Lead Educator

24 hours ago

Brisbane Southern Suburbs Logan Queensland, Australia CandK Full time $60,000 - $90,000 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 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 Mount Gravatt West Community Childcare Centre

As one of our highly valued Lead Educators at C&K Mount Gravatt West Community Childcare Centre, you'll work alongside your team to create a safe, supportive and engaging play-based learning environment for children, their families and our wider community. We have a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds with our families and staff. This provides us the opportunity to incorporate these cultures and languages throughout the centre. Our approach to inclusion and diversity ensures that every child, family and staff member feels safe, welcomed and important.

  • 40 hours per week + RDO per month 
  • Rotating roster from 7am to 6pm
  • C&K Mount Gravatt West is tucked away in the quiet end of Clough Street in Mt Gravatt. Our centre is less than 15 minutes from the Brisbane city and close to bus stops servicing the area.
  • Permanent Full Time Position

"From the moment I interviewed and toured my service I knew it was a place I wanted to be. Walking in the doors felt like a warm hug from the first day and the team has been nothing but welcoming." - Jessica Christenson – Lead Educator, Yuingi 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 $ $ 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, or a willingness to commence studying, 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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