Lead Educator

**Permanent Full Time, Monday to Friday (38 hours per week)**: - **Grow with us with unrivalled support for your learning and development**: - **Above Award Rates** **Where Every Child Flourishes** We are Queensland’s biggest childcare and kindergarten provider with nearly 350 early services located across our sunny state. We strive to encourage a love of learning through our curriculum approach of Listening and Learning Together Our team are driven by our purpose of nurturing and inspiring children to succeed and passionate about our culture of collaboration, inclusivity and dedication to the growth of all our people, little or otherwise **_ C&K Strathpine South Childcare Centre_** is a 5-room service offering Early Childhood Education for children from 6 weeks through to 5 years. It is one of C&K’s bigger centres (licensed up to 125 children per day) it can be described as fast paced yet a fun and supportive environment where we encourage and strongly promote personal and professional development and innovative thinking. Our centre reflects the C&K philosophy of inclusiveness and our spaces have been designed to promote competence, independent exploration and nature-based play. This is a **permanent full time position**. We are looking for a **lead educator** who can be flexible, and work shifts between the hours of **6:30am - 6:30pm on rotating roster**s. You must be an approachable leader amongst the community of families, children and employees; with a hands-on approach in managing the service operationally. **What we will require from you as a Lead Educator**: The successful lead educator will pride themselves on their mentoring ability and have a passion for working closely with educators within the learning environment. We are looking for someone who can build exceptional relationships with families and who is dedicated to furthering their own learning as an early childhood professional. You will be a self-starter, who has previous experience as a leader and approachable amongst the community of families, children and employees; with a hands-on approach in managing the service operationally when required. You must continue to perform your duties of your current role at the service as a Group Leader, When required, step up to Director position, sometimes at short notice - Assist the Director in leading the daily operations of the service - Assist the Director in ensuring the service meets compliance obligations - Model professional and ethical behaviour **You must have the ability to**: - Hold a Diploma in Early education and care (or an approved Diploma level qualification recognised by ACECQA) - Have initiative and strong sense of personal responsibility for continuous improvement, meeting objectives and managing health and safety risks. - Knowledge of National Quality Framework and Standards ("NQF" and "NQS"), the Early Years Learning Framework ("EYLF") - Previous experience working as a Lead educator or within a childcare setting - An ability to work as an effective team member - An understanding of the provision of a safe, well planned indoor and outdoor learning environment - Ability to drive and implement a planned program, ensuring the needs of individual children and group are met - An ability to document observations of children's behaviour and development - Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring and supporting early childhood education and care services/programs to deliver high quality outcomes. - Evidence of sound professional experience that shows initiative and strong sense of personal responsibility for meeting objectives, modelling of professional and ethical behaviour, commitment to personal development; and display or courage in the provision of advice and decision making. **Joining us will bring you**: - **Unrivalled Support**: Join a welcoming and collaborative team committed to providing you all the training, learning and support you need to grow your skills and knowledge We want you to evolve and grow within our team. - **Wellbeing**:Access our comprehensive support services like our Employee Assistance Program. - **C&K's exclusive Birth to Three program -** we want you to 'slow down' and be in the moment with the children as they learn and explore the world. Our focus is on building deep and trusting relationships with the children. All C&K employees are required to undergo background checks which includes a police check. Also, all C&K employees will need to have obtained their 1st and 2nd vaccinations for COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Our new centre reflects the C&K philosophy of inclusiveness and our spaces have been designed to promote competence, independent exploration and nature-based play. We look forward to introducing you to our exciting new centre, C&K Strathpine South Childcare