Role: Early Childhood Teacher
Location: Woree QLD 4879, home of the Yirrganydji People
Centre: Goodstart Woree Toogood Road
Employment Type: Full Time 38 hours per week
Pay: $45.45 - $68.53 per hour + Superannuation + Benefits
Are you ready to bring your knowledge and creativity to a place where you’ll be truly valued? Do you dream of shaping pedagogy and practice in your classroom? Are you passionate about crafting a curriculum that resonates with children’s needs, interests, and ideas? If so, we'd love to explore the amazing opportunities we have just for you.
As an Early Childhood Teacher at Goodstart, you'll ignite a love of learning in children, guiding their development with purposeful and energetic teaching practices. You'll build strong, meaningful relationships with families, ensuring every child feels a profound sense of belonging and is supported to thrive. Your passion for teaching will shine through as you mentor and inspire educational practices in your room, collaborating with our centre leadership team to develop, review, and implement high-quality early learning programs, achieving outstanding outcomes for our children.
Join us at Goodstart, where your passion and creativity will transform young lives and enrich your teaching career.
About Goodstart Woree Toogood Road:
At our intimate, 75 place centre, we provide a child-initiated learning environment that supports all children's developmental goals. Our holistic, play-based curriculum is founded on collaboration between families and Educators and our key Educator-child relationships reflect the Reggio Emilia approach, fostering security and trust.
We promote children's rights and ensure their voices are heard in an environment that is literature-rich, sustainable, inviting, enriching, and engaging. Our centre is highly diverse, with families from Indian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Philippine, Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal, and Spanish backgrounds.
Goodstart Woree Toogood Road has developed strong community connections through family feedback, allied health professionals, and schools, teaching environmental respect through authentic local knowledge of land and country. Together, we have created a family-cultured centre where Educators, children, and families celebrate diversity. We foster a family-oriented culture where parents feel comfortable leaving their children with us and strive to give children the best start in life, encouraging them to share their cultures and identities and to become the best versions of themselves.
What Goodstart can offer you:
You’ll need:
If you have prior experience as a Teacher in a school or early learning setting, or if you are new to the profession and embarking on your first role, we invite you to connect with us! Our team welcomes teachers from all backgrounds and experiences.
How to apply
Click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your application.
We review applications as they are submitted. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible for your best chance to progress to the next stage of the process.
Have a question? Contact Shelby Mujkanovic from our Talent Acquisition Team on (07) 3918 2035 or via emailsbridgeman@goodstart.org.au
At Goodstart we are deeply committed to Reconciliation and encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to apply. For further information and support email deadlycareers@goodstart.org.au
Supporting our people and protecting our children
We’re an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We’re also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.
Safety is our priority and we will take any action necessary to ensure that all children can feel safe and be safe, and are safeguarded from abuse, neglect and harm. As a Child Safe Organisation, all of our candidates must have or obtain a valid working with children check.
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Posting Notes: WOREE, CAIRNS || QLD || Australia (AU) || | SF:LI || Bachelor (ECT) 4yr || Full-Time
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.
