Social care professionals

We at VAKE offer various career opportunities in the social sector.

You can work with children, adolescents, families, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Our social work services employ social workers, social instructors and special social instructors, among others.

VAKEn sosiaalityöntekijä Anniina poseeraan värikkäässä mekossa sinistä taustaa vasten.

Effective and meaningful work

In services for children, young people and families, you get to work in preventive family services, family support services or special family services.

In adult social work, you get to work in social work, employment and inclusion services or housing services. You may also work in disability services, which are divided into three areas: counselling, organisation and procurement of services and housing services.

Senior services are in turn divided into living-at-home services and nursing home services. These services areas offer many different career opportunities.

We develop social work while keeping our employees in mind, read more >

Why should you work with us?

  • We have a great working community, and we care for our employees. We invest in your wellbeing and support you at work.
  • We have an effective orientation and mentoring system for new employees to ensure that they integrate quickly.
  • It is important for us that our employees are involved in development work, and we want you to be able to utilise your special skills in your role.
  • We have professionals from different fields working closely together. This includes legal services and a team of experts at your disposal.
  • We have a comprehensive range of training opportunities to make your further education dreams come true.
  • We offer you an annual ePassi benefit of €300, which you can use for commuting, sport, culture and wellbeing opportunities.
  • We improve the attraction and retention capability of social work by paying a recruitment and retention incentive to child welfare social workers in open care and substitute care. As a rule, the compensation is 1,000 euros retroactively from a period of three months from 1.2.2024 until the end of January 2025. Read more >

Why be a social worker with us?

In the video, our professionals Anniina, Meeri and Mia tell you about their work and why you should come work with us.

You can also get to know your future colleagues with the Working at VAKE employee stories! Our social work professionals Anniina, Iida, Reija, Anu, and Anne tell us about their workday in the blogs.

Being a social worker at VAKE | Anniina
Being a social instructor at VAKE | Iida
Being a senior instructor at VAKE | Reija
Being a workshop instructor at VAKE | Anu
Being a workshop instructor at VAKE | Anne
Hyvantekijät playlist | Youtube

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