Two maternity-leave substitutes sought for the Packaging Team and the Production Team at CHB

Are you passionate about creating meaningful employment and development opportunities for citizens with special needs? Can you support citizens' personal development and work purposefully with sheltered employment? Do you dream of combining pedagogy, sheltered employment and cross-sector collaboration in an exciting maternity leave vacancy?

If you answer 3 x YES and also want to work with and for citizens with mental and physical disabilities - then perhaps you are the one we are looking for as a maternity leave replacement!

About Center for Brain Injury & Employment

Center for Brain Injury and Employment (CHB) is part of Aabenraa Municipality and is aimed at young people and adults with acquired or congenital brain injury, mental vulnerability as well as citizens with physical or mental disabilities.

We host around 250 citizens and 180 employees spread across seven sites in Aabenraa Municipality. The center consists of four departments, each with its own department head, from which we run residential facilities in Tinglev and Kliplev, provide home-based support for citizens in their own homes, and offer sheltered employment on two sites. In addition, we have citizens in activity and social opportunities, on the specially organized youth education (STU) and adult and special education (VSU).

Our work is based on the municipality's development strategy “The good life together” with a focus on the core tasks: Health, Coping and Community Creation.

CHB's vision is: We are a “We”! We are: attractive, competent and co-creating.

We are a workplace with room for development, where culture and job satisfaction go hand in hand.

As we say: ”It should be fun to be here – but we are not here for fun.”

We work from a rehabilitative and appreciative approach, where citizens' resources, wishes and potentials are central.

About the job

Employment is seeking two engaged and professionally strong maternity leave replacements for our employment offer:

• Team Packaging at Kilen – start 1 January 2027
• Team Production in Hærvejshuset – start 1 February 2027

Both positions are initially on 37 hours per week.

Team Packaging – Kilen (Aabenraa)

In Team Packaging, about 25 citizens work with various packaging and assembly tasks for external partners. Tasks include sorting, counting, quality control, labeling, repackaging, and packing goods for dispatch. The work tasks are organized individually to support each citizen's participation, mastery, and sense of contributing to a shared production.

Citizens in Team Packaging are seeking a maternity leave replacement who

• Is good at listening
• Is strong and not afraid to get involved and lift boxes
• Has a good sense of humor

Team Production – Hærvejshuset (Rødekro)

Team Production typically includes about 30 citizens who undertake various tasks for a wide range of companies, including printers, manufacturing companies and stores. Tasks are varied, from assembly to labeling a product, repackaging, sorting, counting tasks, and envelope stuffing, etc. The focus is on creating a structured and meaningful everyday life, where citizens experience community, success and opportunities to develop their skills.

Citizens in Team Production seek a maternity leave replacement who

• Has a good mood and likes to use humor at work
• Can juggle many tasks but also can “sit on their hands”
• Is present and good at listening

For both positions, you will be part of an interprofessional collaboration with colleagues, relatives and other partners around the citizens' development and well-being.

We have a strong focus on developing each citizen's work capacity, personal and social skills, and you will be responsible for planning and carrying out individual and group-based tasks and activities for the citizens.

We work based on each citizen's personal and developing goals.

About you

We expect that you

• Are a trained pedagogue – preferably with experience in the special education and employment field
• Can create structure, security and predictability and work systematically to build safe and recognizable frameworks for the citizens and can support their daily life with clear guidance and structure in everyday life
• Are strong in relationships and appreciative in your approach and able to build trusting relationships with citizens with different prerequisites and meet them with respect, clarity and calm.
• Value good collegial relationships and actively contribute to creating a culture characterized by job satisfaction, professional curiosity and mutual respect in our team.
• Want to work in a co-governing team with a high degree of participation and responsibility in your tasks. It is an important part of our culture where we emphasize collaboration, trust and shared responsibility.

Additionally, we dream that you

• Reflect on your own and colleagues' practice
• Have a professional foundation that can be seen in your practice and documentation
• Look beyond citizens' behavior and meet them with curiosity and understanding
• Are proficient in IT at user level; we work in Nexus and document professional interventions and work systematically with goals and sub-goals.
• Are fluent in Danish in writing and speech
• Have a driver's license, as you will be involved in citizen transportation to and from employment.

We offer

• Colleagues who are passionate about working with citizens within the employment framework
• A values-based, healthy and development-oriented workplace
• A workplace that puts the work environment at the forefront
• An environment where there is room for creative thoughts/solutions, and thinking outside the box is welcome
• A good laugh – even on days that can be difficult to find.

Salary and employment terms

Both maternity leave replacements are initially on 37 hours per week, and they are desired to be filled from 01.01.27 at Kilen, Kilen 53, 6200 Aabenraa and 01.02.27 at Hærvejshuset, Vestergade 14, 6230 Rødekro. The working hours in Employment are Monday to Friday from 07:30 to 16:00. There may be occasional evening events during the year. You must have a driving license for a car.

Salary and employment terms are governed by the applicable collective agreement between the Danish Association of Municipalities and the bargaining organization. Prior to employment, a criminal record check will be obtained, and employment is conditional on it being satisfactory.

Further information

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact department head Mette Svendsen at mobile: 2485 7512.

Application

Send your application and relevant attachments no later than 11.11.26. Employment interviews are expected to be held on 18.11.26. References will be collected after agreement with the candidate. Expected start no later than 01.01.27 and 01.02.27.

You can read more about Center for Brain Injury & Employment on our website or by visiting our Facebook for the Brain Injury Department .

You can also see our film about the center's work or listen to our song.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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