At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 116 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Help Shape Futures at C&K

Whether you're Cert III, Diploma, or ECT qualified, if you're passionate about play, relationships, and high quality early learning, we want to meet you!

As one of our highly valued Educators at C&K, you’ll help create a safe, supportive and play-based learning environment for children, families and the community. In this vital role, you’ll cover sick days, leave and breaks, using your skills and passion to shape brighter futures.

• Flexible hours and days, you control your availability!
• As an educator earn $35.77 per hour + superannuation!
• As a qualified Early Childhood Teacher, earn $62.41 per hour + superannuation!
• Develop your skills and make an impact by working with caring teams across our Mackay and surrounds centres

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well, and grow.

• Access subsidised early childhood training through our nationally recognised C&K College
• Access to scholarships of up to $3000 under the Qualifications Pathway Program.
• Plus, so much more.

What you’ll bring:

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• Hold, or a willingness to commence studying, either a certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care, Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care or Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood).
• First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• A Police Check current within three months (or willingness to obtain one).

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.

Mackay, QLD