Lead Educator Westgarth

Join a friendly and supportive team
- Career Pathways and Progression
- Attractive Salary and Additional Guardian Benefits

**Take the lead**

Your skills, experience, and passion for supporting children as they begin to discover and explore their world are just what we need at Guardian **Watsonia**. We have amazing Educators who create safe and secure environments where young children thrive. As Lead Educator, you will work with Educators in the Centre, supporting their teaching practice as they grow and excel as professionals.

You will be building meaningful relationships with children and families, ensuring children are supported to be brave, curious, and imaginative in their learning. Lead Educators are a vital link in supporting Educators and Centre Leadership to develop and implement innovative early learning programs that will set children up for formal schooling and beyond.

As a Lead Educator at Guardian **Watsonia**, you have the opportunity to grow and excel in your career. Guardian offers professional learning and development programs, career pathways, and a truly collaborative and inclusive learning environment where everyone across the organisation is committed to supporting each other in their professional journey.

Joining Guardians means being part of a professional and thoughtful Team with great **benefits **that include:

- **Lead your ongoing professional development and learning** through educational programs and support and mentoring and peer support opportunities.
- **Collaborate with other professional Educators and Teachers through **workshops and meetings to share best practice and learn from each other as you innovate in early childhood education programs based on exploration, discovery, and play.
- **Work in high-quality, well-resourced environments** for children and Educators.
- **Reward and recognition **initiatives to acknowledge the value of your contribution to our purpose.
- **Enjoy a competitive salary and financial benefits,** including attractive remuneration packages, generous childcare discounts, recognition and rewards, and an employee referral program
- **WHEREFIT** - 2,000 discounted corporate offers at up to 50% off for gyms, studios, activewear, healthy meals, beauty and more...
- **Guardian Degree program** - We can support you by offering paid study, flexible work hours, guardian mentors and reimbursement of course fees, because we want to see you succeed. (Terms & conditions apply)
- **Paid first aid courses and renewals**

**The Centre**
Welcome to Guardian Childcare & Education Watsonia, formerly Watsonia Early Learning Centre, a modern, purpose-built childcare and day care centre for children aged six weeks to six years of age. Our child care centre is perfectly situated for families living in surrounding suburbs such as Macleod, Watsonia, Watsonia North, Bundoora and Greensborough.

Focused on giving your child the best possible start to life, diverse team of Teachers and Educators take on a personalised approach to learning - ensuring that each child receives the best possible care tailored to their own needs.

With four different rooms, from Nursery, Toddler, Pre Kinder and Kindergarten, each child is enabled to learn and discover the world in a modern, safe and secure environment.

The Victorian Government offers funding to provide families up to 15 hours of Free Kindergarten a week, in addition to the Childcare Subsidy. The funding offsets the fees for three and four-year-old children that are part of the Centre’s long day care Kindergarten program. Families will save up to $2,050 a year for children aged three years old and above in eligible long day cares in 2024. Ask us for more information when you visit our Centre.

At Guardian Watsonia, we are passionate about guiding developmental outcomes and providing a nurturing environment for children where we come together to share, learn and growinspiring lifelong learning along the way.

**The Opportunity**
Working closely with your fellow Educators and Centre Leadership Team, you will enjoy;
- Developing and maintaining meaningful relationships with children, families, colleagues, and the centre community.
- Lead and guide teams in developing and implementing an innovative early learning program reflective of current early years thinking and practice.
- Documenting and sharing with families in their children's learning and development.
- Actively contributing to the implementation and adoption of the Guardian Curriculum.
- Professional learning and development programs, career pathways, and a truly collaborative and inclusive learning environment.

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**To be considered, you will have**:

- A completed Certificate III and/or Diploma in Children's Services (or working towards)
- Prior experience in long day-care
- Sound, practical working knowledge and implementation of the NQF and the EYLF
- Current Working with Children's Check.

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**Referrals**
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