Early childhood education practical nurse, Pilke Playschool Mäntyviita
Posted: 3 days ago
Job Description
At the heart of Pilke’s early childhood education, childcare and after-school activities are the company’s good day makers – more than 2,000 ECEC and childcare professionals. Their goal is to ensure that children have a good day, every day.We value our competent early childhood educators and strive for being an excellent employer. In addition to our values, the activities of our work community are driven by a strong sense of quality, togetherness and encouragement.We are looking for an early childhood education practical nurse to the Pilke Playschool Mäntyviita. You will be working with the 0-3-year-old toddlers. The position starts in Januray 2026. The daycare centre has places for 42 children. The position requires a willingness to utilise your competence, to develop and innovate new ideas and to provide the children and colleagues with a good day through personal engagement. You will mainly work with the 0-3-year-olds group, however, your will also educate older children of the daycare. The Pilke Playschool Mäntyviita is an English daycare unit, but we also value the skills of other languages such as Finnish as Finnish is used as the enrichment language with the older children of the unit. The Pilke Playschool Mäntyviita offers warm-spirited and high-quality early childhood education to children aged 0-5 years in the Espoo district of Tapiola. Our curriculum follows the National Core for Early Childhood Education and Care from Finland. We make sure that your child can express their creativity and be an active participant in their learning journey with us.We expect you to apply working methods based firmly on pedagogic principles, to have a positive and active attitude, good interaction skills and the ability to encounter children genuinely. We apply solution-based working practices and encourage our employees to try new things. At Pilke, the daycare centre tasks are assigned among childcare professionals so that everyone has time to focus on their duties to the best of their abilities. We offer our employees appealing and safe work, a positive working atmosphere and support in their duties. As a Pilke employee, you have the opportunity to develop your work, educate yourself further and build a career path based on your interests. This page provides further information about working at Pilke daycare centres.To be qualified for the position, you must have completed an applicable basic education degree in social services and health care (a children’s instructor or practical nurse degree including a programme in children’s and youth education and care) or another corresponding degree, such as a childcarer or childminder degree. The selected candidate shall present to the employer a criminal records extract within the meaning of Section 6 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Records Act (770/1993).If this description sounds like you, don’t hesitate to submit an application. We would be glad to welcome you among our good day makers!
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