Are you a passionate early childhood professional ready to take the lead?
Do you love building strong teams, creating joyful learning environments, and making a real impact on children and families? This could be your next big move!
As our Service Leader, you’ll be the heart of the service, leading daily operations, inspiring educators, and ensuring children receive high‑quality education and care in a warm, welcoming environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
We love building warm, meaningful connections with children and their families while leading and inspiring a passionate early learning team. From meeting and exceeding the National Law, Regulations and National Quality Standard to bringing our Quality Improvement Plan to life, we’re all about doing things brilliantly.
Every day is a chance to grow, improve and innovate, all while embedding the EYLF (Belonging, Being & Becoming) and/or My Time, Our Place into everything we do.
If you’re ready to step into a leadership role where your passion, expertise, and vision matter, we’d love to hear from you!
Apply now and help shape bright futures, one child at a time.
The position is permanent part time. In addition to a base of $40.00ph + super, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and the ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits, which can be used for living expenses such as groceries, bills, clothing, streaming services, and much more.
With our meal entertainment benefit of $2,650 annually, you can save on dining out and drinks, making the most of your pre-tax dollars. At Uniting, you can also access the following:
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If this role sounds like a good fit for you, apply soon. We'll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the advert early.
For any questions, please contact Kirra Thorne, Service Leader at kirra.thorne@vt.unting.org or call 0466 473 810 during business hours.
We create real change in people’s lives by working in partnership with people, communities, governments and other agencies to reduce the impact of poverty, trauma and disadvantage.
We provide compassionate care for people facing tough times and personal challenges. We support children and young people to break the cycle of disadvantage. We help families keep safe, together and thriving.
For over 100 years we’ve been fighting inequality, opposing discrimination, and responding to the needs in our communities across Victoria and Tasmania.
Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org
We are an inclusive, values-led organisation and proudly welcome people of all identities, backgrounds and experiences. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with lived and living experience relevant to our work.
We are committed to inclusive hiring practices. You are welcome to share your pronouns and let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process. We are here to support you.
Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed to the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of all children and young people. We embed child safety in everything we do. Employment with Uniting is subject to relevant pre-employment checks, including a National Police Check and Working with Children Check.

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