Social worker/case manager at the Administration for Children and Family in Paamiut

Administration for Children and Family Paamiut is looking for a social worker/case handler

The position is a full-time position as a case handler within the authority area that works with children and young people

Working hours are from Monday – Friday (40 hours a week).

The Administration for Children and Family:

The Administration for Children and Family handles the authority area and is divided into two teams that handle all case processing for children and families. The tasks are carried out by all case handlers, including the preparation of social professional investigations, preparation of action plans, working with prevention, and handling cases, working with placed children and young people in foster families or residential institutions as well as aftercare.

The notification duty and emergency duty receive all notifications for the entire municipality and process them. In addition, they have case stems where measures have been initiated. The disability team works with children and young people who are covered by the disability regulation.

Your tasks will primarily consist of:

·Case processing of child cases, including the documentation of all relevant information

·Gathering relevant information for relevant instances depending on the purpose and need

·Preparation, revision of action plans, and assessment of whether the ongoing measures are still appropriate for the family

·Referral and visitation to relevant instances depending on the purpose and need

·Conducting conversations with citizens, children, and partners

·Coordination work in connection with visitations, visitation agreements, network meetings, family consultations, placements, changes of placement, home returns, etc.

·Assessment of whether a placement should be initiated. When initiating, a plan for gentle placement must be made in close collaboration with the parents and the placement site.

·Processing various types of applications, including additional expenses, projects, visit trips, boarding school stays, folk high school stays, changes of placement, home returns, aftercare, etc.

·Conducting annual supervision of placed children and young people

·Preparing support letters to possibly psychiatry, the Welfare Administration, or other instances.

·Preparation of social professional investigation

·Complying with and applying applicable regulations as well as internal competence plans and guidelines

·Participating in sparring meetings to ensure a uniform professional approach in daily work

·Contributing to a respectful and constructive collaboration in the team, department, and administration as well as with external partners

·Participating in the Notification Duty outside normal working hours

·Other tasks as agreed with the department head

As a case handler, you will be responsible for your own case stem of about 30-50 cases, depending on personnel resources. You are among other things responsible for establishing a good collaboration with both our internal partners, Youth Center, foster family consultants, and external partners (Police, health care, schools, day care institutions, residential institutions, foster families, etc.).

In addition, you are responsible for ensuring that the legislation in the area is complied with.

There is group supervision with teams once a month, where there is also the possibility of individual supervision as needed. In addition, there is close collaboration with the department head in connection with professional sparring.

There is an opportunity to take courses and further education if it is relevant to daily work.

We expect:

That you are a trained social worker or within the social field and have a broad knowledge of case processing of child cases, including in the documentation of relevant information after conversations, holding meetings, and upon receiving various forms of correspondence.

We expect that you are used to conducting various forms of conversations, are trustworthy, not reserved, and preferably have knowledge of various forms of conversation techniques with citizens, children, and partners. It is important that you have ambitions and are passionate about the profession. Can work independently and can be part of a team where collaboration is the key word. You must be adaptable, accessible, and mentally robust, as the days can be somewhat unpredictable. You will be part of the development of the administration, where we expect you to be solution-oriented and able to provide constructive criticism.

In connection with the work consisting of about 80% administration, you must have a good knowledge of the use of IT systems and be good at formulating yourself in writing.

It can be expected that there may be travel activities in connection with supervision, so you must also be able to participate

Criminal and Child Certificate:

The position is covered by the law on the obligation to obtain a criminal and child certificate. According to the law, employment can only begin when the municipality has received a satisfactory criminal and child certificate. We must therefore point out that the start date can only be agreed upon when the municipality has received a child certificate from the National Police as well as a criminal certificate from the Police.

The child certificate is obtained by the municipality with the consent of the individual, while the criminal certificate is obtained by the individual from the Police

Salary and employment conditions:

Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with the applicable agreement between the Greenland Self-Government, according to the agreement/contract applicable at the time of commencement between the Greenland Self-Government and the relevant negotiating organization.

The employment will be subject to a 3-month probation period.

Housing:

There will be the possibility of assigning staff housing for the position, for which a deposit and rent, utilities, etc. are paid according to the applicable rules for rent payment in the Greenland Self-Government and the municipality's properties, etc. in Greenland. If permanent staff housing cannot be made available immediately upon commencement, employees entitled to temporary housing will be offered a temporary vacant housing, for which rent, utilities, etc. are paid according to the above. For further information about rent including utilities, etc., please refer to the information on: www.iserit.gl

The start date depends on when there is staff housing available. A relocation travel and moving of belongings will be provided according to applicable rules.

Further information can be obtained from:

If the position interests you, you are welcome to contact for further information about the position and associated tasks to:

Department Head Estella Buhrkall, tel. +299 36 70 38 or email: ks12esbu@sermersooq.gl

Application:

Application marked with Job no. 1200-26, and attached educational certificate and documentation of previous employment, etc. must be uploaded before the deadline.

How to apply:

Applications must be sent electronically via the link at the bottom of this page, where you can attach your application and CV.

Note:

We do not accept applications in paper or emails, please send your application electronically with the job posting.

Application deadline: December 4, 2026