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 116 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.

The Positive Behaviour Guidance Coach supports children’s access and engagement through case management, assessment, and collaborative partnerships with families, staff, and external agencies. It involves psychoeducational assessments, maintaining confidential records, contributing to policy reviews, and delivering professional development to enhance inclusive practices and ensure high-quality, child-focused educational support within C&K services.

• Two Positions based at C&K Central 
• Fixed Term Part Time for two years
• Monday to Thursday

You’ll help us shape the future of children in our care by:

• Providing face-to-face, evidence-based support for teachers and educators to build knowledge and practical skills in specialist behaviour support
• Enhancing and develop educators’ professional toolkit for understanding the function of, and strategies to, positively guide a range of behaviours, including those that are complex, trauma related, or indicative of developmental conditions.
• Working with C&K Central teams to ensure the current ‘Interactions with children’ policy and strategic documents related to quality improvement across Quality Areas 1, 5 and 7, reflect best practice.

“I love being part of an organisation whose vision is to see a state ‘where every child flourishes’. I value the opportunity to contribute, even in a small way, to the impactful work that is being done in the early childhood education sector.” - Alex Bron, Management Accountant

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 35% 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.
• BUPA health insurance discounts
• Funded Blue Card and National Police Check.
• Take your career to new heights with professional development opportunities.
• Support the growth of our teams and earn a $1000 referral bonus reward.
• 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:

• ACECQA approved bachelor’s degree in early childhood
• And one of the following:
• Completed coursework Masters, majoring in guidance and counselling, or an equivalent completed coursework Masters including study in the areas of psychoeducational assessment, counselling and mental health OR
• General or provisional registration as a psychologist through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Psychology Board OR
• an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accredited four- or five-year qualification in psychology, that at the time of completion, would enable general registration as a psychologist following completion of a board approved internship or accredited sequence of study.
• Highly desirable:
• • A minimum of two (2) years full-time, or equivalent, Early Childhood teaching experience
• • Current membership of the Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association (QGCA)
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Current Police Check

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.