• Grow your career and impact with kind, humble people who value you
• Be rewarded for your commitment with a wage rate of $31-$35 per hour plus salary sacrificing options.
• Permanent full time - 40 hours per week with monthly RDO

For Children. For You. For Always.

Are you ready to make a difference that lasts a lifetime?

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.

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

Find your Better Way

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We want the same for you and joining C&K means impacting a child’s life journey for the time they spend with us and long after they leave.  But, so much of what we do depends on you.

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 $31-$35 per hour plus salary sacrificing options.
• Live, work and be well with our Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.
• Find a healthy work-life balance with parental leave, return-to-work support, and family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres.
• Fully funded Blue Card, Police Check, First Aid, CPR, and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
• Save money with childcare discounts up to 75% for eligible employees with children enrolled at a C&K Branch Centre.
• Be rewarded for supporting the growth of our teams with a $1000 referral bonus for referring a successful candidate to a C&K vacancy.
• Access a nationally recognised qualification in the high-demand field of early childhood education and care with subsidised training for eligible students through the C&K College.
• Scholarships of up to $6000 for eligible Educators who are working towards their Diploma qualification under the Qualifications Pathways Program (QPP).
• Are you working towards your Early Childhood Teaching qualifications? Eligible students can access up to $35,000 in scholarship subsidies under the Qualifications Pathways Program (QPP) to provide you with the support and skills to progress your early childhood career.

Help shape the future of children in our care

Join Leah and her team at C&K Newmarket Community Childcare Centre, where every day is an opportunity to inspire and be inspired! Located off Baradine Street, just 15 minutes from Brisbane’s city centre, our centre is the perfect blend of convenience and community. With easy access to nearby bus stops, we make your daily commute a breeze.

As one of our cherished Lead Educators, you'll be the heart and soul of our learning community. You'll inspire children to become curious, capable, and confident lifelong learners. Your creativity, passion, and commitment to education will help us craft a safe, supportive, and exciting play-based learning environment where children, families, and the wider community feel welcomed and valued.

What you’ll bring

Whether you’re an experienced early childhood professional, newly graduated or just commencing your studies, if you’re energetic, fun and committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have or be willing to work towards:

• A minimum of a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care or willingness to commence studying that qualification.
• First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• A Police Check current within three months (or willingness to obtain one).

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 strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people from all backgrounds.

Newmarket, QLD

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