Early Childhood Educators

**Various start dates available**

Location: 2 Woomera Circuit, Dubbo

Job Type: Full-time & Part-time Opportunities

Salary: Extremely competitive remuneration + sizeable bonuses based on performance

Rosters: Shifts between 6.30am to 6pm | Optional higherrate weekend shifts

What roles are available?

• Cert III Educators (experienced and new)
• Diploma Educators
• ECTs

Who are we looking for?

• The best of the best, Educators who have exceptional skills, experience and motivation.
• New Educators who want to be the best of the best, excited to learn, motivated and provided with extensive training.

What makes Aspiring Early Learners - exceptionally different?

• More Opportunities
  
  Our larger 132 student brand new facility allows us to positively maximise Student access to more Educators, more opportunities, more excursions, more resources and more funding to reinvest into supporting Students, Families, Educators & improving our curriculum.
• Limiting our number of centres
  
  Limiting ourselves to 20 locations - we keep a very tight focus on quality and ensure Educators, Families and Students receive individualised experiences.
• Treating Educators as family
  
  We want to be proud to work at AEL and enjoy our time surrounded by happy people. Educators are on a first name basis with the owners and get to directly contribute to our direction and key decisions.
• Guardian and Child focus
  
  Parents need support and guidance too - our curriculum, training and materials focus on parents and children.
• Invest Heavily in Quality with Humanity
  
  We invest heavily in comprehensive frameworks, processes, technology and training - while retaining the humanity and small organisation feel. Focusing on Children's real happiness and safety not just 'ticking boxes' or 'taking photos'.
• Quality education matched to student needs
  
  We focus on leveraging the best global frameworks and utilising different pedagogies based on individual student needs and topics of learning - no one size fits all approach.
• Exceptional facilities
  
  Our facilities are designed for Children to be in small engaging groups, less noise/distractions, higher staff ratios and access to Quiet Areas, Focus Areas, Family Meeting Rooms, Chef/Kitchen engagement Areas, Outdoor multi-purpose areas, High Activity Areas, Social Areas.
• Dedicated Sleep Zones
  
  For our littlest of sleepers - we have a rare to find dedicated sleep and rest area, in addition to cot rooms, children sleep in small, quiet cot rooms with a maximum of 4 babies - sleep is critical for children and we work hard to maximise it.

Our Educators experiences?

We take our Educators experiences seriously - Educators are front of mind and a key focus.

• We back Educators to test and try new ideas
• We treat our teams like family - you'll be part of a friendly environment
• Full time cleaners and Chefs - less time cleaning, more time Educating
• Benefit from an over-resourced environment - we focus on higher than minimum ratios.
• Access to Global and Australia's leading educators - we fly them in or video conference them in via our dedicated training spaces.

What can you get excited about?

There is a long list…

Some of our favourites

• Sizeable Bonuses based on Student/Family satisfaction + Child development milestones being met
• Chef Prepared Breakfasts and Lunches for Educators
• Extensive Training & Development Opportunities - with an extensive training budget
• Ideas Program – run by the owners with dedicated funding for the best service improvement ideas, your ideas will be implemented quickly with no excuses or delays, owners are very responsive and proactive to ensure Excellent ACECQA performance targets can be met
• Owners are extensively supportive and invest heavily in children, staff, training, and facilities.
• Every team member is provided with a personalised business debit card & budget to allow you to choose and purchase additional materials, toys, educational aids to suit your teaching style.
• Guaranteed Weekly Programming Time & Break Times

The list goes on...

• Supportive Environment
• Exceptional Values and Philosophy
• Above market Salary and Benefits
• Very convenient location with public transport options and significant of on-site parking available
• Brand new facilities
• Discounts
• Guaranteed Placement of your children - upon opening of the centre
• Dedicated educator budget and educator input on resources
• Your birthday day off (or choose another day if it falls on a public holiday or weekend)
• Leaders provided with personal laptops
• Allowances for mobile phones and data plans
• Work email and Microsoft Office licences for your personal devices
• We don't make you pay extra for additional uniform pieces
• Option to transfer between facilities
• Option to work weekend shifts are higher rates (purely based on your choice)
• Being outdoors in a play area and landscaped area designed by Australia's leading Architects.
• Amazing noise suppression and electronic noise monitors in each room to help manage excessive noise to ensure you go home just that little more relaxed.
• A dedicated multi-purpose indoor and a dedicated covered outdoor learning area, enabling you to have a varied classroom environment
• Dedicated rooms for staff meetings, parent meeting, programming
• Manageable room sizes ranging between 10, 12 to 20 students – with additional break out areas for specialised learning, development and quiet activities for groups - with most activities broken up into 4,5 or 10 student groups.

What do you need?

• Rights to work in Australia
• Working with children check – current
• First Aid certifications – current
• Police check (national certificate) – current
• ACECQA recognised qualification

We take child protection very seriously, a WWCC and National Police Background check + First Aid certificates + References are mandatory (to be provided before time of employment).