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18,000+ live jobsBehavioral Scientist B (Basic Psychologist/ Orthopedagogue) | 24 - 32 hours | Ambulant team Roermond & Venlo
Hybrid in Roermond·Full-time·Added 18 days ago (last checked 22 Oct)
Our summary
- Salary
- €4,119 - €6,224 a month
- Work mode
- Hybrid, Roermond
- Contract
- Permanent contract, full-time hours
- Languages
- Dutch




Skills
This job advert was originally written in Dutch.
The role
Are you looking for a meaningful job in which you play an important role in shaping the ambulant (treatment) trajectories? Then come work as a behavioral scientist at Pactum!
What you'll do
As a behavioral scientist in the Roermond-Venlo region, you play a crucial role within ambulant assistance. You are the substantive sparring partner for youth care workers, supporting them in drafting treatment plans and guiding young people and families in complex situations. You coach professionals in their daily practice and offer support during individual case moments. Additionally, you work closely with other service providers, such as the Youth Care Bureau (Bureau Jeugdzorg) and municipalities.
You work systemically and are actively involved in complex cases, such as families in complex divorce situations, IAG trajectories, and within foster care trajectories. Within these cases, you work closely with youth care workers, families, and referrers. With your expertise, you contribute to a safe, stable environment in which young people can develop optimally.
Your role, your challenge
Your team, your place
In the Roermond-Venlo region, Pactum offers various forms of youth care, including foster care, ambulant care, and residential care. You will join a warm and close-knit team in which collaboration is central. We complement each other well in experience and background. New colleagues quickly feel welcome: everyone is open, involved, and truly interested in how you are doing. Collegiality is in our genes; we like to help each other and do things together. There is an eye for one another, both at work and in private, and that ensures we not only work well together but also have fun in what we do.
Requirements
Steady, flexible, and enthusiastic: this is how colleagues, young people, and parents describe you. You simply motivate. Your written expression skills are very good and you are accurate in registration. You are stress-resistant, persistent, able to maintain perspective, and focused on assistance with practical results.
You have completed a relevant university (WO) education in orthopedagogy or psychology and are registered in the SKJ register.
You possess a car and a driver's license.
You are aware that performing on-call duties is also part of your tasks.
What we offer
At Pactum, you will work in an interesting work environment with an informal and collegial atmosphere and a team that stands up for the target group. We offer employment conditions in accordance with the CAO Jeugdzorg.
A fixed-term contract for 24 to 32 hours per week;
Scaling according to the CAO Jeugdzorg and based on relevant work experience
Scale 11 minimum €4,119.- to €6,224.- based on 36 hours per week.
Pension provision at Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn;
A wide range of internal training, most of which are SKJ accredited;
For more information about our employment conditions, please click here.
Has your interest been piqued?
For questions about the content of this position, you can contact Linda Kersten - van Zwam (Regional Director Care) via lindakersten@vigogroep.nl
For questions about the procedure, you can contact the Recruitment department via 0493 327 555 or werkenbijpactum@vigogroep.nl. Prefer to send a WhatsApp? You can send one to Alieke Oorbeek via 06 - 27 87 99 78.