Early Childhood Teacher

Seedlings & Co; Ipswich City; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Seedlings & Co in Queensland is seeking an Early Childhood Teacher to co-lead our kindergarten room with another ECT. You will share planning, thinking and celebrate wins to ensure every child receives the best of both of you.

The role invites experienced educators who embrace child-led projects, nature play and unhurried learning. You will document growth, connect with families and support children with diverse needs in a bush-kindy inspired environment.

Qualifications

• ACECQA-approved ECT qualification and QCT registration (or eligibility).
• Three or more years' post-graduate experience as an ECT.
• Love of child-led projects and ability to follow children's curiosity.
• Lived understanding of nature play: risk, mess, awe and unhurried learning.
• Generosity as a co-teacher: you share ideas, credit and the hard days.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead the kindergarten room with another ECT.
• Share planning and thinking with your co-teacher.
• Support child-led projects and follow children's curiosity.
• Provide rich documentation and genuine connection with families.
• Facilitate nature play, risk, mess and unhurried learning.
• Support children with additional needs.
• Maintain calm and steady presence when the day goes sideways.

Job description

We're looking for an Early Childhood Teacher to co-lead our kindergarten room alongside another ECT. You'll share the planning, the thinking and the wins. Two strong teachers, backing each other, so every child gets the best of both of you.

Key responsibilities

• Co-lead the kindergarten room with another ECT
• Share planning and thinking with your co-teacher
• Support child-led projects and follow children's curiosity
• Provide rich documentation and genuine connection with families
• Facilitate nature play, risk, mess and unhurried learning
• Support children with additional needs
• Maintain calm and steady presence when the day goes sideways

About you

• Three or more years' post-graduate experience as an ECT
• ACECQA-approved ECT qualification and QCT registration (or eligibility)
• Lived understanding of nature play: risk, mess, awe and unhurried learning
• Love of child-led projects and ability to follow children's curiosity
• Strong documentation skills and warm, genuine connection with families
• Bush kindy experience, or a real hunger to build it
• Generosity as a co-teacher: you share ideas, credit and the hard days
• Ability to read a room and read a child, and trust the process

About us

Seedlings & Co. is a family-owned, nature-based group across Queensland. We believe children learn best in relationship: with each other, with their educators and with the natural world. Indoors flows to outdoors and back again, because learning doesn't have walls. Our children climb, dig, build with real tools and spend real time in bush kindy. Our practice draws on Finnish and Danish pedagogy, and we take play, risk and learning seriously. This is a learning community that mentors, stretches and grows its people on purpose.