Childcare Group Leader – Allara Street

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Detail information about job Childcare Group Leader – Allara Street. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Small and Highly Professional Team
• Well Resourced and Excellent Location
• Stable Leadership Team

Childcare Group Leader – Allara Street

Why work at Guardian?

• You will work with like-minded educators who truly believe in high quality teaching
• You will be rewarded and recognised through our monthly peer-nominated Educator Awards, Quarterly Award for outstanding Team performance and Educator Awards nights
• You will have professional development opportunities to build your knowledge and excel in your career:
• Reimbursement of fees if you’re studying for a commonwealth supported placement degree of Early Childhood & Education
• Paid study leave, practicum placement, support from experienced mentors
• Educator Days and masterclasses to inspire and inform you as well as opportunities to network with other educators
• Sector specific skill development opportunities such as First Aid, Child Protection Training, Practical National Quality Framework Training and more!
• There are significant opportunities for career developments across different centres, new centre openings or our Support Office.
• You can feed into Guardian’s education project – a world class, quality enhancement initiative
• Your own children will receive childcare at up to 50% of the cost
• You will have access to our complementary and confidential Employee Assistance Program to help you through any personal, family or work-related concerns
• All of this, plus an attractive pay package!

Join our growing child care family

Allara Street Early Learning Centre is a wonderful child care and early learning centre in the Canberra CBD. We provide long day care in an established, secure and comforting setting where young children are nurtured through our nursery, toddler, kinder and preschool programs by our exceedingly caring and professional educators.

Our centre has a wonderful supportive team environment, with lots of opportunity to grow professionally.

The indoor and outdoor environments have been designed to offer children complex and challenging learning opportunities, places of beauty and sustainable materials and resources.

 Your role as Group Leader is to:

• Lead and mentor educators to achieve excellence and maintain strong professional relationships with one another
• Lead and develop the team to deliver a high-quality cycle of planning, curriculum and outcomes for each child in your room
• Ensure that all documentation, including Story Park, of children’s learning is visible and accessible to families and contains high quality information to meet regulatory requirements
• Embed and comply with all regulations, including Guardian’s policies and procedures

Successful candidate will have a:

• Completed Diploma in Children's Services along with sound, practical working knowledge and implementation of the National Quality Framework and the Early Years Learning Framework;
• Experience working as a Group Leader in an Early Childhood Centre
• Current First Aid Certificate and Asthma & Anaphylaxis certificates
• Current Working with Vulnerable People Check 
• Passion and ability to inspire, motivate and maintain a positive learning culture within the centre for children, for your families and for your Educator colleagues

If you are seeking a long-term career in the early year’s sector then we would love to hear from you, as we believe we can offer you a career like no one else.

'Guardian Early Learning Group is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and their welfare will always be our first priority.  We want children to be safe, happy and empowered, and our policies, procedures and practices will ensure that child protection issues will be approached and managed in a way to ensure the best outcomes for all children.'