1. International recruitment to the health care sector as part of the HYVÄ programme – state of play
Tiina Oinonen
Helsinki

2. Background
HYVÄ aims to develop labour and industrial policies in social and health care services, one focus area is to ensure the availability of skilled labour force
According to MEE’s surveys, the accumulated gap in the labour force of the heath care sector in year 2025 will be at least persons
HYVÄ has launched a mapping of development needs of international recruitment regarding nurses and created an ethically sustanable business model for recruitment

3. Start of the project in spring 2012
Proposals for the responsible actors re. cooperation, division of work, common rules of procedure and action
Coordinated, functioning, flexible and ethically sustanaibale process of recruiting nurses from outside the EU/EEA area
Modelling the process
If needed, proposals re. reform of the legislation to the responsible actors
Development of solutions to the identified problems
Identification of the different phases of the project and their problems, the roles and resposabilities of the actors
Practical recruitment projects to be identified with the employers
2012
2013
2015

4. State of play Information, awareness Validation, language skills
Analysis of the labour force needs in the helath care sector 10/2012
Information, awareness
Joint preparation of proposals with different administrative brances for short term & long term
Validation, language skills
Language skills group, Ministry of Education and Culture
Measures to launch/emphasize during the current government period
Working life
- Training & integration
Information: workinfinland.fi
Experiences of the ESF projects
Care assistant training for the immigrants
Work community training
Quality of working life; Working Life 2020
State of play
Assessment of the ancipation
Cooperation & coordination

5. Preparations of long term proposals
Coming government period
Future reviews
Hearing of the labour market organisations and the different actors re. International recruitment
Preliminary proposals ready by October 2014
Final proposals by the end of 2014

6. Challenges re. international recruitment
How to promote (in a controlled and coordinated way) international recruitment; how to make sure that the professional skills, the language required and the integration to the Finnish work places and society will be secured
International recruitment is not the only option, but necessary
International recruitment is a significant socio-political issue and it requires long term definitions of policy
Also – how to improve the systematic anticipation of the labour market needs and its assessment

7. More information: www.tem.fi/hyva