Educator - Carindale - Extending Kindy

For Children. For You. For Always.

Are you ready to make a difference that lasts a lifetime?

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.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

Find your Better Way

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We want the same for you and joining C&K means impacting a child’s life journey for the time they spend with us and long after they leave.  But, so much of what we do depends on you.

We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Enjoy stability and a better work life balance with a permanent part time opportunity supporting the Extended Kindy Program Monday to Friday from 1:50pm - 6:15pm. 
• Be rewarded for your commitment with a wage rate of $24-31 per hour plus salary sacrificing options.
• Live, work and be well with our Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.
• Find a healthy work-life balance with parental leave, return-to-work support, and family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres.
• We fully fund your Blue Card, Police Check, First Aid, CPR, and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
• Be rewarded for supporting the growth of our teams with a $1000 referral bonus for referring a successful candidate to a C&K vacancy.
• Take advantage of the C&K College to further develop your skills and qualifications.

Help shape the future of children in our care

C&K Carindale Community Kindergarten are currently looking for Assistant Educator who is passionate about working alongside children in their early years in our Extended Kindergarten Program. 

As a successful candidate, your role will be to support the delivery of the extended kindergarten program to children aged 3-5 years at C&K Carindale Community Kindergarten. C&K Carindale has a supportive teaching team, a purposefully designed outdoor environment and is well resourced.

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.

As a home away from home, our environment provides a safe, secure, supported space for your child.  Our dedicated, professional, long term and qualified educators nurture play-based learning. Our environment encourages children to follow their interests, choose between indoor and outdoor play and be encouraged, challenged and supported in their learning.  We have a strong sense of belonging in the Coolum Community and regularly engage with the community with incursions and excursions.

What you’ll bring

Whether you’re an experienced early childhood professional, newly graduated or just commencing your studies, if you’re energetic, fun and committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will either have or be willing to work towards:

• A minimum of a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care or willingness to commence studying that qualification.
• 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 strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people from all backgrounds.

“We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant."

Carindale, QLD