First Door - Early Childhood

Last weekend was joy-filled with our fab team together on Bribie Island for our 5th annual team retreat.

Huge thank you to each of you for saying goodbye to your family to be together and for sprinkling laughter throughout the weekend.

It was wonderful to share so many fun experiences together: a festa dinner celebration, each of us driving a hired boat, a sea view lunch, discovering more about ourselves and each other, planning our next 1 year goals based on First Door values, and feeling nourished.

Cheers to each of you and to our year ahead together!

Please join us in congratulating the achievement of these dedicated educators for receiving their well-earned early childhood qualifications over the last couple of months. Here’s a few of their smiling faces and some proud photos.

Our team looks forward to celebrating with you at our next graduation celebration in November.
We are excited to see where this qualification takes you in your early childhood career, and your next steps for continuing your growth.

Three cheers to these fabulous and qualified educators!

💚 Talon Atkinson-Maul
💚 Hannah Higgins
💚 Jai Love
💚 Frances Ferguson
💚 Miriam Maslejova
💚 Danielle Wilson
💚 Rhiannan Thompson
💚 Layne Butt
💚 Jennifer Pukallus
💚 Sruti Deepak
💚 Anneka Roberts
💚 Charlotte Smith
💚 Ataia Hendy
💚 Elena Jerrard
💚 Kira Paterson
💚 Olivia Palmer
💚 Jennifer Forrest
💚 Kyeema Besgrove
💚 Rhiannna Thompson

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Success story!
In one year this team has transformed in quality from ‘Working towards’ to ‘Exceeding the NQS’.

Huge congratulations Shaun, Laura and the team at Rosie's Early Learning - Mount Samson for your massive vision, passion and commitment to providing exceptional education and care.

This incredible achievement is a true reflection of your values, philosophy, and collaborative leadership.

We’re beyond proud to be your RTO partner and look forward to seeing your journey continue. 💚

Three cheers to you all! 🎉🎉🎉

Huge congratulations for this incredible achievement of the 5th Excellent rating at Bribie Island Community Kindergarten. 🎉🤩

Massive thanks from First Door and on behalf of everyone in the ECEC sector that gains inspiration from team BICKs exceptional philosophy, practices, environment, and leadership. 💚🌱

A special mention, big shout out and cheers to you Narelle, for consistently guiding your team to bring excellence into being, for leaning in to your community and for sharing the fabulous work you all do. 🎉🎉🎉💐

CONGRATULATIONS team BICK and community!

Team BICK are so very excited to be able to share that we have been awarded by ACECQA the Excellent rating for the 5th consecutive time.
The first and only ECEC Service in Australia to achieve this milestone.
There are so many people who help make BICK who it is and what it stands for and there are waaaaay too many to list individually. But, to summarise it’s our volunteers, our Intergen seniors and the oldies too. It’s the Bribie Island Community as a whole. It’s our colleagues near and far. It’s all those educators we have welcomed and opened our doors to, to share our program, practice, the environment and the BICK way. But most importantly it’s our jarjums and their families and the amazing irreplaceable, loyal and genuinely fully committed Team BICK that also includes our Management Committee……..so a MASSIVE and heartfelt thankyou to you all because without each and everyone of you this wouldn’t have been possible ❤️

We LOVE this guiding statement from Kindulili.

It’s a complete joy to be part of the professional learning journey of the team at Kindulili Early Learning, thanks to Kindy Uplift funding.

What does your team value as central to your community?

At Kindulili, the child’s voice is central to our community. 🌳 🩵 🌻

Children have true autonomy over their spaces, routines, and rituals - and as educators we capture their ideas and thinking. Through deep listening and intentional observation, we honour their ideas, agency, and sense of belonging. 👌

First Door is growing, with lots of new partner services and students, so we're looking for three more amazing, Mentors/Trainers and Assessors to join our team. We have three positions available based in:
1. Ipswich - including Forest Lake and Toowoomba areas
2. Beenleigh - for Logan and Gold Coast areas
3. Caboolture - including Beerwah, Kilcoy and Sunshine Coast areas

First Door operates and plans from our values. Our team is strengths-based and empowering. We are supportive, transparent and collaborative with a great teamwork ethos.

These roles will start as part time for 30 hours per week, commencing end of January or in February 2026. Your flexible work hours are expected to increase to full time as your student numbers grow.

🙋 Q: Do you share our dedication for making great things happen in the Early Childhood profession?
🙋Q: Are you committed to quality improvement and your own professional growth?
🙋Q: Does supporting and inspiring educators to become their professional best fill you with purpose and joy?

If this sounds like you and if people can see, hear and feel your passion and mission for quality education and care, then we want to talk with you!

💚 Role purpose

The Early Childhood mentor and assessor role is to provide a positive and helpful professional learning student experience that supports our Early Childhood students’ successful onboarding and course progress. This role requires emotional intelligence and excellent communication in your: response and follow up to student enquiries, student mentoring and assessment to create a successful learning experience.

This role is performed according to First Door's team charter, code of conduct and supports the business objectives of First Door to achieve its vision.


💚ECEC Mentor & Assessor key responsibilities:

To work both autonomously and collaboratively to accurately and effectively to:

- Welcome your new Early Childhood students following the enrolment process.
- Mentor your growing group of students, including service visits in your defined area and provide study support by phone, online meetings and email.
- Assess Early Childhood students' practical skills and knowledge in practice in mentoring meetings
- Assess and provide feedback on their online assessment using our student portal.
- Contribution to continuous improvement of First Door, in projects and at team meetings.
- Support growth of First Door, using personal strengths by actively seeking opportunities to promote First Door and collaborate on projects with the Company - Director to support the growth of First Door services.
- Facilitate strength-related services/projects, e.g., opportunity to be a Practice Coach at services that have purchased our Team Learning packages and want additional support to implement into team practice, or facilitate services, such as Educational Leader Mentorship.

✔ Knowledge/experience required:

- Experienced Educator, Educational Leader, or Early Childhood Teacher in leading quality improvement in an Early Childhood Education and Care service/s

- Experienced mentor and coach, in supporting educators' professional growth and skill development

- Experience successfully communicating with educators/Early Childhood students, service leaders and external stakeholders

- Experienced advocate for quality Early Childhood Education and Care, with positive reputation in the Early Childhood profession

- Student administration experience with technology competence, e.g. using MSTeams, Excel and student management software

- Knowledge of the training and assessment compliance requirements in ASQA’s Standards for RTOs 2025.

✔ Qualifications required:

- TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care qualification or higher, and/or relevant and current experience in Early Childhood Education and Care with superseded CHC50113 Diploma of ECEC qualification.
- Currency with evidence of professional readings and learning, relating to current sector research and trends.

To apply for this role, please email me with:

1. your resume outlining your qualifications and experience to meet the above criteria

2. a cover letter (or short video) that tells me why you fit this role

I’m looking forward to seeing how you can help us to make this world a better place.

Andrea Isitt, Company Director
E: [email protected]

Applications close 17 January 2026

See: www.firstdoor.com.au
RTO Code: 40782