Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work dedicatedly together to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trusting workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
Gävle Municipality has a central childcare assistant pool with childcare assistants employed by the Staffing and Recruitment Unit. The unit meets the need for staffing during short-term absences within the municipality's preschool operations. We are now recruiting 5 childcare assistants for the childcare assistant pool. These positions consist of 4 permanent positions and 1 temporary position between 2026-09-10 and 2027-02-27.
5 position(s).
WORK DUTIES
As an employee in the childcare assistant pool, you will work with general tasks within preschool, and during a week your work can be performed at several different preschools. Working in the childcare assistant pool is a varied and stimulating job where you meet many different groups of children, staff, and work teams. You contribute to creating a positive and developing environment for all children at the municipality's preschools.
Your work duties include:
• Support the child group in daily work and contribute to a safe and positive environment.
• Help children with meals, rest, toilet visits, and getting dressed.
• Support children in conflict management and social interaction.
• Participate in and sometimes lead play, activities, and educational moments.
• Take responsibility for supervision and safety both indoors and outdoors.
Working as a childcare assistant in the pool means you meet the preschools' need for short-term temporary staff. The work requires great flexibility as you often receive your exact working hours and workplace on the same day you are to work. You need to be prepared to travel to preschools throughout Gävle Municipality.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who has:
• Completed upper secondary education from the Child and Leisure Program with a focus on childcare assistant, or alternatively other upper secondary education combined with a vocational package focused on childcare assistant 1400 points, for example via komvux.
• Knowledge of the preschool curriculum and other governing documents used in preschool operations.
• Knowledge of, and experience with, working with digital tools.
• Knowledge and experience of low-arousal interaction.
It is also an advantage if you have knowledge in TAKK/AKK as we work with sign language as support for early communicative behavior, as well as experience working with children with various functional variations. A driver's license is also an advantage for the position.
To succeed in the role, you have:
• Strong collaboration skills and an unpretentious working style that promotes a well-functioning team in the preschool's educational activities.
• The ability to build trust and confidence. You have the ability to spread calm and stability.
• Very good ability to express yourself in Swedish in speech and writing, which contributes to safe communication with children, guardians, and colleagues.
• You are solution-oriented and have the ability to find solutions to problems that arise.
• You are flexible and adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach. You see opportunities in changes.
As a final candidate in the recruitment process, it is a requirement that you provide an extract from the criminal record for work in school or preschool.
Employment form: Permanent employment.
Duration: Start date: 2026-08-24.
We offer you
You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have
• generous vacation conditions and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation during your first year of employment
• compensation for fitness and exercise benefits when you are employed for more than three months
• several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner
Our core values
Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly expressed values.
Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work in Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs
Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/organisation
Gävle Municipality is part of the Swedish-speaking administrative area. If you therefore, in addition to our other competency requirements, also speak Finnish, it can be an advantage.
Information to recruitment consultants and advertising vendors: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work dedicatedly together to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trusting workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
Gävle Municipality has a central childcare assistant pool with childcare assistants employed by the Staffing and Recruitment Unit. The unit meets the need for staffing during short-term absences within the municipality's preschool operations. We are now recruiting 5 childcare assistants for the childcare…