Lead Educator

At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. As a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Help Shape Futures at C&K Yuingi Community Childcare Centre, located in Oxley.

As one of our highly valued Lead Educators at C&K Yuingi Community Childcare Centre, you’ll work alongside your team to create a safe, supportive and engaging play-based learning environment for children, their families and our wider community. The C&K Yuingi team are looking forward to welcoming an Educator with their own unique skills and practices to build on the wonderful experiences they are creating for the Oxley community.

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

• 9-day fortnight = work/life balance
• Consistent fortnightly RDO with more time for life outside of work.
• Competitive pay + super: Earn up to $41.35 per hour + superannuation.
• Save on childcare costs: Receive up to 75% off gap fees at C&K childcare centres.
• Feel supported inside and outside of work: Access free wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program, including counselling, financial coaching, nutrition support, and specialist services.
• Grow your career with C&K: Access scholarships of up to $6,000 and ongoing study support through the Qualifications Pathway Program.
• Join a team that feels like family: Work in a welcoming, values-driven centre where collaboration and support come first.
• Make a meaningful impact every day: Help shape the early learning journeys of children in a nurturing, play-based environment.

What you’ll bring

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success! We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• Hold a Cert III in Early Childhood Education and Care (or studying towards).
• First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Child Safety Training Certificate.
• 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 welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and/or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.