Early Childhood Educator

**About Us**:
We are a 59 place long day care centre. At Learning Land For Kids we want to provide our children and families an extended family feeling, so our children feel the security, warmth and love essential to their development and growth. With a strong focus on pedagogy in our learning practices, we can support all children at our centre as they develop confidence and learning strategies which will support a love of learning for life.

**About the role**:
Your role as an Educator at Learning Land for Kids is to provide a nurturing, happy and stimulating learning environment for all children. Creating a warm, welcoming and enjoyable environment which provides quality care for children and families. Working with the Room Leader and Educational leader you will assist in providing thoughtful and meaningful programs that are based on the diversity of learners in our centre. You will focus on putting children’s rights first and give each child a sense of belonging, being and becoming. You will also be responsible for:

- planning, implementing and evaluating the daily program for the children in your care ensuring that it reflects the Early Years Learning Framework
- Create positive learning environments including resources based on child-directed learning
- Go above and beyond in assisting families on all queries, big or small.
- Contribute to and assist in the development and/or evaluation of the programme
- Assist staff in the daily routine of appropriate early childhood education and experiences.
- Supervise and engage in the activities of a group of children during the day that you are responsible for.
- Positively interact with all children, nurturing their confidence and self esteem giving each child individual attention and comfort throughout the day.
- Assist in planning for the ongoing development of each individual child, maintaining up to date observations and portfolios for the child.
- Assist in the recording of children's development.
- Assist in implementing a consistent daily routines for the children.
- Participate in supervising indoor/outdoor environments to provide safety for the children at all times.
- Develop strategies to guide positive children's behaviour
- Build good, open communication with children, families and staff
- Help develop teaching goals and ensure the learning environment is clean, hygienic and safe

**About you**:
You are a hard working, passionate and fun loving cert 111 or diploma trained early childhood educator. You are an excellent communicator and have the ability to provide a developmentally appropriate program that will inspire the children in our care to reach their full potential. You will also:

- Be a strong team player
- Have the ability to lead a team
- Be able to ensure positive role modelling at all times
- Be an open communicator
- Be reliable
- Have the ability to adapt to change in order to continuously improve

Some finer details about the role:
This role is a full time permanent role, you will work 8 or 10 hour shifts we work within a rotating roster. Our centre is open Monday to Friday 6:45am to 6:15pm.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Casual

**Salary**: $24.76 - $30.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Rotating roster

COVID-19 considerations:
Face masks provided for employees. We use Ultraviolet Ray Robot for disinfection Viraton air disinfection to target spike protein virus.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Quakers Hill, NSW 2763: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Certificate I - IV (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)