Visiting Officer for Social Services

Are you interested in becoming our new colleague?

There is now an opportunity to become part of an engaged and experienced visitation team, as we are looking for a new colleague as of January 1, 2027 for Team Elderly.

The position will partly be as a discharge coordinator and partly with other visitation tasks.

Team Elderly is a part of Social Service that also consists of the Assistive Devices Team, the Assistive Devices Depot and the Disability and Psychiatry Team. Team Elderly consists of 11 visitators and 1 dementia coordinator.

Team Elderly handles visitation for holistic care, rehabilitation, personal and practical assistance, training, elderly- and nursing homes etc. We attach importance to developing our collaboration across professional centers so that the efforts for the individual citizen become coherent and holistic.

The visitators’ tasks include, among others, as described below

• Discharge coordinator.
• Visitation for holistic care under the Elderly Act
• Visitation for personal and practical help under the Service Act
• Case processing under the Service Act § 94 – self-appointed helper
• Visitation for care and special dental care
• Case processing in connection with guardianship
• Visitation for escort scheme, accessibility transportation etc.
• Case processing in connection with care- and elderly housing as well as temporary placements
• Case processing in connection with care of relatives, care allowance and nursing supplies
• Interdisciplinary collaboration

Professional and personal competencies

• Trained nurse, occupational therapist or physiotherapist
• Sees the value in interdisciplinary collaboration
• Knowledge of the health agreement between municipalities and the Region
• Can handle complicated conversation processes with respect and attentiveness to other people
• Sees citizens and relatives as active collaborators
• Is structured and systematic in task management
• Can maintain an overview, judgment and decisiveness in a changing everyday life
• Can reflect on own and others’ practice with a view to both personal development and professional development in the team
• Has good communication skills, both spoken and written
• Proficient in IT at user level, we use Nexus
• Has knowledge of the legislation in the area
• Driver’s license – there are cars available with us
• Preferably visitation training or other experience with authority work

We offer

• Exciting 37-hour-per-week position, or as agreed
• Good introduction
• Professionally skilled and engaged colleagues
• Management that places a high value on dialogue, inclusion and trust
• Professional sparring
• Humor, job satisfaction and professional challenges
• Self-scheduling and flexible working hours, with regard to the joint task solution
• Possibility of home-working

Salary and employment terms

Salary will be clarified with the union authorized for negotiations.

For further information regarding the position, please contact the DSR shop steward Catrine Brygger [email protected] or Head of Social Service Hanne Hansen [email protected]

Job interviews are expected to be held on 26 November.

In Sorø Municipality we see diversity as a strength, and we encourage all interested to apply for the position regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion and ethnic origin. Our values are: credibility, engagement and job satisfaction, dialogue, openness and recognition.

The municipality has just over 30,000 inhabitants and is located in the middle of Zealand in a scenic area with lakes and forests. Sorø Municipality has about 2,500 employees – and moreover we are a smoke-free workplace.