Kindergarten with Extended Hours Educator

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.

**Help Shape Futures at C&K Seven Hills Community Kindergarten**

The Extended Hours Program commences from the end of the kindergarten program and continues the children’s learning into the afternoon. As one of our highly valued **Educators at C&K Seven Hills Community Kindergarten** in the extended kindergarten program, you’ll work alongside the Extended Kindergarten Coordinator to provide support and guide children’s learning and development, so they become curious, capable and confident lifelong learners.
- **Two days in a week, Monday and Tuesday, From 1.50pm-6.15pm**:

- **Extended Kindergarten Program**:

- **Extra hours during the school holidays**:

- **C&K Seven Hills is located on D'Arcy Road in Seven Hills. We are located on Seven Hills State School grounds, tucked in a natural bush setting near the school oval, behind the tennis courts.**:

- **Permanent Part time Educator Position**
- “This is what I enjoy about working with C&K; the staff truly embody the company’s purpose of nurturing and inspiring children to succeed in an ever-changing world.” - Mackenzee Nicolson - Assistant Educator, Gumdale C&K_

**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.
- Be rewarded for your commitment with a wage rate of $29.92 - $37.01 per hour plus $1000 retention bonus paid twice yearly.
- 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.
- Access a nationally recognised qualification in the high-demand field of early childhood education and care with subsidised training for eligible students through the C&K College.
- Scholarships of up to $3000 for eligible Educators who are working towards their Certificate III qualification under the Qualifications Pathways Program (QPP).
- Plus so much more.

**What you’ll bring**

Whether you’re an experienced early childhood professional, newly graduated or just commencing your studies, if you’re energetic, fun and committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will either have or be willing to work towards:

- A minimum of a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care or working towards this qualification.
- First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification (we will fund this).
- 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._