Work Ability Specialist

TE services became municipal services on 1 January 2025. Rovaniemi and Ranua jointly form the Rovaseutu employment area, which organises employment services for jobseekers and employers in the region. Would you like to help build solutions for situations where challenges with work ability affect employment? We are looking for a Work Ability Specialist who can identify clients’ possibilities, bring together the right services and move processes forward with determination. As a Work Ability Specialist, you will be responsible for progressing the client process for clients assigned to you by assessing and clarifying their overall situation. You will identify reduced work ability or partial work ability and know how to determine the need for rehabilitation. You will actively and purposefully seek solutions that match clients’ work and functional ability and help them move towards employment, rehabilitation or a suitable service. When necessary, you will also guide jobseeking clients whose health does not allow them to seek work or take paid employment towards the appropriate benefit. In your daily work, you will meet clients face to face. Job description and areas of responsibility: The core of your work is to identify opportunities for employment despite clients’ work-ability limitations and to assess their work ability in relation to labour-market requirements. Your task is to find solutions leading to work, rehabilitation, a suitable service or a benefit. You will work closely with the party that made a decision concerning the client, supporting them also when their application for rehabilitation or a pension has been declined. You will plan, launch and monitor service packages and rehabilitation pathways that support clients’ employment and work and functional ability. As a Work Ability Specialist, you will handle statutory public-authority duties that are part of the client service model, such as referring clients to services, preparing employment plans together with clients and handling matters related to unemployment security. Together with other stakeholders, you will plan and carry out the development of work-ability support models, service processes and client work. You will act as a specialist in work-ability support and rehabilitation and advise other specialists in situations where a client’s employment involves questions concerning work ability, health or rehabilitation. Your key tasks include: - assessing clients’ work and functional ability together with them - identifying strengths and limitations related to work ability - assessing the need for work-ability support and finding solutions - guiding clients to necessary services, such as health examinations, investigations and rehabilitation options - close cooperation with partners and networks, including healthcare, social services and Kela - coordinating the client’s service pathway and cooperating with employers - internal development tasks and consultation - coordinating workplace adjustment support - public-authority duties The eligibility requirement is a suitable higher-education degree. In addition, we expect you to have: - experience working with work and functional ability support, rehabilitation or similar services - good collaboration and networking skills - an initiative-taking, goal-oriented and solution-focused approach - fluent Finnish and good digital capabilities The following are considered an advantage: - experience assessing work and functional ability, work-ability support processes and pension investigations - good knowledge of the work-ability support and rehabilitation service system - experience in networking and goal-oriented client guidance - knowledge of the operating environment of employment services and the labour market - a development-oriented, independent and solution-focused approach The position requires working on site for approximately 60–80% of working time. Before accepting the public-service post, the selected candidate must provide an acceptable medical certificate of their health. The position has a six-month probationary period. Apply for the position by submitting an application through the City of Rovaniemi’s electronic recruitment service via Kuntarekry. If you cannot submit an electronic application, you may send your application to: City of Rovaniemi, Registry Office, PO Box 8216, 96101 Rovaniemi. The position title must be marked on the envelope and the application. The recruitment process is anonymous. In practice, during the first stage of the recruitment process, do not include information such as age, mother tongue or gender in your answers to the open application questions. Information requested in the background details will not be visible to the recruiting manager. Our aim with anonymous recruitment is to focus attention on applicants’ professional skills and work experience.