This is your opportunity to help build a kindergarten program from the beginning.
At Journey Early Learning Lucknow, you won't be stepping into someone else's established program.
You'll have the opportunity to bring your professional knowledge, ideas and teaching practice into a brand-new workplace and help shape what kindergarten looks like from day one.
And you'll have an Educational Leader, Centre Leadership Team and broader Journey professional network around you.
Competitive remuneration + applicable ECEC Worker Retention Payment
Additional Teacher Leave, in accordance with Journey's applicable arrangements
Journey Childcare Discount, subject to eligibility and applicable terms
Dedicated professional development through Journey Academy
ECT mentoring and professional support
Support for provisionally registered teachers progressing through the VIT inquiry process
A dedicated Educational Leader working alongside you
Genuine career and leadership development opportunities
Build the kindergarten program you want to teach in.
Journey Early Learning Lucknow is a brand-new88-place, five-room centreopening inNovember ****.
As an Early Childhood Teacher within the founding team, you'll help establish a kindergarten program that reflects the children, families and community around you.
You'll have the opportunity to create a learning environment where children's voice, agency, curiosity and ideas genuinely influence the curriculum.
This is about more than delivering an existing program.
It's an opportunity to help build one.
Teach with a team around you.
As an Early Childhood Teacher, you'll:
Design and deliver meaningful kindergarten learning experiences
Observe, assess and extend children's learning
Develop a responsive program informed by children's strengths, interests and ideas
Create opportunities that support children's voice, autonomy and agency
Build strong and respectful partnerships with families
Support children's transition to school




Work collaboratively with educators across the centre
Contribute professional knowledge to reflection and continuous improvement
Partner closely with your Educational Leader and Centre Manager
Create a safe, inclusive and engaging environment for every child
Supported to grow your teaching practice.
At Journey, you won't be expected to develop your teaching practice in isolation.
Your Educational Leader will work alongside you, supported by your Centre Manager, Centre Quality Manager and Journey's broader professional ecosystem.
You'll also have access to Journey's ECT mentoring approach, including coaching, professional feedback and support for provisionally registered teachers progressing through the VIT inquiry process.
Through Journey Academy and our broader learning and development opportunities, you'll have continued opportunities to grow your practice and career.
What you'll bring
You will ideally hold:
An ACECQA-approved Early Childhood Teaching qualification
Current VIT registration, or eligibility to obtain registration
Strong knowledge of the EYLF and National Quality Standard
An understanding of contemporary early childhood pedagogy
Confidence designing, implementing and evaluating kindergarten programs
Strong communication and family-partnership skills
A collaborative approach to working with educators and leaders
A commitment to inclusive practice and children's agency
A genuine commitment to child safety and safeguarding
Considering a move to East Gippsland?
You don't need to already live in Lucknow or Bairnsdale to start a conversation with us.




We welcome Early Childhood Teachers from Melbourne, regional Victoria and interstate who may be considering a move to East Gippsland.
If the opportunity sounds right but the location requires a move, we'd still encourage you to have a conversation with us about what may be possible.
Why Journey?
At Journey, we recognise the professional role Early Childhood Teachers play in shaping children's learning and preparing them for the transition to school.
You'll have access to professional mentoring, Journey Academy, a dedicated Educational Leader and the broader specialist ecosystem around our centres.
For Lucknow, you'll also have the opportunity to establish something from the beginning.
Your kindergarten program.
Your teaching practice.
A brand-new centre around you.
Child safety at Journey
Journey Early Learning is committed to being aChild Safe Organisationand to creating environments where every child is safe, supported, respected and heard.
As a Victorian Early Childhood Employer, we expect all employees to actively uphold theVictorian Child Safe Standards, applicable child protection obligations and Journey's safeguarding requirements.
As an Early Childhood Teacher, you'll play an important role in creating learning environments where children's rights, voice, safety and wellbeing are reflected in everyday practice.
Journey's See, Act, Tell Safeguarding framework supports our teams to recognise concerns, respond appropriately and speak up when something does not feel right.
All appointments are subject to Journey's pre-employment screening and child safety requirements, including the relevant Working with Children Check, VIT registration and any other checks, qualifications or clearances required for the role.
Journey Early Learning is a Child Safe Organisation and is committed to the safety, wellbeing and protection of all children in our care.
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📌 Early Childhood Teacher - Lucknow (Orange)
🏢 Journey Early Learning
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