Lead Educator

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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 childrens lives. Its what weve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, weve built a trusted reputation as Queenslands 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 childs life journey for the time they spend with us and long after they leave.  But, so much of what we do depends on you.

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

  • Get a better deal with a wage rate of $31-$35 per hour plus salary sacrificing options.
  • 40 hours per week with monthly RDO
  • 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 with childcare discounts up to 75% for eligible employees with children enrolled at a C&K Branch Centre.
  • Fully funded Blue Card, Police Check, First Aid, CPR, and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
  • Enjoy a career with a built-in Christmas holiday break, giving you time to recharge.
  • Be rewarded for supporting the growth of our teams with a $ referral bonus for referring a successful candidate to a C&K vacancy.
  • Access a nationally recognised qualification in the high-demand field of early childhood education and care with subsidised training for eligible students through the C&K College.
  • Scholarships of up to $ for eligible Educators who are working towards their Diploma qualification under the Qualifications Pathways Program (QPP).
  • Are you working towards your Early Childhood Teaching qualifications? Eligible students can access up to $35,000 in scholarship subsidies under the Qualifications Pathways Program (QPP) to provide you with the support and skills to progress your early childhood career.

Help shape the future of children in our care

As one of our highly valued Lead Educators, youll support and guide childrens learning and development, so they become curious, capable and confident lifelong learners.

At C&K QUT Kelvin Grove Community Childcare Centre, we welcome children from 6 weeks of age to 5 years old and provide care and early learning five days a week.

As a home away from home, our environment provides feelings of being safe, secure and supported while in the care of our qualified educators. At C&K we support our team to nurture play-based learning, develop caring relationships with children and our families, and foster a lifelong love of learning with every child in our care.

Using your skills, ideas and passion for education, youll 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.

What youll bring

Whether youre an experienced early childhood professional, newly graduated or just commencing your studies, if youre energetic, fun and committed to guiding childrens early learning and development, well set you up for success!

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

  • A minimum of a Diploma 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.

Kelvin Grove, QLD

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