Mehiläinen’s subsidiary Healthcare Staffing Solutions ensures the availability of health and social care personnel

Healthcare Staffing Solutions (HSS) recruits and trains international personnel for the needs of the healthcare and social care sector. International recruitment benefits the Finnish healthcare sector in general and helps respond to the challenges related to the availability of workforce. Already 800 care assistants have come from Asia to Finland and other European countries through HSS of which more than 100 have graduated as practical nurses.

- The skilled workforce shortage has been one of the most significant challenges in the industry and will continue to be so in future. Through the high-quality and transparent international training and recruitment process of HSS, we are playing our part in finding solutions for the labour shortage, says Tatu Tulokas, CHRO of Mehiläinen.

The care assistants, primarily of Filipino background, recruited and trained by HSS, usually come to Finland from Singapore and Hongkong. International recruitment requires a different kind of attention to issues such as human rights.

- At HSS we recruit students ourselves and do not use subcontractors in recruitment. This allows us to make sure we know the persons who are recruited, ensure that the recruitment criteria are met and prevent the risk of human trafficking. Our mission is to ensure the best possible employees for world-class companies, continues Jussi Lehmuskallio, Managing Director of HSS.

Care assistants work in Mehiläinen’s own social care services units and in the service of external customers both in private and public sector.

From care assistant to practical nurse through Mehiläinen’s training

HSS has more than 2,000 students. Studies take place in a digital learning and recruitment platform developed by HSS. Once the participants have arrived in Finland, they will complete their training as care assistants through competence demonstrations in cooperation with Finnish educational institutions. HSS has created a training program designed to provide all the necessary knowledge and skills to work in Finland and adapt to Finnish society. In the HSS training model, each care assistant has also the opportunity to study further to qualify as a practical nurse through Mehiläinen’s apprenticeship training programme. Training is free of charge for students.

Healthcare Staffing Solutions (HSS) is Mehiläinen’s subsidiary operating in Asia. The company was established in 2020 and employees more than 200 people. https://hsso.fi/External link