At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Help Shape Futures at C&K Oonoonba

Join C&K Oonoonba Community Kindergarten as our dedicated Director-Teacher, leading a warm, inclusive, and play-based learning environment where every child feels safe, makes friends, and belongs.

Located on Lakeland Boulevard in Idalia, just seven kilometres south of Townsville, Oonoonba offers an open, natural learning environment where children explore, investigate, and extend their learning through play.

You’ll guide a passionate team of educators who build strong relationships with families and nurture each child’s curiosity, confidence, and resilience. With two kindy groups of up to 22 children, Oonoonba operates during Queensland school terms, ensuring quality early education and a strong sense of community.

Be part of a place where children, families, and educators truly belong, grow, and thrive.

• Permanent part-time position
• Working 8:00am – 3:30pm Thursday, Friday, and alternate Wednesdays
• Group size of 22 children maximum
• Access to the kindergarten is via the Oonoonba State School

“C&K mean what they say. Putting children first is an embedded part of all their thinking and decision making. I love working with like-minded people.” - Rebecca Ireland - Director, Yuingi Childcare Centre

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Be rewarded for your commitment with a wage rate of $40.92-$56.43 per hour plus Directors allowances plus superannuation!
• Enjoy your holidays as you work during school terms
• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 75% of the gap fee.
• Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
• Funded Blue Card, Police Check and First Aid certifications.
• Take your career to new heights with the Beginning to Teach program, specialized mentoring and professional development opportunities.
• Plus so much more.

What you’ll bring

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• An ACECQA approved Bachelor's Degree of Early Childhood Education or equivalent
• Approved Child Protection Training or the willingness to obtain.
• First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Current Police Check
• Knowledge of the National Quality Framework and Standards and the Early Years Learning Framework and Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guide.

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.

Oonoonba, QLD