Current Vacancies

We are seeking enthusiastic, self-motivated individuals who would like to join our Mallee Minors Childcare team. This vacancy is available Full Time or Part Time (negotiable hours) and is open for anyone who has completed a Diploma level in Education and Care.

We operate an innovative service that serves the education and care needs of a range of communities along the Mallee Track including Sea Lake, Manangatang, Underbool, Ouyen and Murrayville.

Essential:

• Current Victorian Driver’s Licence.
• Current Police Check.
• Current Working with Children Certificate.
• Certificate III in Children’s Services OR Diploma of Children’s Services OR Bachelor of Early Childhood OR equivalent qualification recognised under the Children’s Services Regulations, 2009.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal.
• Good time-management.
• Have an interest in improving the health of families through the delivery of children’s services.
• Participates as part of a co-operative team.
• Abiding by the Organisation’s Code of Conduct.
• Fulfils duty of care, including ethical practices.
• Using own initiative to complete tasks.

Desirable:

• Current First Aid, Asthma and Anaphylaxis Certificates.
• Sound understanding and knowledge of early childhood development.
• Experience working in a child care setting.
• Proven ability to apply high ethical standards to represent MTHCS in a professional manner.
• Ability to assist in the implementation of a detailed developmentally appropriate program for children 0-6 years of age.
• Ability to participate in parental involvement in planning programs and care.
• Ability to be efficient and effective at completing allocated tasks.
• Ability to effectively engage with families and co-workers.

Organisational:

• MTHCS has a responsibility to maintain current policy; it is the responsibility of all staff to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and MTHCS policies and procedures.
• Support systems that provide safe, high quality care that increases patient experience and patient centred care.
• To comply with MMCCC Code of Conduct.
• To comply with MTHCS Code of Conduct.
• To ensure that MTHCS Infection Control guidelines are fully implemented.
• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of diversity and culture.
• MTHCS has a responsibility to maintain current policy; it is the responsibility of all staff to be aware of current policy.
• Maintains current knowledge of the relevant Acts, Regulations and Standards (State and Commonwealth) that affect childcare services and incorporates them into all aspects of practice.
• These include:
  • Children’s Services Act 1996
  • Children’s Services Regulations 2009
  • Education and Care National Law 2010
  • Education and Care National Regulations
  • Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework
  • My Time Our Place Framework
  • National Quality Framework

Professional:

• Provide a healthy, safe and welcoming environment.
• Provide a learning environment which responds to each child’s developmental abilities.
• Implement planned and spontaneous activities.
• Implement daily routines that meet the needs of the individual child and the group as a whole.
• Deliver a service which is child and family centred in its approach.
• Assist the Room Leader/Teacher in the day to day supervision and implementation of education and development programs for young children.
• Ensure compliance with MTHCS policies and procedures/guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with MTHCS Infection Control policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated awareness and understanding of diversity and culture.
• Engage with families with a positive attitude regardless of diversity and culture.
• All staff members shall be expected to maintain strict confidentiality in relation to all matters pertaining to MTHCS activities.
• Ensuring compliance with the relevant Acts, Regulations and Standards that affect Children’s Services.
• Work as a multi-disciplinary team member.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude to the agreed role and responsibilities of the position.
• Ability to identify, discuss and resolve problems.
• High level of overall personal presentation.
• Using own initiative to complete tasks.
• Prioritise tasks accordingly.
• Other duties as directed.

Family Centred Practice:

• Provide inclusion support by assisting the bus service or by walking to pick up and/or drop off children to their allocated venues.
• Provide a welcoming and culturally inclusive environment where all families are encouraged to participate in and contribute to children’s learning and development experiences.
• Use the families’ understanding of their children to support shared decision making about each child’s learning and development.
• Build positive relationships with families.
• Actively engage families and children in the planning of children’s learning and development.
• Supports parents and communicates child/ren’s developmental needs after discussion with the Room Leader/Teacher.
• Following sleep, meal, individual daily routines and medical requirements as discussed with families.
• Provide input into the implementation and review, in consultation with parents and service providers, a program that is suited to the individual needs and interests of the children. The program should reflect the diverse and cultural needs and interests of the children.

Continuous Improvement:

• Attend monthly Staff meetings.
• If not attended, follow up with missed staff meeting information.
• Provide input into Policy and Procedure review, Quality Improvement Plan, children’s development, safe work practices, evaluation of new products and equipment etc.
• Work towards compliance and best practice.
• Participate in hazard inspections, first aid kit audits, food thermometer audits and internal/external audits.
• Provide reflection and input for Incident/Injury/Trauma as needed.
• Carry out own self-critical reflection for improvement.
• Communicating to other staff of any changes throughout the day.
• Maintain an updated knowledge of children’s needs.

Administration:

• Complete the required mandatory forms throughout the day as required.
• Assists in ensuring that all new families are appropriately enrolled and orientated to the service.
• Answer the phone to the best of your knowledge, referring to another staff member or Admin if required or take a message with callers name and number to call back.
• Assist in tracking bookings for children.
• Actively participate in communicating with others.
• Completing the required operational forms such as Requisition for Repairs, Order Form, Training/Study Leave form, Leave Forms, Sick Certificate etc as required.

Programming Responsibilities:

• Working under the direction of the Room Leader/Teacher to ensure that children’s developmental outcomes are met and progressed.
• Provide professional, developmentally informed observations about children and their development to assist other qualified educators within the service to undertake program planning.
• Provide assistance to maintain the necessary developmental records of children, programs and planning as specified in the Regulations for Children‘s Services Centres and by the Mallee Track Health and Community Service Integrated Management Systems.
• Discuss with the Early Years Program Leader/Room Leader/Teacher, the specific needs of families and children attending the service.
• Assist in seeking parental involvement in development and implementing the service’s programs.
• Support and assisting other educators as required.

General Tasks:

• Setting up and packing away activities at the start, end and throughout the day where required.
• Responding to children’s need as required, including but not limited to sleep, dietary, toileting, first aid, hygiene, weather, nutrition and medical.
• Demonstrate and reinforce hygiene practices to children.
• Support and assist the Room leader/Teacher, other educators, new recruits or staff not regularly rostered at your service and work experience students in the room as required.
• Other duties as directed.

Domestic Services:

• Housekeeping tasks such as cleaning tables, chairs, dishes, floors and taking out of bins.
• Following the cleaning regime for toys, and sanitising of dishes.
• Preparation of children’s meals as required.
• Restocking of supplies as needed.
• Putting away supplies as needed.