Centre Director – Lapstone Preschool
Full-time or Part-time negotiable | Lapstone, NSW
Salary: $90,000–$120,000 (FTE incl Super) + Salary Packaging + Benefits
Lead with purpose in a centre where every child is
celebrated.
About Connect Children and Families
At Connect, we walk alongside families to support their children’s learning, wellbeing and
safety. As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re deeply rooted in the Blue Mountains, Lithgow, Hawkesbury and Western Sydney communities — working across early education, family support, and community services.
Our values guide everything we do: Tune In. Connect. Be Kind. Walk Together. Celebrate Every Child.
About Lapstone Preschool
Lapstone Preschool is a 36-place service set in beautiful bushland at the foot of the Mountains. For over 50 years, we’ve provided high-quality early education for children aged 3–6, offering rich
learning environments, a spacious classroom and our well-loved Bush Kinder Base Camp.
About the Role
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Centre Director to lead Lapstone Preschool As both Centre Director and Nominated Supervisor, you’ll play a key role in ensuring high-quality early learning and care, supporting a positive team culture, and building strong relationships with children, families, staff, and the local community.
You’ll lead day-to-day operations while ensuring alignment with the National Quality Framework, child protection standards, and Connect’s values-driven approach.
Key Responsibilities
What You’ll Bring
Essential Requirements:
Why Work with Connect?
At Connect, you’ll be welcomed into a strong, collaborative, and supportive team who share
a vision of safe and connected communities where children and families thrive
We offer:
Connect is a ChildSafe organisation and an equal opportunity employer We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from diverse backgrounds, abilities, and identities.
If you’re a committed early childhood leader who wants to make a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Please APPLY and forward your CV and a cover letter outlining your experience.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
