Early Childhood Teacher

At Guardian, childcare is more than a job…

Are you passionate about supporting young children to discover, explore, and learn as they grow into themselves through quality and innovative education programs? Have you worked hard to convert your passion into professional skills and want to make a meaningful contribution to the lives of young children? Then, Guardian Gawleris where you can aspire to grow and excel.

Being an Early Childhood Teacherat Guardian means having a voice and the opportunity to make decisions and develop a learning program that suits the families and their children in your community. You’ll also have a great place to work, incredible colleagues, and benefits that include:

• Lead your ongoing professional development and learning through exceptional coaching, conferences, mentoring, and career advancement opportunities.
• Use your professional skills and passion for education to influence and shape our innovative programs that focus on learning through exploration, discovery, and play.
• Collaborate with other professional Educators and Teachers through workshops and meetings to share best practice and learn from each other.
• High-quality, well-resourced environments for children and Teachers
• Enjoy a competitive salary and financial benefits, including attractive remuneration packages, generous childcare discounts, recognition and rewards, and an employee referral program.
• WHEREFIT – 2,000 discounted corporate offers at up to 50% off for gyms, studios, activewear, healthy meals, beauty and more…
• GuardianDegree program – We can support you by offering paid study, flexible work hours, guardian mentors and reimbursement of course fees, because we want to see you succeed.(Terms & conditions apply)
• Paid first aid courses and renewals

The Centre
At our Guardian Gawler childcare centre in Willaston, the care and education of each child is our top priority. Children aged six weeks to six years will be supported to be creative, bold and imaginative in their learning. We are ideally located for families in surrounding suburbs including Gawler, Willaston, Buchfelde and Hewett.

At our new Gawler long day care centre, each child will have a supportive environment to explore their world safely. They create learning experiences where children will be encouraged to develop their natural curiosity and love of learning.

The Opportunity for the ECT role:
As an ECT, you will be part of a passionate team where you will enjoy:

• Contributing to a professional Team to create a safe and secure environment where children are supported to be brave, curious, and imaginative in their learning.
• Building lasting and meaningful relationships with families, so they feel informed and sure their children are receiving the best education and care in the community.
• Supporting Educators to deliver the best in contemporary early childhood thinking and practice.
• Contributing to making your Centre an example of why Guardian is driven by its mindsets of being brave, positive, thoughtful, and professional in all aspects of what we do.
• The opportunity to join Leadership Councils where you can develop leadership skills, collaborate with other leaders, think innovatively, drive change, and participate in decision-making.

To be considered as an ECT, you will have:

• Tertiary Qualifications (Bachelors\’ Degree or Masters\’) in Early Childhood. Education as approved by ACECQA.
• Current Teacher’s Accreditation/ Registration (SA state)
• 3+ years of experience as a Teacher.
• Proven knowledge of the National Quality Framework
• Valid Working with Children’s Check (WWCC for SA state)

Apply now
Be inspired, be inspiring, and introduce us to the Teacheror Educator in you. Apply nowto join Guardian Childcare & Education!

Referrals
We offer referrals for Guardian employees so join us and bring a friend to refer and earn. For more details, visit: guardian.edu.au/careers/refer-your-friends

Guardian Childcare & Education values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We are committed to providing a workplace where every person is valued, respected, and supported to progress.
We are also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.
The safety and wellbeing of children will always be our top priority, Guardian Childcare & Education has a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse or harm. #J-18808-Ljbffr