Early Childhood Educator

Casual positions available at our Lake Munmorah Early Learning Centre
- Be part of a supportive team environment with growth opportunities
- Work in an exceeding service and a high-quality program for preschoolers

**About the role**:
Our Early Learning Centre is located on the grounds of St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School at Lake Munmorah NSW. We are seeking a motivated and experienced Early Childhood Educator’s to join our team who excel in understanding the needs of children and are dedicated to creating a warm, caring and safe environment.

Our centre is open from Monday to Friday, during school terms. This is a casual role with work available between 7:30am to 5:30pm.

**The Early Childhood Educator is responsible for**
- Assisting in implementing and evaluating programs for children aged 3- 5 years in an Early Learning Centre
- Working with the Director in ensuring compliance with relevant law, regulations and National Quality Framework
- Providing a safe, nurturing and positive learning environment for children
- Building strong and effective relationships with children and their families
- Ability to form collaborative and positive relationship with colleagues

**Requirements**:

- Hold a Diploma or a Cert III in Children Services
- Have a current Working with Children Clearance
- Completed CHCPRT025 ‘Identify and report children and young people at risk’
- Experience working in Children Services, particularly with children aged 3-5
- Completed or willing to complete Safe Food Handling training
- Have or will complete before starting a First Aid, Asthma and Anaphylaxis certificate

**What sets us apart?**
Our centre provides a beautiful, calm environment for both children and educators to enjoy. We have an experienced and skilled team who are excited to come to work each day and deliver a rich program that is flexible to the needs and interests of the children. Staffing arrangements and work conditions are of a high standard, ensuring the team is well supported and their wellbeing is high priority. As a not-for-profit community based preschool, our philosophy and practice reflects the importance of early childhood play based education in the life long journey of learning and development for all.

**What do the children want?**
We asked the children what they would want a new teacher at preschool to be like. Here are some of their answers:

- To be a calm teacher, kind and nice
- Talk nicely, not loud and don’t yell
- Give us good activities to do that are fun
- A teacher that can do cool things like juggle with a ball
- Take us on walks to the big school and even the ice-cream shop
- They should sing songs and do dances and read stories that we like
- A teacher that can do puzzles and paint at the easel
- They need to keep our room clean and help us pack away
- Give us a cuddle when we are sad and when we are happy, and look after us if we hurt ourselves

**Culture and Benefits**
We know that changing roles is a big decision - so here is what we can offer you:

- Salary packaging - also known as salary sacrifice - means allocating a portion of your salary to pay certain expenses before income tax is calculated. So, on pay day you pay less income tax and have more money for the things that matter.
- Access to training and learning opportunities.
- An Employee Assistance Program offering free and confidential counselling and support.
- The opportunity to work in a high-quality service that is continually rated EXCEEDING the National Quality Standard.

**About us**
At CatholicCare, we understand the importance of children getting off to a good start in happy, creative and supportive environments that provide opportunities for children to explore, make friends, build on their strengths and get any extra help they need to set them on a positive learning journey.

Our dedicated teams of educators embrace a child’s right to play and facilitate rich learning environments which are relevant, meaningful and full of possibilities, so children are safe, happy, healthy and included. We offer a range of services for children to suit their age and family preferences including early learning and care centres, out of school hours care, vacation care and family day care.

We are a safe, respectful, and inclusive employer. **We welcome all applicants, regardless of their cultural background, gender, faith or disability**. Our organisation will accommodate any reasonable requests to support you to thrive during the recruitment process and beyond.