Two pedagogical assistants for Spiren

Application deadline

October 18, 2026

Place of employment

FRC Children

Start date

December 1, 2026 or as soon as possible

Contact

Department Manager Lene Helvig Nielsen, mobile 2444 0621

Employment terms

2 full-time positions and permanent employment

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Would you like to help create safe, developing and meaningful frameworks for children and young people with different support needs? Spiren seeks two educated, engaged and professionally curious pedagogical assistants who want to become part of a social- and special-pedagogical environment, where relationships, well-being, development and care are at the center.

About Spiren

Spiren is a respite service for children and young people aged 0-18 with various physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.

Spiren is organizationally placed under the Family and Counseling Center in Randers Municipality

Children and young people come in individual rotation programs, which are planned based on each family's need for respite. This means that we in periods work closely and intensively with the individual child or young person during the stay, while several weeks may pass before the child or the young person comes again. This requires continuity, relationship-building and knowledge sharing across stays.

Our overarching ambition is to create a specialized offering with safe and development-promoting frameworks, where the individual child or young person experiences well-being, participation, personal mastery and the greatest possible degree of self- and co-determination.

A target group with different resources and needs

In Spiren you meet a broad and diverse target group. This means that resources, functional level and need for support vary from child to child and from young person to young person.

Some children and young people are highly self-reliant and primarily need pedagogical support, structure, verbal guidance and help navigating social contexts and daily activities.

Others have more extensive disabilities and need close support in daily life. Here the task may also involve personal care, transfers and practical caregiving tasks.

Across the target group there may be a need for support in relation to, among other things, communication, structure and predictability, social interaction, emotional regulation and sensory processing.

Your pedagogical task

As a pedagogical assistant in Spiren you will be an important part of the children’s and young people’s time with us. You must help create recognizable, safe and meaningful frameworks and at the same time be able to adapt your pedagogical approach to the individual child’s or young person’s daily form, resources and needs.

The work spans a broad range and includes different social- and special-pedagogical tasks, tailored to the individual child’s or young person’s resources, prerequisites and support needs. Tasks may include structure and guidance, support for participation and development as well as personal care and practical caregiving tasks. You must therefore be able to work independently and systematically, while actively participating in professional collaboration with colleagues.

The everyday life in Spiren is varied, and activities take their starting point from the individual child’s or young person’s needs, interests and resources. This can include creative activities, outings, playground and car rides. There is also room for curiosity, creativity and to seize the child’s or young person’s initiatives and experiment with activities that make sense for the individual.

An important part of the work is also to observe, document and reflect on the pedagogical effort, so our practice can continually develop and adapt to the individual child or young person.

Collaboration with the child’s or young person’s parents and other relevant partners is also an important part of the pedagogical task and contributes to coherence and continuity around the individual.

Our professional foundation

Our pedagogical work is based on neuropedagogy and KRAP, and we work with individual approaches based on ASK, Low Arousal and TEACCH-inspired structured pedagogy.

We place emphasis on an appreciative and resource-focused approach, where we are curious about the child’s or young person’s resources, needs and mastery strategies and how we as professionals with this basis can support well-being, development and mastery.

We are looking for you who...

• is a trained pedagogical assistant and wants to work within the social- and special-pedagogical area
• meets children and young people with presence, care, curiosity and respect
• can see resources and development possibilities - also when a child or young person has extensive support needs
• can adapt your communication and pedagogical approach to the individual child or young person
• can maintain calm and an overview in situations where the child or young person needs the adult to create safety and structure
• is prepared that the work includes pedagogical, practical and caregiving tasks
• works independently and systematically and at the same time sees professional and cross-disciplinary collaboration as an important part of the core task
• can articulate yourself professionally both orally and in writing
• is flexible, stable and actively contributes to a good professional and collegial environment.

With us you get...

• a safe and development-oriented working environment, where professional sparring, open dialogue and collegial support are a natural part of everyday life. We emphasize a work community where we take responsibility for both joint task solving and each other’s well-being
• an engaged professional community with room for differences, where we help each other and are curious about our own and each other’s practice
• a workplace with a clear social- and special-pedagogical foundation
• a daily life with a varied target group and diverse pedagogical tasks
• a workplace in scenic surroundings with good opportunities for outdoor life, movement and activities both on and off site
• influence on task solving and the opportunity to bring your professionalism, creativity and ideas into play
• colleagues and management who focus on high professional quality in work with the children and the youths.

In the Family and Counseling Center we are currently implementing a new mindset “The Organization Thinks Together”.

That means that we increasingly want to involve employees in decisions and give them room to be co-creators of daily pedagogical practice.

Practical information

Position

Pedagogical assistant

Number of positions

2

Working hours

37 hours per week

Start date

December 1 or as soon as possible

Employment form

Full-time position

Working hours

Rotating morning and evening shifts and work every other weekend

Driving license

A driving license for a car is required

Address

Støvringgårdvej 43, 8930 Randers NØ

Salary and employment terms follow the applicable collective agreement.

Application deadline

October 18, 2026

Employment interviews

October 26, 2026

Upon employment, a child and criminal record check will be obtained.

Contact

Do you have questions about the position?

You are welcome to contact Department Manager Lene Helvig Nielsen.

Phone: 24 44 06 21

(weekdays 08:00-15:00)