Educators
Welcome to the Diverse Family Day Care
Flexible and rewarding career at home!
Combine your passion for children with the opportunity to create a financially rewarding and professional home-based career as an Early Childhood Educator. We recommend that you read the following details,
With a commitment to training and professional development, family day care can offer you the opportunity to start a rewarding new career with the flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of your own family.
If you are an early childhood professional working in a center-based environment, you may enjoy the freedom, flexibility and significant financial growth offered by family day care.
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Becoming a Family Day Care educator
As an educator you are entirely flexible to choose which days/hours suit you. You are in control of your business operations while you look after your own family needs under the complete support of our Coordination Unit.
Requirements
What experience or qualifications do I need to become an educator?
Experience working in education and care is not essential. Anyone can become an educator with the right training and qualifications!
You may have other skills and expertise which would support your work as an educator, however, we are also here to help you with your professional development and assist you with training to help you understand and apply the theories of childhood development and children’s learning throughout your career.
As part of the National Quality Framework, the ‘Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations’ determine that FDC educators must have:
- Qualifications: Certificate in Children’s services
- National Police Check
- Working with Children for educator and all residing at a family day care residence
- CPR and first aid for early childhood and care
- COVID-19 vaccination
- A suitable area to provide family day care services
While the above are basic requirements, there are also additional requirements and expectations from educator candidates which are easy to meet under our professional guidance. We will elaborate on these during our face-to-face discussion.
Family Day Care – a growing profession
Family day care in Australia has been in operation for 40 years. The demand for family day care services has been growing by leaps and bounds and it is on a constant rise. With family day care’s inclusion under the National Quality Framework and a growing awareness of the many unique benefits of the service, family day care is fast becoming the option of choice in early childhood education and care.
What to do next?
If you are considering taking family day care as a career path join, Diverse Family Day Care Service and send us your expression of interest by filling out the expression of interest form below.