Generally, students at a university enter a three-month trainee period, and students at universities of applied sciences enter five-month trainee periods. 

Traineeships

You can find our traineeships at Valtiolle.fi and on this page.

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State employment:

The Ministry as a workplace

Your work at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is important to society and will impact the daily lives of everyone who lives in Finland. You will work with us to build a socially sustainable Finland, where well-being is accessible to everyone. We will encourage you to improve your know-how and support you in finding a good work-life balance.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is a part of the Government. Our core tasks include legislative preparation, development of the sector, and implementation of the Government Programme. The objective of our activities is to provide everyone with equal opportunity for a safe and healthy life.

The Ministry is a workplace for highly skilled, professional and motivated personnel. As an organisation, we are proactive, well-managed, and focused on our core tasks. Our operation is based on transparency and cooperation.

The Ministry’s main office is in Helsinki. The Tampere office focuses on occupational safety.

What kinds of positions are there at the Ministry?

The Ministry features a variety of expert and assistive positions. Many of the positions include legislative preparation.

These positions require knowledge in social and health policy, social and private insurance, occupational safety and equality, among other things, and many of them also require legal expertise.

The Ministry also employs secretarial and administration experts. Work here requires good interaction skills and a proactive approach to work. To support your work, we have an excellent work community which, according to personnel feedback, is fair and encouraging.

How does the Ministry support the development of its personnel?

Every new employee receives an onboarding plan, and the Ministry also holds its own orientation course.

We support the development and training of our personnel to meet the demands of their tasks.  Based on surveys, our personnel value the good opportunities to develop their competence.

I get to have a say and see the workings of the Ministry from within. I feel like this is ‘where things happen.’

Personnel feedback

Service relationship, working hours, pay, and general collective agreements

Service relationship at the Ministry

At the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, everyone works in a civil servant relationship. These positions follow the state’s legislation on civil service and the general collective agreements for government.

Over 70 per cent of Ministry personnel work here on a permanent basis. Many of them build long careers here.

Working hours, flexi-time and pay

At the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, regular working hours are 7 hours and 15 minutes per day. We also use the Ministries’ shared flexi-time system (weekly working hours are 36 hours and 15 minutes).