Kindergarten Teacher

City Kids Early Learning Centre is a privately owned and run long day care centre, providing education and care to children aged 0 to 5 years. City Kids has six children's rooms that cater for babies, toddlers and kinder aged children. The kindergarten is currently a 3-5 year old Government funded program and is run across two rooms as well as a roof top playground.

Kindergarten Teacher Role:

This role is a full time, 40 hour per week role. The kinder program operates from Monday to Thursday from 8am to 4.30pm, with an entire planning day on Friday for the kinder teacher.

City Kids follows the EYLF and NQS to inform curriculum planning and delivery in a play based manner. The City Kids philosophy centres around working closely with families and creating a “home away from home” for children. Also important is the wellbeing of all staff and children, with a supportive environment to help people achieve their best.

The successful applicant will have:

• A minimum of two year's experience as a Kindergarten Teacher
• Evidence of effective curriculum planning and delivery that meets a broad range of needs
• Effective documentation that informs learning and teaching
• Strong communication skills with families and co-educators
• Effective leadership skills
• Positive behaviour guidance strategies
• Knowledge of children with additional needs and how to support them
• Knowledge of Child Safe Standards and hold children's safety and wellbeing in the highest regard

Education and Training required:

• ACECQA Approved Early Childhood qualification
• Hold a current VIT registration
• Completed mandatory reporting training
• Current first aid training

Salary and Benefits:
Salary is in accordance with the Educational Services (Teacher's) Award.
Kinder Teacher will get an additional four weeks of annual leave per year (8 weeks in total), eight hours per week of non-contact planning time, car park spot 4/5 days.

OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILD SAFETY & CULTURAL SAFETY

City Kids Early Learning Centre is committed to the safety and well-being of all children as our first priority.  This isthe primaryfocus ofour interactions,planning, relationships and service widedecision making.

City Kids has zero tolerance for child abuse or racism of any kind.

We are committed to providing a child safe environment where all children are safe (and feel safe and their voices are heard about decisions that affect their lives.

At City Kids we work to promote a culture of shared attitudes, values and policies/practices that prioritise the safety and well-being of all children.

Every person involved in City Kids ELC has a responsibility to consider the importance of the specific role they play both individually and collectively, to ensure the well-being and safety of all children. Our leadership team champions this child safe culture, and sets the tone for our team to follow.
 

City Kids operates in accordance with the Victorian child safe standards. At City Kids we work hard to:

• Provide a culturally safe environment where children have the right to express and enjoy their culture. Acknowledge and appreciate the strengths of Aboriginal culture and its importance to the wellbeing and safety of Aboriginal Children.
• Embed child safety and wellbeing in leadership, governance and whole service culture
• Empower children in their rights and encourage them to have a voice in decisions affecting them
• Keep our families and community informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing 
• Uphold and respect equity and diverse needs
• Engage only the most suitable people who are supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing in practice
• Value respectful communication and partnerships with families to put children first
• Commit to on-going professional development and training to keep up to date with child safe practices
• Provide learning environments and interactions with technology which are always as safe as necessary
• Review and improve the way we implement the Victorian child safe standards over time
• Develop centre policies and procedures that communicate how we are a safe organization for children

References:

Department of Education and Training webpage: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/programs/health/protect/ChildSafeStandard2_ExampleStatement.pdf,   accessed 30/8/19

The Child Safe Standards webpage: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/childhood/providers/regulation/Pages/childsafe.aspx  accessed  24/5/22

PROTECT: Early Childhood Guidance webpage: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/childhood/professionals/health/childprotection/Pages/ecguidance.aspx,   accessed  30/8/19

Commission for Children and Young People. “A guide for creating a Child Safe Organisation, 5th edition”. April 2022

Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Keeping Our Kids Safe: Cultural Safety and the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, 2021.

Schools:Culturally  safe  environments  guidance.  https://www.vic.gov.au/schools-culturally-safe-environments-guidance

UNICEF UK. (1989).The United Nationsconvention on the rights of the child.https://downloads.unicef.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2010/05/UNCRC_PRESS200910web.pdf?_ga=2.78590034.795419542.1582474737- 1972578648.1582474737