Supervisor for Foster Parents

The Social Authority is seeking a supervisor for foster parents. Foster parents undertake a significant and important task to ensure that children and young people placed outside their homes receive the best possible care and support. This can sometimes be a challenging task, and foster parents may need to discuss the situation and talk about how they can manage the caregiving responsibilities. To prevent breakdowns early in the placement and to ensure that foster families and children have the best conditions for a successful placement, we are looking for a supervisor who will provide supervision to municipal foster families.

About the position

You will become part of the Social Authority's Foster Family Team, which consists of 5 consultants who, among other things, conduct basic courses for new foster parents and qualification courses for municipal foster families, as well as support municipal foster family consultants with advice, guidance, and supervision, as well as conducting case management courses.

• As a supervisor, your primary tasks will consist of: Providing individual and group supervision to foster families.
• Coordinate the supervision offerings.
• Provide advice and guidance to foster families on how to handle the child's and young person's behavior or issues, such as reactions related to contact with biological parents, outwardly aggressive behavior, grief, or trauma.
• Provide supervision on how foster families can work with the child's/young person's action plan in collaboration with the placing municipality.
• Provide advice, guidance, and support to foster families regarding conflict management.
• Develop teaching materials for group supervision and conduct group supervision.
• Participate in the planning of mandatory continuing education days for foster families in collaboration with consultants in the foster family sector.
• Collaboration with municipal foster family consultants regarding the supervision offers.
• Provide support to municipal foster care consultants or municipal supervisors who conduct supervision for foster families.
• Ad-hoc tasks.

About you

It would be ideal if you have extensive experience in providing supervision and group supervision to individuals working with children and young people, and thus can offer foster parents advice and guidance on how to best help a child thrive, as well as supervision and counseling regarding thoughts and feelings related to the caregiving task.

You have a holistic approach to the individual and can provide competent guidance and advice on, for example, care, setting boundaries, and collaboration, as well as how to handle difficult situations with a child or a young person.

• We expect that you: Have a relevant education in the social field, e.g. as an educator, social worker, psychologist, or similar.
• Has a relevant further education in supervision, preferably within a solution-focused and mentalization-based approach.
• Has knowledge of social legislation.
• Has knowledge of the placement area, including preferably experience working with placed children and young people.
• Has extensive professional knowledge about vulnerable children and young people and their reactions.
• Has knowledge of the foster family area and preferably experience as a family foster consultant.
• Is an engaged person with strong collaboration skills, who can also work independently and loyally based on shared values and guidelines.
• Is good at creating an overview in a busy everyday life and can work systematically and act in acute situations.
• Is open about your own work tasks and is proactive in seeking support and learning.
• Has good communication skills.
• Is flexible.
• Is bilingual in Greenlandic and Danish.

About us

The Social Authority is divided into 5 departments: The Prevention Department Paarisa, the Day and Referral Department, the Department for Advice to Caseworkers, the Finance Department, and the Secretariat. The position is anchored in the Department for Advice to Caseworkers, which consists of various professional teams that support municipalities' case processing in the area of children and youth as well as foster care. In addition, we support the Child and Family Centers and Family Houses, and conduct training in family group conferencing and courses for foster parents.

Start date

April 1, 2026, or by further agreement.

The application deadline is February 16, 2026.

Job interviews are expected to be held immediately afterwards.

Salary and employment conditions

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to relocation travel and moving expenses, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement in force at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

Housing

No staff housing is provided for the position. If an applicant already has staff housing through employment in the Self-Government, the right to assigned staff housing is retained. The staff housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon termination of the employment relationship.

Additional information

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact department head Ole Christiansen at tel. +299 53 87 99 or by email ochn@nanoq.gl

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