Centre Director | Early Childhood Teacher | Full-Time | Austral
Experienced Centre Director with a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education required for this purpose-built centre in Austral. Amazing Salary, ASAP Start
Summary about this job
Childcare & Outside School Hours Care
Company: Sunshine Recruitment
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full Time
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Phone: +61-2-3157-2317
Fax: +61-2-3155-8717
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Detail information about job Centre Director | Early Childhood Teacher | Full-Time | Austral. Terms and conditions vacancy
The Centre
A purpose-built, spacious and modern centre that has been in operation for 4 years.
The centre is located on the same site as a K-12 school and as a result has a strong tie and connection to the wider school community.
They cater to 59 children aged 2 to 5 years of age.
With a focus on the cultural inclusivity of their students and embedding this into their everyday program and school readiness.
The owners have recently acquired the centre and believe that to have a high-quality service, that; time, resources and support must be provided to Educators and as such offer the opportunity for non-contact programming and documentation time, professional development and staff meetings.
The centre has an established and connected team of Educators, onsite cook, administration and accounts support.
The centre operates between 7:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday.
The Position
This centre is looking for a strong leader to take on the role as Centre Director, the candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, excellent management skills and a strong pedagogical background.
The role will initially be a partial Teaching role until occupancy has increased and will then be predominantly a Non-Teaching role.
Offering a unique opportunity for complete autonomy in the service, this is a chance to develop and nurture the service culture and team with a real ability to effect positive change.
Due to this role being such a unique opportunity and the owners having a strong focus on Quality the role is best suited to an experienced Director who has ideally had experience in the opening of a new centre.
Your duties & responsibilities will be:
- Building partnerships within the community
- Leading a team of highly qualified educators
- Cultural sensitivity and inclusion in your approach and actions
- Creating trusting and long lasting relationships with parents and families
- Assist Educators and be accessible and understanding of their needs
- Provide opportunities for Professional Development for staff including one-on-one support and training
- Completing Monthly management & financial reports
- Ensure the compliance and the pedagogy of the centre is to an Exceeding level
- Manage the centre effectively by ensuring educators demonstrate the highest level of professionalism, allocating resources, ensuring safe caring learning environment for the children and liaising effectively with educators and parents
- Lead a program that contributes to each child's interests, emotional and social wellbeing
- Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of children attending the centre
- Improve educational and developmental outcomes for children attending the centre
- Promote community awareness and engagement
- Lead and document monthly team meetings
- Develop and maintain policies and procedures of the centre In line with changing legislation
- Generous Salary Package on offer
- Committed and supportive owners
- Established and connected community
- Ability to have your child in care at the centre
- Just to name a few !!!!!!
- Must hold a COMPLETED Bachelor or Masters of Early Childhood Education. (Overseas qualifications must have been assessed by ACECQA)
- MINIMUM of 2yrs previous Centre Director experience.
- Current BOSTES/NESA registration.
- Hold a PAID NSW Working With Children's Check.
- Holds a current First Aid, CPR, Asthma and Anaphylaxis Certificate.
- Have strong working knowledge of the Early Years Learning Framework.
- Excellent customer service and partnership building skills
- Strong mentoring and team leadership skills
- Possess excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Be a motivated and flexible team player.
- Sponsorship is NOT available for the ideal candidate
Should you wish to find out more about this fantastic role please hit apply and send through your CV today.
Otherwise please feel free to
Call Sunshine Recruitment on 02 9380 2425.