Early Childhood Education Assistant

A daycare assistant acts as a group or personal assistant in a daycare group with children in need of enhanced or special support. The assistant familiarizes themselves with the children's support needs, methods, and care procedures, and plans, implements, and evaluates activities together with the early childhood education teacher and the special education teacher. They work with the children in the group according to an agreed plan and enable the rest of the team to function with children requiring support. As a team member, they participate in cooperation with parents, special education teachers, and other expert bodies. We expect from you an understanding of diversity, an inclusive value base, a solution-oriented approach to work, and the ability to create a positive and encouraging learning environment for children in cooperation with the rest of the team. Knowledge of the basics of visual communication and play support methods is an advantage. You are warmly welcome to our cheerful and professional work community! Eligibility requirement: a suitable vocational qualification, a suitable professional or specialist vocational qualification, or other suitable education. The person selected for the position must provide the employer with a criminal record extract as referred to in Section 6, subsection 2 of the Criminal Records Act (Act on the Checking of the Criminal Background of Persons Working with Children 504/2002). Employment benefits offered by the City of Turku include: - diverse training opportunities - a Föli commuter card for discounted bus travel - a Tyky wristband for the City of Turku's sports and cultural services To promote equality and impartiality, the City of Turku prefers anonymous recruitment. In practice, this means that in the first stage of the recruitment process, open questions in the job application should not include information such as age, native language, or gender. Although some of this information is asked for in the background data, this information is not visible to the recruiting manager in the anonymous applicant report. The goal of anonymous recruitment is to focus attention on the applicant's professional competence and work experience. Workplace address: Tuomaansilta Daycare / Rehtorinpellonkatu Daycare Rehtorinpellonkatu 4-6, 20500 Turku