AddressWe are looking for a diploma-qualified Room Leader who is passionate and committed to providing excellence in education and care.
Benefits include
- Above award salary - $32+ + experience dependent
- Supportive Leadership - a management team that is accessible when you need them, supportive if you are not having a good day, and high-fiving you when you have a win.
- Abundant in learning resources, natural outdoor settings are filled with open-ended spaces to explore and extend learning experiences
- Professional Development Paid ongoing training and career advancement opportunities
- Flexibility and Work/Life balance - Management works ferociously to ensure that they craft rotating rosters that accommodate your needs
- Staff childcare discounts are provided for permanent educators
- The most important benefit - is a fun, collaborative, and genuinely friendly work culture
Our client, a 70-place ELC, offers a fresh approach to early learning, drawing on the natural environment to inspire children to become discoverers, learners, and thinkers. Educators make sustainable practices a daily routine - from growing vegetables in-house to recycling materials for arts and crafts sessions.
This role will work with the team in the nursery of eleven babies and is supported by experienced educators who are familiar with the routines. The position comes with a high degree of support from other lead educators and management.
The successful candidate will ideally have experience leading a small team of educators, acting as a positive mentor, and developing effective teamwork strategies to ensure ongoing collaborative and positive communication strategies to guide day-to-day routines, programs, and developments.
About you:
- A completed Diploma in Child Services (or higher). If you hold a Cert III and are committed to studying for your Diploma, we could consider this.
- Have lead educator experience or, at the minimum, substantial experience working as an educator in the nursery in a similar setting.
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong understanding of contemporary child-safe practices and sound knowledge of the mandatory reporter requirements and child-safe standards.
- Ability to document, develop, plan, and implement learning experiences that are delivered in an age-appropriate, safe, challenging, and stimulating way for children.
- Contribute to program reflections and program developments as part of the team environment.
- Apply a professional level of physical and emotional energy consistently, five days a week.
Candidates must be dedicated, reliable, and committed to working within our team. The ability to work full-time hours between 7.30 am and 6.30 pm is helpful.
If you're keen to inspire and enhance the holistic development of each child, committed to building strong relationships with families, and you're also a passionate educator, then you're invited to consider this exciting opportunity.
Early Years Talent connects passionate early childhood educators, teachers and childcare staff with early years opportunities across Australia and New Zealand. Our clients range from boutique exceeding rated early learning centres, and independent schools to community-managed not-for-profits.
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