Lead Instructor

Kotico Oy; Espoo; On-site; EUR 37,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Epassi Flex benefit €400/year

Development and recreation days

Job summary

Kotico Oy is seeking a lead instructor for the Kompassipuisto Child Welfare Unit in Espoo. The role focuses on promoting rehabilitation for severely symptomatic clients within a multidisciplinary team, with duties spanning daily life management, educational guidance, and service quality oversight.

The position is permanent, with weekday/morning shifts and potential for other shifts. Requirement includes a relevant university of applied sciences degree, 3+ years in foster care, and strong team

Qualifications

• Suitable university of applied sciences education (e.g. social worker, nurse, occupational therapist).
• At least three years of experience in foster care.
• Experience in leading, motivating and coordinating the daily work of a team.
• Good interaction skills, creativity, planning skills and the ability to work in a team.
• Expertise in working with children with psychological, neuropsychiatric and behavioral disorders is valued.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the unit's daily life and guidance of staff, including shift coordination.
• Responsibility for guidance and educational work.
• Contributing to the planning of operations and ensuring service quality with the unit manager.
• Handling substitute procurement and other resourcing with the unit manager.

Skills

Team leadership

Foster care experience

Educational guidance

Curriculum development

Interpersonal skills

Education

University of applied sciences degree in social work, nursing or occupational therapy

Job description

We are looking for a lead instructor with strong expertise in promoting the rehabilitation of severely symptomatic clients and a desire to bring their expertise to the multidisciplinary team of the Hohka ward. The employment is permanent and work begins as agreed.

Child Welfare Unit Kompassipuisto consists of the Kajo and Hohka wards. Hohka is a 6-place ward providing special-level institutional care for 11–17-year-olds, mainly long-term placed children. We are oriented towards the care and education of children with psychological, neuropsychiatric and behavioral disorders with a solution-focused approach. The work is undoubtedly meaningful and versatile, but also challenging and rewarding. Work is focused on weekdays and morning shifts. However, the employee must be prepared to work in other shifts as needed.

Responsibilities of the lead instructor include:

• Responsibility for the unit's daily life (responsibility for the smoothness of shifts and the guidance/orientation of staff as well as the coordination of work tasks)
• Responsibility for guidance and educational work
• Contributing to the planning of operations and responsibility for the quality of the service together with the unit manager
• Taking care of substitute procurement and other resourcing together with the unit manager

We hope for:

• Suitable university of applied sciences education (e.g. social worker, nurse, occupational therapist)
• At least three years of experience in foster care
• Experience in leading, motivating and coordinating the daily work of a team
• Good interaction skills, creativity, planning skills and the ability to work in a team
• We especially value expertise in working with those symptomatic of psychological, neuropsychiatric and behavioral disorders.

In return for sharing your professional skills, you get:

• A work community where we support your strengths and interests. We have mutual trust and an experimental work culture.
• A supervisor who is genuinely present and supportive in everyday life.
• A job description where you can genuinely utilize your special expertise.
• Epassi Flex benefit of €400/year (incl. sports and culture benefit, massage, health, dental care, commuter benefit).
• Regular group supervision and team days, as well as development and recreation days that support community and well-being at work.
• Your basic salary is €3,300/month, in addition to which we pay an availability supplement of €310/month. In addition, you have the possibility of personal and task-specific salary supplements, for example, for utilizing your supplementary training and areas of responsibility in terms of your own special expertise.

Application deadline: August 16th.

Further information about the position is provided by Regional Director Heli Niemi, tel. [phone] on weekdays 8:00-16:00.

The selected candidate must present an acceptable criminal record extract in accordance with the Act on the Checking of the Criminal Background of Persons Working with Children (2002/504) before accepting the position. In addition, a drug test is performed for all our new employees, typically in connection with the initial/entry medical examination.

We have been awarded the Future Workplaces certificate, which is granted to organizations where corporate culture is developed by listening to staff, with genuine employee understanding. Relevant university of applied sciences degree (e.g., social worker, nurse, occupational therapist), At least three years of experience in foster care, Experience in leading, motivating and coordinating a team, Good interaction skills, creativity, and planning skills, Ability to work in a team, Expertise in working with children with psychological, neuropsychiatric and behavioral disorders (valued)