Substitute Youth Care Instructor

We are now seeking substitute instructors with a university of applied sciences degree for the Kankaantaka service. Sospro’s Kankaantaka is a specialised child welfare residential care operation comprising four residential units. Read more about Kankaantaka: https://sospro.fi/toimipisteet/kankaantaka/ The instructor’s role in brief Your duties as an instructor in child welfare residential care are: - Act as a trusted key worker and an adult responsible for the young person’s upbringing. - Contribute your expertise to the whole work team from the perspective of your educational background. To support your work, professional development and wellbeing, we offer: - A work community where individual acceptance and mutual trust form the foundation of our work. - Support from a respectful and enabling supervisor, reflected, for example, in shift planning that takes your preferences into account. - Comprehensive occupational healthcare and leisure-time accident insurance. - Pay corresponding to level G24D under the private social services collective agreement (€2,811.09–€3,071.09). Shift-related supplements are also paid according to the shifts worked. The work begins by agreement and continues until 31 August 2027. The selected instructor must have a higher education degree in social and health care or education (for example, a Bachelor of Social Services, physiotherapist, occupational therapist or registered nurse qualification). Applicants must also have work or placement experience in residential child welfare care. The selected candidate must provide the criminal record extract required by the Act on checking the criminal background of people working with children (505/2002). The selected candidate must hold a driving licence. A hygiene passport and a social and healthcare professional card are required for the role. Interested? Send your application by Sunday 25 October 2026. For further information about the role, contact Director of Operations Ismo Pokela as needed (tel. 040 840 3206). Sospro is a Finnish child welfare company that provides high-quality residential and open-care services to wellbeing services counties in South Ostrobothnia, Kanta-Häme, Pirkanmaa, Satakunta and Southwest Finland. Our work is founded on our belief in the good in every person. Our values are courage, individuality, participation and trust. Sospro grew from entrepreneurs’ dream of creating a setting for services where the child and family are at the centre, and professionals in the field have the best tools and opportunities to do their important work. We promote and maintain the wellbeing of children receiving residential care and respond to their needs through innovative, rehabilitative, feedback-informed and strengths-based work. All our activities are based on research and feedback from our work, and we continuously develop our practices. Our services make a difference when clients feel heard, seen and valued. Sospro – We believe in the good in every person. Sospro.fi | LinkedIn | Instagram