Explorers Early Learning Hiring for Lead Educator | Explorers Early Learning | Tarneit Job at Tarneit Full Time

• We invest in our people with ongoing professional development
• Career development – 2/3 of our leadership team promoted from within!
• Performance-based above-award incentives

About us:
Explorers Early Learning is proud to not only be Australia owned, but locally operated by a Melbourne family.

We value our teams:
We focus on supporting our educators in their own careers to grow and develop as early years practitioners. We offer professional development training and staff training across our centres. We also run fantastic workshops run by our Operations team and many other wonderful experiences to help build your future with us at Explorers.

Our Tarneit Centre:
Our centre is licensed to 140 children across 2 floors with 8 rooms. We are based within an estate and there is ample parking on site. Like all our Explorers centres, we provide meaningful experiences for the children. Our indoor / outdoor environment encourages children to explore their inherent connection to nature, including dirt, sand and water. We are very excited to continue to welcome families and educators and open this wonderful new room to our families.

The Role:
We would love to welcome a passionate lead educator for our 2-3yr old room. Lead, support, mentor and work with a wonderful team.

At Explorers we are inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach and so an understanding of this practice is essential.

Who we would like to welcome to our team:

• Bubbly with a positive attitude
• Passionate about providing quality learning environments for children
• Committed and professional
• Have a strong understanding of the EYLF and NQS
• Experience managing a team
• Can model best practise
• Be supporting and able to mentor and guide your and work closely with the management team

Benefits:

• Paid professional development
• Childcare reimbursement for children attending the service
• We value our Educators and feel it is important to celebrate your success. We hold various annual events.

Key requirements:

• An approved early learning qualification- Diploma of Children’s Services.
• First Aid, Asthma and Anaphylaxis training
• Working with children check
• Working rights- Visa / Passport
• Photo ID

We nurture our employee’s careers! We are passionate about building our people’s skills and experience and support the progression of our employee’s careers within our organisation.

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity, we would love to hear from you