Family Care Family Counselor - Pelastakaa Lapset - Turku, Finland

Save the Children is the world's leading independent children's organization and a pioneer in child protection. We build a better future for children together with children, volunteers, and partners. We promise you a workplace where we do impactful work, work with strong professionalism, and value a humane work culture. As a private provider of social services, we implement commissioned family care, adoption counseling, foster family activities, and expert services in our regional services. We are now looking for a family counselor for the Turku office of the South Finland regional services. The primary task of the family care family counselor is to guide and support family caregivers through support visits and other communication. The family counselor cooperates with the parents and relatives of placed children and supports the cooperation relationship between parents and foster parents. The family counselor's task is to act as an active team member and cooperate with social workers and family counselors in various tasks and networks. The tasks include up-to-date recording and reporting. We offer you an interesting and versatile task in a respected organization. We boldly develop new ways of operating, set ambitious goals, and work relentlessly to achieve them. We want to build a diverse work community and atmosphere together, where everyone can be themselves. Around you, you will find pleasant and professional colleagues. Heart in the right place – that unites us all. We provide good tools for work, flexible office hours, and the possibility of remote work. We offer staff benefits including ePass wellbeing benefit, lunch benefit as a fringe benefit, comprehensive occupational health care, and remote work insurance. Good community spirit is important to us, and we gather regularly for recreation and staff days. Our office is located in the center of Turku with good transport links. Requirements: - Qualification as a Social Worker (Sosionomi) according to the Act on Social Care Professionals 817/2015. - Previous experience in child protection; experience in family care tasks as well as PRIDE and family-specific coaching is considered an advantage. - Team spirit. - Previous experience working in an organization is also valued. The employment is permanent and full-time. Start date is 1.9.26 or earlier by agreement. We follow the collective agreement for the private social services sector. Salary is determined by experience and skills, TES salary class G26 (2952.96 € – 3331.25 €). The position involves travel (driver's license is essential) and occasionally evening and weekend work. Apply by 9.8.2026. Interviews are tentatively scheduled for 17.8.26 and 18.8.26. Further information until 31.7.26: Service Director Martina Mäkinen, tel. 050 4316824. Child safety is important in all our activities. Commitment to protecting children from violence is an absolute requirement, so we check criminal records before signing the employment contract. Additionally, signing the Save the Children ry commitment to protect children is required.