Social Instructor - Helsingin kaupunki - Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki's social, health and rescue services adult social work unit includes adult social work and guidance teams as well as outreach work. Outreach work is seeking a social instructor for a permanent position starting 1.10.2026. Outreach work deploys ten social instructors and one nurse to the streets and food aid. Work takes place in pairs throughout the city area. Workstations are located in Myllypuro, Malmi, Pohjois-Haaga and Kalasatama. Work is also done occasionally in the evenings, nights and weekends. Your tasks include proactively reaching adults who are outside the services or weakly attached to them, e.g. on the streets, in public and semi-public spaces and in food distributions. You offer those encountered guidance and instruction, psychosocial support and referral to services as needed. Encounters focus on working with homeless, mentally symptomatic or substance-using people. Other key tasks are multidisciplinary network work and broad structural social work. We are committed to strengthening customer participation throughout our operations. We offer diverse job tasks, a view of current street phenomena and the support of a multidisciplinary work community with a self-directed and open atmosphere. The work community has regular supervision. In addition to interesting and varied work, we offer you extensive training and development opportunities. As a city employee, you can apply for a rental apartment from Auroranlinna, whose apartments are cheaper than market level and our employees' apartment applications are prioritized. Because life is not just work, we also take care of the balance between work and leisure. You will have access to the Epassi Flex package including sports, culture, commuting and wellbeing benefits. In addition, a lunch benefit is available. You will also have a city bike as a staff benefit and can visit the city employees' own recreation island if you wish. Eligibility requirement: University of Applied Sciences degree suitable for the social field (sosionomi) in accordance with the Act on Social Care Professionals 817/2015 (Section 8). Registration in the central register of professionals of the License and Supervision Authority is required in the position. Language skill requirement is good oral and satisfactory written skill in Finnish. Vaccination protection in accordance with Section 48 of the Communicable Diseases Act and a tuberculosis certificate in accordance with Section 55 are required in the position. In addition, we require: - Ability to actively contact people in need of support in street conditions and act in a customer-oriented and security-enhancing manner also in unpredictable situations - Independent and active approach to work as well as good interaction, cooperation and networking skills - IT remote work skills and strong work management skills - Class B driver's license and driving experience (ability to drive a manual transmission car) We consider as an advantage: - Experience of outreach work, working with working-age people and homeless people - Enthusiasm and skill in utilizing social media as part of structural work - Knowledge of Helsinki's customer information system Apotti.