Lead Educator

1 day ago

Central QLD Queensland, Australia CandK Full time $100,000 - $120,000 per year

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 116 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 Emerald Community Childcare Centre 

As one of our highly valued Lead Educators, you'll support and guide children's learning and development, so they become curious, capable and confident lifelong learners.

Our Centre Director Jess along with her team will be there to support you. Using your skills, ideas and passion for education, you'll help shape the future of children in our care by collaborating with your team to create a safe, supportive and engaging play-based learning environment for children, their families and our wider community.

 The role:

  • Permanent Full Time or Permanent Part Time Opportunity available
  • Shifts anywhere between 6 am to 6 pm
  • Opening and Closing shifts
  • Positions starts in December 2025

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 $ $ per hour plus superannuation.
  • 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.
  • Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
  • Access to scholarships of up to $6000 under the Qualifications Pathway Program.
  • Plus so much more.

What you'll bring

 If you're committed to guiding children's early learning and development, we'll set you up for success

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

  • Hold a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care.
  • First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
  • 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. 

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