• Permanent part time 30 hours a week
• 3 room childcare centre
• Position commencing in March 2021

About the role:

At C&K Wilston Community Childcare Centre, we are currently seeking a passionate and enthusiastic Group Leader to join our team in March 2021. C&K Wilston is housed in a traditional Queensland style building and accommodates children between the ages of 6 weeks to 5 years. Our homelike environment ensures children feel safe, secure, and supported while in the care of our qualified educators.

The Centre offers a unique environment with large natural play spaces and we encourage the care of our natural world through modelling and teaching responsibility and sustainability practices. They promote sustainable initiatives by recycling, water conservation through the use of water tanks, worm farm, green wall and bush tucker gardens to connect children and families to the environment.

Your new role will have you working as a Group Leader float across the centre, you will be required to cover morning ratios, morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch breaks within all 3 rooms. You will be working permanent part time 30 hours per week, 6 hours each day. 

C&K provides high quality educational experiences through the implementation of the new revised curriculum "Listening & Learning together" by encouraging children to express their own ideas through play to develop friendships, explore, solve problems, help others, imagine, create and extend on their interests. 

Ideal applicants will have:

• Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care (or equivalent qualification)
• Hold a current blue card (or willing to obtain)
• Current first aid/CPR including asthma and anaphylaxis
• Previous experience working with the pre-Kindy age 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
• An ability to document observations of children's behaviour and development
• An ability to implement a planned program, ensuring the needs of individual children and the group are met

The benefits:

You will be given training and support to C&K's new revised curriculum "Listening & Learning Together" as well as our Birth to Three approach. C&K offers an online learning education hub and has a dedicated Learning and Development department which provides our employees access to online training and courses for our educators to access. 

As well as;

• Beautiful natural learning environments for children and educators to learn together
• Work for one of Queensland's leading early education not-for-profit providers
• Career progression opportunities
• C&K pays for our permanent staff to have a paid blue card renewals and First Aid
• Build your networks through C&K in the Early Childhood sector
• Feel connected through regular C&K updates, use of online systems, access to policies and procedures and online learning
• Feeling connected through your community
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Salary packaging options & above award wage
• Priority access to C&K Childcare and Kindergarten services

About C&K:

C&K is proud to be the largest and longest established provider of community-based early childhood education and care services in Queensland.  Working at C&K you will have access to many benefits including, but not limited to, above-award wages, salary packaging options, priority access to C&K childcare and kindergarten centres and access to study through our C&K College. 

C&K is committed to an inclusive workforce and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from culturally-diverse backgrounds. 

All C&K employees are required to undergo background checks which includes police checks.

Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only. C&K reserve the right to close the advertisement before this date is reached. Therefore, it is encouraged that you submit your application as soon as possible.

This online application is the first step in our recruitment process.

You will shortly be asked to:

• Provide some personal details
• Upload your resume (in a Word or PDF document)
• Complete some application questions