Clerical Assistant | C&K Herston Road Community Long Day Care

Clerical Assistant -C&K Herston Road Community Long Day Care

• Permanent part time, 10 hours per week
• Work during school hours
• Work with a friendly and supportive team

About the role:

C&K Herston Road Childcare Centre which is situated in inner Northern region of Brisbane, are currently looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Clerical Assistant who is confident, can maintain confidentiality, and is open to learning new skills while engaging within a team and community focused environment.

As the Clerical Assistant, you will be responsible for assisting the Centre Director with the administrative and financial functions of the centre which includes maintaining the centre’s record, accurately recording the attendances of children and staff, booking in families for centre tours and other ad hoc administrative duties. Such as creating and maintaining child enrolment records and waitlist information, collecting data for 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 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 centre when required.

• Immediate start for the right candidate
• Visit our centre at C&K Herston Road Community Long Day Care         

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
• 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
• Previous experience in a childcare environment is desirable

What can we offer our employees?

• Above award salaries
• Priority access to childcare
• Beautiful natural learning environments for children and educators to learn and discover together
• Work for one of Queensland's leading early education not-for-profit providers
• Career progression opportunities
• C&K pays for our permanent staff to have a paid blue card and renewals
• Build your networks through C&K in the Early Childhood sector
• 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
• Salary packaging options & above award wage
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Corporate Health Insurance Program

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.