Early Childhood Education Assistant

Suikkila Day Care Centre has a fixed-term group assistant position open for a pre-primary education group for the period 17.8.2026-31.5.2027. The day care centre, completed in 2024, offers healthy and safe facilities for children's participation and active operation. Its excellent location allows nature to be a natural part of education and learning. At Suikkila Day Care Centre, we want to maintain an operational culture based on the best interests of the child. The multidisciplinary work community requires your participation and commitment to pedagogical activities as part of a team. You will receive support for this role from your own team and other members of the multidisciplinary community. Diverse meeting practices enable participation and, consequently, professional development. We hope for a professional approach, good interaction skills, teamwork ability, and good community skills. Additionally, we value genuine presence and the ability to immerse oneself in the child's world. Welcome to Suikkila! Interviews will be conducted while the application process is still ongoing. Eligibility requirement: a vocational qualification suitable for the position or other suitable education. The selected candidate must provide 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). Employment benefits offered by the City of Turku include: - diverse training opportunities - Föli commuter card for discounted bus travel - Tyky-bracelet 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 requested in the background data, it 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: Suikkilan päiväkoti, Talinkorventie 16, 20320 TURKU