Early Childhood Educator

About **You**:

- You have a talent for bringing energy, fun and laughter to a child’s day.
- You love being trusted to do your job and enjoy the freedom to share fresh and innovative ideas to enhance your workplace and the children’s outcomes.
- You thrive on working with an equally passionate and dedicated team who turn up each day to nurture and provide the children with the best start in life.
- You want to work with those who want to be the best - a long-standing and well-respected community provider is a perfect match for your work ethos and philosophy.

Why **Us**:

- Interested in building your career? We offer many opportunities for career progression and movements between our 11 centres so you can build your experience with new environments, teams and roles.
- Associate yourself with us. We’re highly regarded, with high standards and practices. We’re a safe, secure and supportive place to work. Plus, enjoy the backing and expertise of our head office team.
- Enjoy our large, picturesque and natural environments, with the opportunity to build truly meaningful connections with the children and families in our spacious environments.
- Benefits, benefits and more benefits. Local government is a great employer We support your personal wellbeing with extra leave entitlements, access to health services, and so much more. Let’s also not forget no after-hours cleaning (we employ professionals).

Things We'll **Trust** You With:

- The talent to make each family feel valued and included - because relationships and inclusion are at the very heart of what we do.
- The drive to provide children with exceptionally nurturing, fun and inspiring places to play and learn every day.
- The enthusiasm to share what you know with us - we always love to hear and see new approaches and ideas from our team.
- The value you place in belonging to a supportive and respectful team who share a common goal.

Things You’ll **Do**:

- Provide children with a warm and nurturing setting to thrive in.
- Ensure a high-quality early education program is implemented.
- Provide a safe physical environment whilst providing an engaging and meaningful play-based program.
- Work collaboratively with team members to ensure a vibrant and cohesive culture.

The **Fine** Print**:

- **Package**:From $57,702 gross p.a. plus superannuation (Salary paid pro-rated to part time hours worked).
- **Hours of work**:Applicants must be available work a range of shifts from 6:45am - 6:15pm Monday - Friday. ISS and break cover shifts are available between the hours of 10:00am - 3:00pm.
- We offer a number of benefits including 5.2 weeks leave plus RDOs, above award salary, renewal of certifications, generous leave entitlements (annual, personal, sick & parental), time in lieu for after hours meetings, access to our EAP (Employee Assistance Program), flu vaccinations, salary sacrificing, programming time, training and career advancement and no after hours cleaning in the Early Education Centres

Keen To **Learn** More?
- Learn more about working for our Children's Services team here.

**About Us**:
If you want to make a difference and be part of a challenging and rewarding working environment, then joining us just might be the right career move for you Join a passionate and dedicated team covering a diversity of services, industries and occupations.
- At Sutherland Shire Council we do more than serve our community - we are our community. Our energy can be seen in everything we do. From having a can-do attitude, to embracing change and opportunities, being people-centred and working together as one.