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We invite you to join Oaklands
The centre is led by an experienced director and has approximately 6 full-time staff. Our staff enjoy long careers at Oaklands and find the culture of our centre to be warm, friendly, vibrant and inclusive. Staff testify this is one of the main reasons they enjoy working here, as well as the fact that our centre is relatively boutique, enabling everyone in the community to know one another. Many families have chosen to send all of their children to Oaklands over time.
The range of benefits offered to Oaklands staff include:
- Competitive wages, salaries and superannuation benefits
- 4 weeks annual leave
- Professional Development (PD), learning and growth including paid PD trips interstate
- Supportive peer coaching and annual review process
- Family-friendly provisions including 6 weeks of paid maternity leave after 2 years of continuous service and 10 days of personal/carer’s leave
- Opportunities to take on additional responsibilities for experience and shadowing
- Convenient car parking
- Café located opposite (at Churchie)
- Health care on site with annual flu vaccinations
- Staff community service opportunities
- Onsite after school hours care
Oaklands is always open to hearing from dedicated and enthusiastic educators interested in joining our team. If you would like to work for a high-quality and supportive organisation, please fill out the form.
You don’t need a lot of experience as we will train you. You will need a qualification (minimum Cert 3 in Early Learning) and a desire to bring out the best in children through nurturing guidance, support and care.
With any available position at Oaklands, we look to employ candidates who will work well within the dedicated team that already exists at Oaklands and who will contribute to creating a happy and safe environment for the children and families who attend our service.
A career in early learning education is rewarding and makes a difference in young children’s lives.
Oaklands Child Care Centre is located on Oaklands Parade in East Brisbane. It is a fully approved provider of childcare, kindergarten and long day care and is owned and operated by Anglican Church Grammar School. As an Anglican early learning centre, we operate under the ethos of the Anglican Church and delivery a faith-based early learning philosophy.
Oaklands is a well-established early learning centre with 90 places and a reputation for delivering outstanding early learning programs. It has a leafy outlook on a quiet street located close to the Brisbane CBD, with bus stops nearby on Vulture Street East and within walking distance of the Coorparoo train station.
Our employees are part of a tight-knit team that shares in the administration and running of the centre collaboratively. The leadership and culture of our centre are very open and transparent and, as such, many of our employees have been with us for a long time.
Each member of our Oaklands community plays an important role in the lives of the children in our care. We are committed to providing a safe, nurturing and inclusive environment where children have the opportunity to play, discover and learn. We aim to recruit staff who share in this philosophy and who are passionate about early learning.
“We’re a unique community and are really passionate about the children we look after and strive to do what’s best for them. We provide a safe, nurturing centre where your child will be known by all the educators. We provide an environment that stimulates and educates in an age-appropriate way.”
Melanie Crook, Early Childhood Teacher, Oaklands
Oaklands offers a range of employee benefits including a family-friendly work environment and the opportunity to be supported by likeminded professionals.