Speech Therapist as a Self-Employed Practitioner

We Mehiläinen people have a life to fulfil. If you feel the same, come and work with us. We are looking for a speech therapist to work as a self-employed practitioner at the Mehiläinen Tampere Lahdesjärvi location. Are you a speech therapy professional who would like to join a workplace with a warm atmosphere and a culture of pulling together? Would you like the freedom to shape your working week and make the role your own while developing professionally? If so, you may be the speech therapist we are looking for. Mehiläinen Tampere Lahdesjärvi is located in Tampereen Portti in Lahdesjärvi and is easy to reach by public transport or car. There is ample parking, and the premises are new and modern. In-house material production and a comprehensive administrative support team ensure that you can focus fully on speech therapy. The location has a warm atmosphere and strong team spirit, and we invest in community. Speech therapy professionals at different career stages work here, and we value learning new methods from each other and developing our expertise. We are an official Kela service provider in the Tampere area, and we also make visits under municipal TAYS payment commitments and belong to the regional service voucher system. Our speech therapists in Tampere are skilled in rehabilitating language skills, speech production and interaction. As a speech therapist at Mehiläinen, you work independently and responsibly, while receiving support from local and national therapy teams. A broad and close-knit community of therapists and administrative experts supports you, so you can focus on meeting clients and doing important therapy work. You can work flexibly with a client group that interests you, either in clients’ everyday environments or at our comfortable clinic in Tampere. You can also work remotely or provide flexible hybrid rehabilitation combining in-person and remote rehabilitation. Employee well-being matters to us, and we invest in making work enjoyable. You can develop your expertise through training that interests you; the training is planned and delivered based on therapists’ requests. We invest in the continued development of speech therapists’ expertise. In our employees’ words: “My work means a lot to me. I can develop myself through it, and Mehiläinen also makes that possible by encouraging, for example, further training. I feel that speech therapy is my calling, and I want to focus on the practical work itself and meeting clients, which is easy to do at Mehiläinen.” Our speech therapists are satisfied with their work. According to our 2025 employee survey, the greatest sources of satisfaction were teamwork and team spirit, the content and meaningfulness of the work, leadership and well-being at work. We offer you: - Flexible working hours based on your preferences and the opportunity to focus on your core work with clients. - Opportunities for continuous training through our internal training system and access to the latest research. - Comfortable premises and modern equipment, rehabilitation materials and tests needed for the work. - The opportunity to build a varied role thanks to our broad client base and range of agreements, in addition to Kela and wellbeing services counties. - Competitive percentage-based compensation, a billing service and personal support for self-employment, as well as a comprehensive selection of changing discounts from our partners. - A local and national multidisciplinary colleague network. - Local and national community events, such as team days, social evenings and celebrations. We hope you have: - The qualifications of a licensed speech therapist. - A positive team spirit, a desire to develop professionally and readiness to work independently. Previous experience as a speech therapist is not essential, as we provide plenty of support and training for people at the beginning of their careers. - A willingness to share our values, in which a close-knit workplace and community are an important part of everyday work. - Passion for speech therapy and developing professionally. - Readiness for mobile work. The role requires the vaccination protection specified in Section 48 of the Communicable Diseases Act. Before accepting the position, the selected candidate must present the criminal record extract required under the Act on Checking the Criminal Background of Persons Working with Children (504/2010, Section 3). Under the Act on the Supervision of Social Welfare and Health Care, candidates selected to work with older people or people with disabilities must also present the criminal record extract referred to in Section 6(2) of the Criminal Records Act. Please submit your application and CV through our recruitment system by 31 October 2026. The work begins by agreement; a start toward the end of 2026 or at the beginning of 2027 may be agreed. We review applications during the application period and may fill the position once we find a suitable person. For more information, contact Service Manager Maiju Meriläinen at maiju.merilainen@mehilainen.fi or by phone at 050 327 8710. Requests for a call can be sent by text message. Mehiläinen’s therapy businesses have merged into Mehiläinen Therapy and Rehabilitation Services. The Mehiläinen therapy services speech therapy community includes around 200 top professionals across Finland. Our shared passion is to advance speech therapy and be a trailblazer in the field—we have the best opportunities to do so together. We Mehiläinen people work together to build the best place for professionals. We do this by leading fairly and approaching quality uncompromisingly. We get things done in a functional work environment, supported by skilled and caring colleagues. We grow and develop together. We are the best place for professionals who have a life to fulfil.