Diploma Qualified Early Childhood Educator

Victorian Government; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Wellness program

Public transport access

Mentoring

5 weeks annual leave

Job summary

Austin Health’s Austin Child Care Centre seeks an Early Childhood Educator to support educators in delivering engaging learning experiences for preschool children. You will help plan, implement, and assess programs that reflect EYLF, VEYLDF and NQF requirements, while fostering active participation and family partnerships.

You will contribute to a welcoming, safe environment and work closely with colleagues to maintain high-quality care and education across the service.

Qualifications

• Diploma of Early Childhood Education required.
• Experience planning and delivering programs aligned with EYLF/VEYLDF, NQF.
• Demonstrated awareness of diversity and how it impacts children and families.
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support the team to develop a fun, educational program for children.
• Develop and maintain respectful, collaborative relationships with children and families.
• Document children’s learning in line with the Centre philosophy and learning outcomes.
• Ensure practices align with NQS and service policies.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Team collaboration

Customer focus

Education

Diploma of Early Childhood Education

Job description

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• Make an impact supporting our staff and their families at the Austin Child Care Centre
• Full time fixed term (12 months parental leave cover), working 40 hours per week.
• Heidelberg location, with multiple public transport options

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Child Care Centre

Located in a renovated brick gatekeeper’s lodge built in 1871 on the grounds of the Austin Hospital, the Austin Child Care Centre is a non-profit centre providing child care services to support our wonderful healthcare workers. We are registered for 70 EFT places, caring for preschool children from 4 months to school entry age. We have nature-based play spaces designed to support healthy growth and development, and our children are involved in many of the hospitals’ events, including commemorative services and cultural days, as well as creating many works of art displayed around the hospital.

The centre offers a friendly and supportive environment, where we genuinely enjoy working together. Our diverse team has low turnover and high longevity of tenure. We enjoy sharing our cultures with each other, the children and their families, and we fully support a diverse environment.

The Child Care Centre believes all children have the right to be safe at all times and commits to protect children from all forms of physical and emotional violence, injury or abuse, neglect, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse. The Austin Child Care Centre has a zero tolerance to any forms of child abuse.

About the role

As an Early Childhood Educator, you will support the team/room educators to develop a fun, educational and engaging program for our children. You’ll also support the Centre in evaluating the quality of the program to ensure it is aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) and the National Quality Framework (NQF).

A regular day will see you:

• Actively support every child to participate in the program and ensure that it promotes children’s agency, choices and influence.
• Develop and maintain respectful, supportive, collaborative and responsive relationships with children and their families.
• Deliver effective and valuable documentation of children’s learning in accordance with the Centre philosophy and the Learning Outcomes (EYLF and VEYLDF).
• Ensure all practices are in accordance with the NQS and reflect the philosophy, policies and procedures of the service.

About you

As an early childhood educator, you will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You’ll bring energy and drive to your work, and have a keen interest in developing your skillset.

You will be someone who is highly motivated and energetic and loves to care for and nurture young children. You’ll enjoy collaborating with your team and providing a welcoming, safe environment.

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

• Diploma of Early Childhood Education
• Experience in planning, implementing, assessing and reviewing a high quality and diverse educational program based on appropriate curriculum frameworks and with reference to the NQS,
• A demonstrated awareness of social, economic and cultural diversity and its impact on children and their families.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills at all levels.
• A passion for working with children and building respectful, positive and trusted relationships with families.

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Base salary + over award allowance + greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.
• Five weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time), plus purchased leave options

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards.If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Melinda Cicitta, Acting Director, Austin Child Care Centre on [e-mail].

Applications close Sunday 25 October 2026 at 11.59pm