Childcare Worker

Haarla Daycare is seeking an early childhood education childcare worker for a group of children under three for the period 2 November 2026–2 April 2027. The childcare worker’s main task is to provide care, education and guidance to the children in the group according to the division of work agreed within the team. The childcare worker also participates in planning, developing and evaluating early childhood education for the group. We value an enthusiastic, flexible early childhood education professional with good interaction skills, for whom the desire to act in the child’s best interests is paramount. We offer you a motivated team that treats children as individuals and a work community where we support and value one another. In your work, you will be supported by the daycare director, deputy director and the daycare’s own special education teacher in early childhood education. Haarla Daycare is located on the scenic island of Hirvensalo, with good transport connections. You can get here easily by bus, bicycle or your own car. We will begin interviews during the application period. The eligibility requirement is determined by section 28 of the Early Childhood Education Act (540/2018). The required qualification for an early childhood education childcare worker is a vocational qualification in education and guidance, a vocational qualification in social and health care, or another suitable equivalent qualification that includes or has been supplemented with sufficiently extensive qualification units in childcare, education and teaching. The selected candidate must provide the employer with a criminal record extract referred to in section 6(2) of the Criminal Records Act (Act on Checking the Criminal Background of Persons Working with Children 504/2002). As employment benefits, the City of Turku offers, among other things: - A wide range of training - 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 non-discrimination, the City of Turku uses anonymous recruitment. In practice, this means that during the first stage of recruitment, applicants should not include information such as age, native language or gender in the open-ended questions of the job application. Although some information is requested in the background details, it is not visible to the recruiting supervisor in the anonymous applicant report. The aim of anonymous recruitment is to focus attention on the applicant’s professional skills and work experience. Workplace address: Meteorikatu 1, 20900 Turku.