Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $70,000 - $72,262
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Early childhood
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: 15140
The Opportunity:
This is an incredible opportunity to educate young people and be a part of shaping futures! This position is an ongoing, full-time role at 76 hours per fortnight.
As an Early Childhood Educator, your daily tasks may include a combination of:
The RCH’s Early Learning Centre is a 159-place centre catering predominately for RCH staff and community children aged from 6-weeks to 5 years.
If you are interested in finding out more about the department, please click here.
Classification for this position is in accordance to Award 48.
The successful candidate will be appointed to CS65 (Level 5 Advanced Educator), $36.57 per hour, plus superannuation.
The Impact You Will Make:
You will play a vital role in children’s lives by fostering their learning, wellbeing, social development, and school readiness during the most important years of growth.
Your impact on the wider RCH community will be seen through:
What You’ll Bring to the Role:
If this sounds like you, or if you would like more information, please click here for the position description.
What You’ll Get in Return:
Application Process:
You may find that your experience doesn’t match every requirement listed, and that’s completely normal. If this role resonates with where you are in your career, we encourage you to apply rather than self‑select out. Your skills and perspective could be exactly what adds strength to the team.
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Please submit:
For more information about this position please contact Courtney Caligiore, Manager, via ph: 93455370, OR email: [email protected]
Why work at the RCH?
RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.
We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.
The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.
It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.
It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.
Are you ready to join our team?
Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button
Applications close: 06 August 2026.