The Social Authority is seeking a supervisor for foster parents.

Foster parents take on a large and important task, so that children and young people who are placed outside their homes receive the best possible care and support. This can sometimes be a difficult task, and foster parents may need to discuss the situation and talk about how they can manage the care task. 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 be part of the Social Agency's Foster Family Team, which consists of 5 consultants in total along with a supervisor, who among other things conducts basic courses for new foster parents and qualification courses for municipal foster families, as well as supports 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.
• Coordinating the supervision offers.
• Providing advice and guidance to foster families on how to handle the child and young person's behavior or issues, e.g., reactions related to contact with biological parents, outwardly reactive behavior, grief, or trauma.
• Providing supervision on how foster families can work with the child/young person's action plan in collaboration with the placing municipality.
• Providing advice, guidance, and support to foster families regarding conflict management.
• Developing teaching materials for group supervision as well as conducting group supervision.
• Participating in the planning of mandatory continuing education days for foster families in collaboration with consultants in the foster family area.
• Collaborating with municipal foster family consultants regarding the supervision offers.
• Providing support to municipal foster family 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 give foster parents advice and guidance on how to best help a child thrive, as well as supervision and advice regarding thoughts and feelings related to the care 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 young person.

We expect you to:

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

About us
The Social Agency is divided into 5 departments: The Prevention Department Paarisa, The Day and Placement Department, The Department for Advice to Case Handlers, The Economics Department, and The Secretariat. The position is anchored in The Department for Advice to Case Handlers, which consists of various professional teams that support municipalities' case handling in the child and youth area as well as the foster family area. In addition, we support the Child and Family Centers and Family Houses, and conduct training in family counseling as well as courses for foster parents.

Start date
November 1, 2026, or by further agreement.

The application deadline is September 25, 2026
Employment interviews are expected to be held immediately thereafter.

Salary and employment conditions
Salary and employment conditions, including the right to relocation and moving expenses, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement applicable 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 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.

Further information
If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact department head Mia Nielsen at tel. +299 272505 or by email mine@nanoq.gl

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