Lead Educator
- 497825
- Herston
- Lead Educator (Group Leader)
- Permanent Full Time
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 Herston Road Community Childcare Centre
Join C&K Herston Road as a passionate Lead Educator and play a vital role in creating a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment where children can learn, grow, and thrive. Working alongside a supportive team, you'll inspire curiosity, foster meaningful relationships, and deliver high-quality play-based learning experiences for children and their families.
At C&K Herston Road, we believe every child deserves a strong sense of belonging. Our welcoming centre provides a warm and inclusive environment where children build lasting connections with educators and peers. Through a balance of intentional teaching, structured experiences, and child-led exploration, we support each child's development across all areas of learning.
- $36.8674 - $41.3509 per hour + Super
- Full-time or part-time opportunities available
- Rotating roster between 6:30am and 6:00pm
- Work with Queensland's most trusted and established early childhood education provider
- Access professional development and career growth opportunities
- Enjoy a collaborative and supportive team culture
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.
- 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.
- Access to scholarships of up to $6000 under the Qualifications Pathway Program.
- 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:
- Hold a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care.
- First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
- Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
- Child Safety Training Certificate.
- 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 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.
Herston, QLD
