Assistant Centre Manager - Education And Care

Sonas Early Learning and Care is seeking  motivated, knowledgeable, and dedicated Assistant Centre Manager sto guide and lead a Education and Care teams with on-the-floor practices at our purpose-built centres:

• Sonas Early Learning & Care Wanneroo
• Sonas Early Learning & Care Ashby

Bring your experience and knowledge to a dedicated team, managing and leading “on your feet, in real-time” to get the best outcome for the children and families in your service! 

Our management structure is like no other! Stay connected and utilise your knowledge and skills in childcare with more on-the-floor time with your team's and children!

OFFERING - 

$10,000 PER YEAR ABOVE AWARD SALARY

95% STAFF DISCOUNT ON CHILDCARE (Conditions apply)

PERSONAL LEARNING & GROWTH INCENTIVES up to $5000 ongoing!

STAFF PANTRY - your lunch is supplied by us every day, worth between $4000 and $5000 per year

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Sonas Early Learning & Care

Sonas ~ Irish-Gaelic def. Happiness

A place where Children's Happiness, Joy, and Well-being is our priority to treasure and protect childhood.

Our purpose is to positively impact the growth, development, and lives of children and their families where the goals and purpose of children, families, individuals, team members, and communities align for the benefit and happiness of all. 

We believe that by treasuring young children in our care, we foster happy childhood memories for children and their families.

If our purpose aligns with your purpose, we want to hear from you!

JOB TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES -

We expect that as a professional you will spend most of your time actively and physically leading your teams on the ground - we don't lead from offices at Sonas, we are present with our people, guiding their practice and pedagogy in real-time. Accordingly, under the guidance of an expereienced Senior Centre Manager, as a Sonas Assistant Centre Manager you will:

• Lead teams to create innovative and exciting learning programs for children in family-grouping settings based on children's interests, strengths, and abilities.
• Build strong, professional, and genuine relationships with children and their families, to best support family participation in our program and build trust between the service and our clients.
• Build strong, professional, and genuine relationships with your team, your colleagues, and your management
• Lead and mentor educators, trainees, and other employees in all aspects of high-quality Education and Care and best practice
• Actively participate in team events to promote cohesiveness and strong team culture.
• Create an effective quality improvement plan to work in conjunction with your team and management.
• Continue your own learning journey through professional development and training.
• Create effective relationships within the leadership team and contribute to a culture of inclusiveness, sharing, and support

This is a higer duties role - you will be directly responsible for all outcomes of the service, under the guidance of a Senior Centre Manager, who manages two sites. 

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE -

As a Sonas Assistant Center Manager (focused on practice leadership) you will need to:

• Hold an Early Childhood Teaching Qualification, a Diploma of Children's Services, or an equivalent EARLY CHILDHOOD QUALIFICATION.
• Hold a current First Aid qualification, including Asthma and Anaphylaxis.
• Be familiar with the "Family-Grouping " or "Mixed-aged Grouping" Approaches. 
• Be committed to implementing these approachesm and leading teams to implement the
• Be committed to  leading teams to implement these approaches successfully
• Experience with managing conflict effectively for positive outcomes.
• Experience with dealing with feedback and complaints appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Experience with conducting incident reviews.
• Be prepared to agree to become a “Responsible Person” and “Nomintated Supervisor”.

Our Sonas centres are family-run services with boastful, well-resourced natural play spaces. Sonas has a reputation for providing a uniquely personal level of Education and Care to our children and our families that is unique and unlike any other service in Western Australia.