Daycare Assistant

Duration of work: 3.8.2026-31.7.2027 Group: In this role, you will work with children aged 5-7 Location: Hintsankuja Daycare, Pelttarinkatu unit We are looking for an early childhood education assistant to join a work community that values expertise, cooperation, and open interaction. Everyone has the opportunity to shine using their own strengths. This job is for you if - your interaction with children can be described as encouraging, caring, and gentle - even in challenging situations, you see the child's needs behind the behavior and find positive, supportive ways to support the child in everyday life - you want to learn and discover together - you value teamwork and your thinking is solution-oriented In the City of Turku's daycares, we want to provide children with a safe and warm learning environment where they can grow and develop through play, movement, exploration, art, and other diverse activities. Meeting and respecting the child as a unique human being is important to us. Eligibility requirement is a suitable vocational qualification, a suitable professional or specialist vocational qualification, or other suitable education. The selected person 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 Verification of the Criminal Background of Persons Working with Children 504/2002). A probationary period applies to the employment relationship. 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 asked in the background details, 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: Pelttarinkatu 6, 20610 Turku