U-start seeks a team leader

U-start is Hvidovre municipality's school attendance team and we hope to get a skilled, creative and engaged team leader to join us. If you are passionate about leading a team that works with school communities, vulnerable children and their families, get excited about hands-on and development-supportive change work and just can't help thinking that developing new and creative interventions as well as cross-disciplinary collaboration is exciting, you should read on.

U-start is a cross-professional team with dedicated people who collaborate closely with the municipality's 9 primary schools to create movement and development in particularly stuck and complex cases where children and young people have problematic school attendance. The team consists of 8 colleagues anchored in different professional backgrounds and municipal centres (including social worker, psychologist, contact person, PPR-psychologist, family therapist) and a team leader (you) who works together on the cases.

We are looking for you as our team leader, if you have experience in leadership and/or school attendance work and think it could be exciting to lead in ensuring high quality in our task solving and support a warm, safe and acknowledging team culture, where we must dare to engage in each other's work.

In the team, collaboration, creativity and high professional standards are central values. We are focused on "what works" and we adaptively and continuously adjust the interventions accordingly and work into all the many life contexts and communities that make up the child's life.

The team's work is inspired by and developed on the basis of systemic and narrative core principles as well as AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization-based Integrative Treatment) as a framework for working with vulnerable children with complex problems, large networks and sometimes low motivation for help. The interventions often include parts of both family treatment, pedagogical interventions with children, class interventions and sparring and development with teacher teams.

The customized solutions are found through dialogue with the families and their professional network.

For us it is essential that you are passionate about working with children and young people and that we as a team succeed in our work and are supported in staying in work, which can sometimes challenge us emotionally.

You must thrive in complexity and a sometimes busy workday with varying tasks that point into many different contexts and positions. It requires that you are strongly rooted in your own professional discipline and at the same time curious about others - so you must thrive in working independently and to lift as a team. You must have the desire and courage to be creative and innovative, while maintaining overview and calm when there are challenges and obstacles.

You should have flair for organizational analysis and consultative process-facilitation skills. You should be ambitious and friendly as well as good at communicating – not least what you need help with.

Hos os får du

• A workplace dedicated to creating and delivering effective interventions for children, families and schools.
• A team where high professionalism and collegial support and cooperation are central values. A team where professional boundaries hardly matter and focus on the case very much.
• Opportunity to make a difference for vulnerable children and families
• Major influence on your task solving
• Good supervision and training opportunities

You will be employed at Poppelgården Family Centre with the primary task as team leader in U-start. Poppelgården Family Centre is Hvidovre Municipality's family treatment offer. There are 30 dedicated men and women who value their work community, filled with professional development, knowledge sharing, high spirits and a strong commitment to making a difference for children and families in vulnerable positions.

You will become part of a leadership team of 5, who work to create development and coherence across the centre and the municipality for both children and families and ourselves.

Application deadline is 18 October 2026. We will hold interviews on 22 October 2026 at Poppelgården Family Centre, Byvej 98, 2650 Hvidovre. The position is 37 hours and to be filled on 1 November 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

If you want to know more about the position or have further questions, you are welcome to contact head of Poppelgården Anna Blicher-Hansen at 2213 1856 or Ustart team member Pernille Solhøj Næstrup at 2283 3790. You can also read about Poppelgården Family Centre at Poppelgaarden.hvidovre.dk

Application deadline: 18 October 2026

Department: Byvej 90 2650 Hvidovre