Lead Educator | C&K Newmarket Community Childcare Centre

Lead Educator - C&K Newmarket Community Childcare Centre

• Lead Educator position in the Pre-Kindy room (2-3 years)
• Continuous access to professional development
• Be a part of children's learning and discovery 

About the role:

At C&K Newmarket Community Childcare Centre, the service is now looking for a qualified Lead Educator to be a part of the Team leading in the Pre-Kindy room (2-3 years).

C&K Newmarket is a 57 place Centre, providing quality education and care as a community-based not-for-profit Centre in Newmarket, North Brisbane.

Your new role will see you working permanent full time, 40 hours per week with a monthly RDO. Please note that this role required you to be on a rotating roaster of open and close. This position will be as soon as possible for the right candidate.

As an Educator with C&K, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow with us, to bring new skills and ideas to challenge your knowledge and deliver excellence in early education and care. For the role we are looking for an Educator who is energetic, passionate and fun, who will pride themselves on their passion and dedication for early education and care within the learning environment and have exceptional skills to build relationships with families and children.

The benefits:

You will be given training and support 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 our employees access to online training and courses for our educators to access.

As well as;

• Above award wage, as a Group Leader up to 12.87% above the award, dependent upon level on commencement
• Beautiful natural learning environments for children and educators to learn together
• 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
• Feel connected through regular C&K updates, use of online systems, access to policies and procedures and online learning
• Paid professional development and training opportunities

 Ideal applicants will have:

• Hold a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care or higher
• Current first aid/CPR including asthma and anaphylaxis
• Previous experience in a childcare setting working in the Pre-Kindy room (2-3 years) age group
• An understanding of your duties as an Assistant educator and be a team player
• Passion for creating and delivering a simulating learning environment
• An understanding of the provision of a safe, well planned indoor and outdoor learning environment
• Awareness of the National Quality Framework
• Skilled with documenting observations of children's behaviour and development, in the form of learning stories.
• An ability to implement a planned program, in collaboration with the room leader ensuring the needs of individual children and the group are met

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.