Job Description
Little Wishes Early Learning Centre Chermside – Chermside QLD
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Diploma Qualified Lead Educator – Toddler Room
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Little Wishes Early Learning Centre – Chermside
n Permanent | 5 days or minimum 4 days per week
n Up to $42 per hour + Superannuation
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Experienced Lead Educator
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You know you're good at what you do — so we want to know you.
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We're looking for an experienced Diploma qualified Lead Educator who takes genuine pride in their practice, leads with purpose and is ready to take ownership of our Toddler Room.
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If you're the Lead Educator who can confidently lead a team, build meaningful relationships with children and families, create an engaging child-led program and consistently hold yourself and your team to a high professional standard — we want you at Little Wishes Chermside.
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This isn't simply a position where you'll be responsible for a room.
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It's an opportunity to lead, influence and make a lasting difference.
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Your opportunity to lead
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As our Toddler Room Lead Educator, you'll take ownership of the room's educational program while supporting and developing the educators around you.
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You'll have the autonomy to:
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Lead and inspire your room team.
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Develop and implement an engaging, child-led educational program.
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Guide programming, documentation and critical reflection.
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Follow children's interests and develop meaningful learning projects.
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Build strong, genuine relationships with children and families.
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Create intentional learning environments that promote curiosity and agency.
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Mentor educators and contribute to their professional growth.
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Work collaboratively with the wider leadership team to maintain high-quality practice.
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You'll lead the room — but you won't lead alone.
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Our leadership structure has been intentionally designed to give educators the support, guidance and leadership they need to succeed.
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Why stand with Little Wishes?
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Little Wishes Chermside is an Exceeding-rated,



family-owned early learning service committed to exceptional outcomes for children — and an exceptional working environment for educators.
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At Little Wishes, achieving an Exceeding National Quality Standard rating wasn't the finish line.
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It was the beginning of something bigger.
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As expectations around educational quality, child safety and compliance continue to grow, we've invested in a leadership model rarely seen in early childhood education: our Dual Director Leadership Model.
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Rather than asking one Centre Director to juggle everything, we've invested in two experienced leaders, each specialising in what they do best.
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Our Director of Operations leads compliance, systems, HR, health and safety and operational excellence.
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Our Director of Pedagogy is dedicated to curriculum, mentoring, coaching, educational leadership and supporting educators to continuously strengthen their practice.
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It's a significant investment.
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But we believe educators deserve leaders who have time to lead.
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And children deserve educators who are supported to do their very best work.
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You'll have:
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Up to $42 per hour + Superannuation.
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An Exceeding-rated early learning service where you can grow, develop and take your career to the next level.
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Genuine family-owned and actively involved leadership.
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A dedicated Director of Pedagogy supporting educational excellence.
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Ongoing mentoring, coaching and professional development.
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Autonomy and trust in your professional practice.
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Exceptional resources and thoughtfully designed learning environments.
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A workplace culture built on respect, teamwork and high standards.
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Genuine career pathways as our organisation continues to grow.
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What we expect from our Lead Educators
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We're not looking for someone who simply wants to be in charge of a room.
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We're looking for someone who understands that leadership is about people, practice and purpose.
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You will:
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Hold a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care, or be working towards it.
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Have proven experience as a Lead Educator or Room Leader.
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Be confident leading a team and taking genuine ownership of a room.
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Have strong knowledge of the EYLF, NQF and Child Safe Standards.
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Be confident with programming, documentation and critical reflection.
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Build genuine relationships with children, families and colleagues.
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Lead by example and maintain high professional standards.
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Be reflective, organised and proactive.
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Be committed to continuous improvement.
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Value child-led learning and meaningful educational experiences.
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Want the autonomy and responsibility that comes with leading a room.
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We believe great leadership starts with accountability.
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At Little Wishes, we have high expectations because children deserve our best.
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We value educators who take ownership, reflect honestly, welcome feedback and are committed to continually improving their practice.
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You don't need to know everything.
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But you do need to care.
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You need to care about your practice.
n You need to care about the children.
n You need to care about your team.
n And you need to care enough to keep getting better.
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That's the kind of leader we want leading our Toddler Room.
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If you're an experienced Lead Educator who knows you have more to give...
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If you're ready to be trusted with genuine autonomy...
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If you want to work within a leadership team that will support you rather than simply expect you to manage everything yourself...
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This could be your next move.
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At Little Wishes, we don't want to simply fill positions.
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We want to find exceptional educators, invest in them and create an environment where outstanding practice can thrive.
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We're committed to setting a new benchmark for early childhood education — and we're looking for people who want to be part of it.

📌 Toddler Lead Educator (Queensland)
🏢 Little Wishes Early Learning Centre Chermside
📍 Queensland