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.

Come join the fun at C&K Thornlands! We’re looking for amazing Educators to inspire, play, and grow with our team!

There's something special about working at C&K Thornlands. Maybe it's the way the morning light streams into our learning spaces, or how you can feel the warmth of our community connection the moment you walk through the door.

Under Centre Director Shantai's leadership, our team has created a workplace where you genuinely look forward to Monday mornings. We're the kind of team that celebrates your wins, supports you through challenges, and grows together. Whether you're just starting your early childhood journey or ready to take the next step in your career, you'll find a home here in Thornlands where your ideas matter, your development is prioritized, and your passion for working with children is truly understood.

This isn't just a job – it's a place where you can build a long-term career doing work that genuinely matters, surrounded by people who get it.

• $27.6074 - $35.2090 per hour + Super
• Full-time and part-time opportunities are available, with a rotating roster

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:

• Completed Certificate III or Diploma of Early Childhood Education or working towards (or ACECQA-approved equivalent)
• 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 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.

Thornlands, QLD