Clerical Assistant | C&K Blackwater Community Childcare Centre

Clerical Assistant– C&K Blackwater Community Childcare Centre

• Administration Clerical  
• Immediate start for the right candidate
• Permanent Part Time – 12 hours a week
• Work within school hours

About the role:
C&K Blackwater Community Childcare Centre has a position for an experienced Clerical/Administration Assistant to join the Childcare Centre on a Part time basis. Within this role we are also looking for someone with an interest in either starting or continuing their career in Early Childhood Education and Care as an Educator.

If you are interested in gaining further experience working with children, being part of a collaborative team within the local community and have a background with administration, this could be the role for you.

This is a varied role with 2 days clerical/administration to support the centre and Director, and extra hours and days available to work as a casual relief Educator at the Centre if you desire. Be a part of a team and build your experience in Early Childhood.

You will learn and be supported in your new role, with experienced educators, dedicated long term Director, and be a face of the centre to support families and children in your community.

This position:

The Administration Clerical Assistant is responsible for assisting the Childcare with matters of an administrative and financial nature such as creating and maintaining child enrolment records and waitlist information, collecting data for QLD Kindergarten Funding Scheme (QKFS) validation and application of Health Care Card subsidies, retaining accurate attendance records for children and generate child data reports, file maintenance and archiving as well as other administrative duties as needed.

Ideally you will be flexible and have great organizational and time management skills, flexible and willing to support the Centre with open day events, community events and other administrative duties for the educators and service when required.

The Clerical position will be Permanent part time, working 12 hours each week, 6 hours each Wednesday and Friday.

Ideal applicants will have:

• Qualification in business administration or related course is preferred but not essential
• Hold Certificate 3 in Early Childhood Education and Care or currently enrolled, desirable
• Previous experience in a similar role as a clerical or Educator
• Proven well developed written, verbal, interpersonal communication and presentation skills coupled with a strong customer service focus
• Demonstrated high level of organisational and time management skills
• Ability to maintain a very high level of confidentiality and integrity
• Be approachable amongst the community of families, children and employees

The benefits:

As an administration clerical at the centre, you will be given training and support to assist you with your onboarding.

As an educator you will have access to C&K’s new revised curriculum “Listening & Learning Together” as well as our Birth to Three approach. C&K offers an online learning education hub and has a dedicated Learning and Development department which provides you access to online training and courses for our employees.

As well as;

• Beautiful natural working and learning environments
• Extra hours as an educator if you are qualified or studying towards ECEC
• Work for one of Queensland’s leading early education not-for-profit providers
• Career progression opportunities
• Paid Blue card and First Aid renewals
• Build your networks through C&K in the Early Childhood sector
• Gain experience with all age groups through Long day care
• Feel connected through regular C&K updates, use of online systems, access to policies and procedures and online learning
• Feeling connected through your community
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Access to study through our C&K College
• Salary packaging options & above award wage
• Priority access for your children’s care to C&K childcare and Kindergarten services

About C&K:

C&K is proud to be the largest and longest established provider of community-based early childhood education and care services in Queensland.  Working at C&K you will have access to many benefits including, but not limited to, above-award wages, salary packaging options, priority access to C&K childcare and kindergarten centres and access to study through our C&K College.  

C&K is committed to an inclusive workforce and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from culturally-diverse backgrounds.  

Please be aware that the Queensland Government’s COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Workers in a high-risk setting Direction requires all workers who enter, work in, or provide services in an early childhood education and care setting to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.  This Direction applies to C&K. 

All C&K employees are required to undergo background checks which includes police checks.

Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only. C&K reserve the right to close the advertisement before this date is reached. Therefore, it is encouraged that you submit your application as soon as possible.