Location: 326 High St, Geelong VIC 3216
Rate: $31.84 – $36.41 per hour (depending on experience and qualifications)
Busy Bees is a leading global, early learning provider, offering high-quality education in nurturing, purpose-built centres where educators are supported to grow, lead and make a real difference in children’s lives, with over 130 centres across Australia and around 3,000 employees.
Bee Safe: Child safety is at the heart of everything we do and is embedded in our people, places and processes. Help us give every child the Best Start in Life.
We’re seeking a dedicated Educator to play an important role supporting our centre team to help create a nurturing, engaging environment where children feel safe, supported, and inspired to learn.
What you’ll do
Supporting the implementation of engaging play-based learning experiences aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF).
Assisting in providing a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all children.
Building positive relationships with children, families, and team members.
Supporting daily routines, activities, and supervision of children.
Contributing to maintaining high standards aligned with the National Quality Standards (NQS).
What you’ll bring
A genuine commitment to child safety and wellbeing & alignment to our Busy Bee values.
Certificate III or Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care (or working towards).
Current First Aid, CPR, Asthma and Anaphylaxis certifications (or willingness to obtain) and WWCC.
Experience within Australia working as an Educator within the ECEC industry.
Why Busy Bees?
Because we offer the B.E.E.S. advantage:
Better pay. Everyday balance. Education for growth. Support you can rely on.
We live by our values of Care, Quality, Service, and Value to make a real impact on child safety and quality.
12.5% above-award pay, Retention Payments & everyday extras; uniform and laundry allowances included, so your take-home pay stays yours.
Family-friendly benefits; 50% childcare gap-fee discounts for permanent staff, because your family should benefit too.
Paid learning & development; First Aid, CPR & mandatory training covered, ongoing professional development, and access to our Busy Bees learning platform and ACCCO RTO pathways.
Supportive leaders & inclusive teams; hands-on leadership, strong tenure and a culture built on trust, respect and collaboration.
Career pathways that grow with you; opportunities & training to progress from Educator to leadership, management and area roles.
Wellbeing support that goes beyond work; free, confidential EAP access for you and your immediate family, when you need it most.
Employment is conditional on satisfactory, rigorous pre-employment checks (including WWCC, ID, Qualifications, Gecko Training, Work Rights & References) and child safety training, reflecting our strong commitment to safeguarding, equity, diversity and inclusion.
We are proud to be a child safe organisation, putting child safety at the heart of everything we do through our Triple Layer Child Safety Framework: trusted, trained and caring people, safe, supervised and supportive environments, and clear, consistent and transparent processes.
Why Work for Busy Bees?
If you’re passionate about early learning, Busy Bees is the place to be. Although we are part of a global organisation, our company was founded by three families looking for better, more enriching childcare. Three decades later, we still keep the same values at heart.
We know that we couldn’t do what we do without the important people in our teams. We invest in our people and work with them to build career pathways that inspire.
