial town with theatres and museums as well as a rich association life.

Our kindergartens and primary schools are top-tier with a particular focus on movement and sport, and we have several higher educations that will soon be gathered in an attractive educational environment by the harbor. Svendborg is located in the middle of the country with half an hour to Odense and under two hours to Copenhagen and Aarhus. With about 60,000 inhabitants, Svendborg is Funen’s second-largest municipality.

Department: Family Department Centrumpladsen

Application deadline: 19 October 2026

Location: Centrumpladsen 7, 2nd floor, 5700, Svendborg