Are you a passionate early childhood teacher who loves inspiring young minds?
We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic and dedicated 4-Year-Old Kindergarten Teacher to join our sessional kindergarten community.
In this role, you will create meaningful learning experiences, build strong relationships with children and families, and foster a nurturing environment where every child feels valued, supported and empowered to thrive.
If you are committed to play-based learning, teamwork and making a positive difference in children's lives, we would love to hear from you.
Location: Botany Park Preschool Carrum Downs
Hours: Part Time 22.5 hours per week
Contact Hours: Monday 8.15am-2.15pm, Tuesday 12.30pm - 4.30pm and Thursday 8.15am-1.15pm. Non Contact hours to work around these contact hours.
SERVICE DELIVERY
- Design, implement, and evaluate a holistic curriculum in line with the National Quality Framework where each child’s current knowledge, ideas, culture, abilities, and interests are the foundation of a play-based learning environment.
- Promote and support inclusive practice to ensure that the service can support families from a range of cultures, backgrounds, experiences, and situations.
- Develop and maintain effective and respectful relationships with children, families, early childhood professionals, and regulatory departments, and maintain privacy and confidentiality.
- Undertake mandatory reporting to adhere to child protection guidelines and responsibilities.
- Record observations of individual children and groups, assess learning, and use for program planning.
- Operate within the requirements of the organisation’s policies and procedures, as well as funding and regulatory requirements.
- Provide a safe, healthy, and welcoming environment and ensure that children are supervised at all times.
- Provide a safe, healthy, and welcoming environment and ensure that children are supervised at all times.
- Work in accordance with the standards outlined in the Early Childhood Australia (ECA) Code of Ethics, the Victorian Institute (VIT) Code of Conduct, Child Safe Standards, and < Service Name > child safe standards.
- Embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in all aspects of the curriculum.
- Plan and implement a comprehensive transition to school.
- Assist in the school-readiness program for kindergarten children.
FINANCE
- Operate within the limits of the service budget allocation and financial policies and procedures of the organisation.
- Purchase resources and equipment in accordance the organisation policy processes.
PERSONAL
- Respect and work collaboratively with culturally and linguistically diverse children, families, and colleagues, and children who identify with the LGBTQIA+ community.
- Support the implementation of an anti-bias approach, including social justice approaches.
- Uphold an inclusive and welcoming learning environment that recognises and values the diverse backgrounds of all children, families, and the local community.
- Be responsible for the day-to-day supervision of employees performing duties related to the group/s for which the position is directly responsible.
- Hold or attend regular staff meetings, within paid time, to facilitate effective communication, internal staff development, and discussion on management and programming for the service. The frequency of staff meetings will be determined by the approved provider, following consultation with the staff.
- Provide leadership while working as a member of a cooperative team and encourage educators who are involved in the educational program to contribute to its planning and implementation.
- Share housekeeping tasks of preparation, pack up, hygiene, and safety related to the program with other staff.
- Work cooperatively with the approved provider and all staff to ensure the service operates in a safe work environment and that employees adhere to all service OHS procedure.
- Participate in an annual performance review and development process.
PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Demonstrate professionalism and ethical conduct in interactions with children, families, and colleagues.
- Uphold ethical standards.
- Exercise due care, skill, and judgement and act in accordance with applicable professional ethics, principles, legislation, and standards.
- Keep across current issues relating to the provision of children’s services and liaise with relevant early childhood services and other professional services and organisations within the community.
- Engage in relevant training and development activities, attend professional networks and conferences, and keep up to date with research and best practices in the field.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS / WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Capacity to undertake all the physical requirements of working within an early childhood and early education setting, including, but not limited to, lifting loads of up to 20 kg, bending, kneeling, pushing, pulling, squatting, stretching arms, trunk twisting, alternating between standing and sitting for a duration of time.
- Set up and pack away indoor and outdoor play environments, which requires moving equipment, raking the sandpit and soft fall areas, and removing articles from the sandpit and play area.
- Engage and work with children at child level, which requires kneeling and sitting on the floor.
- Supervise and support learning experiences, which requires moving with ease around the environment.
- Supporting children with diverse needs, including the ability to assist with physical care tasks such as lifting.
- Nappy change and toilet tasks, which requires lifting children (to and from change table).
- Carry a child where age appropriate or in an emergency.
- Perform appropriate First Aid, as required, on children.
- Maintain a safe and clean environment which may require vacuuming/sweeping/mopping floors for up to 10 minutes at a time, rinsing of mop and carrying mop bucket with 5 cm water, cleaning sinks, cleaning children’s sinks 1 m high, cleaning children’s toilets, wiping of bench tops and children’s tables and chairs, and general tidying.
REPORTING
- Support the approved provider as manager of the organisation, including the provision of relevant information to ensure the service meets all regulatory and funding requirements.
- Provide monthly written reports to the committee updating the months educational program and any issues relating to the service.
- Attend and contribute to regular staff meetings as required.
- Provide necessary information, within agreed timelines, for the completion of all relevant program-related reports and data collections, as required by the approved provider.
- Report to the approved provider on urgent and ongoing maintenance at the service.
- Report to the approved provider on equipment and materials needed and purchase of approved supplies.
- Undertake other functions as delegated by the approved provider.
- Attend yearly Open Day and AGM.
Qualifications
- Be registered with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) and continue to renew/maintain the registration during the course of employment.
- Current child protection training (Mandatory Reporting) and knowledge.
- National Child Safety Training.
- Current Victorian driver’s license.
- Hold a current ACECQA compliant First Aid Certificate, including Resuscitation, Asthma Management, and Anaphylaxis.
Industrial Agreement/Award
Victorian Early Childhood Teachers and Educators Agreement 2020 (VECTEA)
Pay: $35.00 – $45.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
