Outreach social worker for Forsorgscenter Toften

A position is available for a permanent role as well as a position for a 1-year educational trainee.

Do you want to help support people in creating and maintaining a life in their own home?

Forsorgscenter Toften is an autonomous institution under KFUM’s Social Work and has a service agreement with Slagelse Municipality. We work with people in vulnerable positions where homelessness, mental vulnerability, substance use issues, loneliness, and economic and social challenges are often part of a complex life picture.

We work from a values-based approach and a clear ethical profile. For us, it is the citizen who sets the task, and the task that sets the team.

Across Forsorgscenter Toften we work trauma-informed. This means that we are curious about what lies behind the citizen’s reactions and behavior, and we focus on creating safety, trust, and predictability in the encounter with the individual.

We are seeking a field-based social/educational professional who is passionate about relationship work, independence, and making a concrete difference together with the citizen in their own life and home.

About the position

As a field-based employee you will be part of Toften’s efforts for citizens who live in, or are on their way to, their own housing.

You will as a field-based employee be attached to either the social-pedagogical support under the Social Services Act §85 or our Housing First initiative, where we work with housing support methods CTI (Critical Time Intervention) and ICM (Intensive Case Management)

Common to the initiatives is that we base our work on the individual citizen’s wishes, needs and goals.

You must therefore be able to work in front of, beside and behind the citizen

• Walk ahead when the citizen needs concrete support, guidance and help to gain overview.
• Walk beside when things must be learned, tested and solved together.
• Step behind when the citizen can take control themselves, and your role increasingly becomes to support, motivate and sustain development.

The goal is not to take over the citizen’s life, but to support the citizen in mastering it.

A workday that rarely looks the same as the previous one

As a field-based employee, a large part of your work takes place where the citizen’s life happens. This can be in the citizen’s home, at the municipality, at the doctor’s, or together with other relevant actors in the citizen’s network.

The tasks may include

• Support the citizen in establishing and maintaining their own housing, create structure and mastery in daily life, including ADL and development of their own skills
• Support the citizen regarding finances, mail, appointments and contact with public authorities.
• Support the citizen in building and maintaining social relations and participation in the local community
• Coordinate and build bridges to relevant partners and support the citizen in receiving the right help across the system
• Work recovery-oriented based on the citizen’s own hopes, wishes and resources – also in periods when the citizen’s life becomes unstable or challenging
• Document the efforts and work systematically with goals and sub-goals together with the citizen

Some days require a structured plan. Other days the plan may need to change due to other arising needs. Therefore you must thrive in a job where the relationship is your most important tool, and where professionalism also means being flexible and seeing opportunities rather than limitations.

We are looking for a colleague who

• Has a relevant social-science education, e.g., pedagogue, social worker or another relevant background, with experience with socially vulnerable people, homelessness, psychiatry and/or substance use
• Has knowledge of Housing First, CTI and/or ICM, or is eager to learn and develop within the methods
• Can work trauma-informed, recovery-oriented and harm-reducing and meets the citizen with curiosity, respect and an understanding of what lies behind behavior and reactions
• Is strong in relationship work, can motivate and support without taking over, in respect of the citizen’s choice, pace and self-determination
• Can work independently, maintain calm and overview in changing situations and at the same time see the value of professional sparring with a strong team
• Can collaborate and coordinate with authorities, treatment systems, health care and other relevant partners
• Works in a structured and professional manner with documentation, where goals, follow-up and status are a meaningful part of Toften’s fidelity
• Is flexible and thrives with a field-based workday where tasks are planned based on the citizen’s needs and where a large portion of the work takes place independently in the citizen’s own home
• Can and will contribute positively to the work environment through professional reflection, supervision, sparring, good humor and dialogue

A driving license is necessary, as a substantial part of the work takes place with the citizens.

We offer

A meaningful everyday life with a high degree of independence and the opportunity to make a real difference for people in vulnerable positions. You will become part of a committed and multidisciplinary community with high ceilings, where we believe that people can, and where we also dare to be curious about our own professional practice.

Professional sparring with colleagues and management as a natural part of daily life, with room for various perspectives, humor and professional development. We share a trauma-informed professional direction that forms the basis for our meeting with the citizens and for the way we develop our practice.

What is common to our work is that the citizen sets the task and the task sets the team.

Employment terms

Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement between KL and the trade organization.

Further information about the position can be obtained from team leader Rikke Olsen at telephone 21 18 65 46 or employee Pia Terkelsen at telephone 30 95 40 22. You can also seek further information about Toften on the website .

Application with documentation of education and previous employment should be sent via Slagelse Municipality’s website and uploaded electronically. The application must be received by us as soon as possible .

Deadline

• 18 October 2026.

All who are invited for an interview must be willing to undergo a profiling analysis. Interviews will take place on 22 October 2026.

Interviews will take place at Holbækvej 16 in Slagelse. Applications and attachments are stored for a maximum of 14 days after selection, after which all information is deleted.