Room Leader

Lead, manage, and motivate a team of educators
- Location - Tarneit
- Full time; $30.05 per hour + Y staff benefits

**About the role**
You will experience specialist support from a diverse and caring team, as you drive community and family engagement, with children at the heart of your service philosophy.

As the Room Leader role will involve:

- Leading, managing, and motivating appointed room staff to achieve the objectives of the Centre and support staff in their development
- Assisting with the mentoring of permanent and casual employees
- Following an approved curriculum, where you will be a role modeling for children in developing lifelong skills and instilling in them a passion for learning
- Making lessons captivating and enjoyable for individuals and small groups of children
- Delivering consistent high-quality practice of the National Quality Framework
- Ensuring that records are maintained accurately for each child in care

This is a full time opportunity at YMCA Tarneit Early Learning Centre.

The hourly rate is $30.05.

**We value you**
At the YMCA, we value our people. Working for us means you’ll enjoy great work/life balance and a range of benefits such as:

- YMCA Victoria uniform provided
- Individualised personal development plans
- Supportive Centre Manager and Early Years Director (2IC and EL)
- Opportunities for career development and growth across Children’s Programs and our wider organisation including Recreation, Camping, Youth Services and Kingswim
- Free access to gyms, recreation, and aquatics centres across the state
- Free access to the Virtual Y - online health and wellness

**Qualifications required**
- Diploma or equivalent qualifications in Early Childhood / Children’s Services or equivalent
- First Aid and CPR certification
- Anaphylaxis and Asthma certification
- Working with Children Card

**About the Centre**
Tarneit YMCA Early Learning Centre has 6 programs with the capacity to care for and educate 120 children a day. We operate from 6.30am-6.30pm Monday
- Friday. Working in alignment with YMCA Victoria’s philosophy, our service prides itself on fostering and enhancing children’s learning through play, while also providing our community with high quality care and education. We are a purpose-built facility where the team work together to enhance children’s curiosity for learning and engage their interests in exploring the world around them. Not only do we focus on a sense of belonging for children and families and our education team also. Our management are very involved and connected with all programs, providing mentoring and support for educators as we believe this helps to support our high-quality programs. Consistency of staffing for children and families is extremely important to us along with celebrating the many culturally diverse backgrounds of our service. We want you to feel a part of the YMCA Tarneit family.

**(including police check, working with children check and reference checks)**. To learn more about our commitment to safeguarding children and young people visit victoria.ymca.org.au

**How to Apply