Head Teacher

About the role

Sunny Days is a licenced ECE Service within Weave Hawke's Bay. The Team Leader role is responsible for providing high quality early childhood education in a safe, loving and warm environment, working professionally and competently in accordance with the Centre's Annual Plan and statutory requirements. The Team Leader provides effective leadership and guidance to their team, ensuring their area maintains high quality across the licensing criteria at all times, and supports the team with Professional Growth Cycle, internal evaluations and quality outcomes for all tamariki.

Key responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership and guidance to your team ensuring your area maintains high quality across the licensing criteria at all times
• Ensure the team are supported with Professional Growth Cycle, internal evaluations and quality outcomes for all tamariki at all times
• Guide and mentor fellow Teachers for best outcomes, being a role model whilst on and off the floor
• Encourage and guide Teachers through their Professional Growth Cycle and support Centre Manager and staff with PGC meetings
• Take responsibility for professional practice and educational leadership, ensuring all daily and weekly tasks are completed according to requirements
• Identify the individual and group needs of children through appropriate observation techniques and effectively plan, implement and evaluate programmes for children
• Ensure the safety and welfare of children and practise safe health and hygiene practices
• Lead regular documented team meetings to contribute to broader goals of the team and Sunny Days
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge and understanding of current approaches to effective teaching and learning, and inspire and motivate all teachers and support staff to continually improve the quality of teaching and learning
• Support Health and Safety practices by ensuring high quality health and safety practice is adhered to for adults and tamariki and proactively identify and manage health and safety risks

About you

• Current Teaching Practising Certificate/Teacher Certification
• Hold the minimum qualification recognised for a Trained Teacher in ECE
• Maintain a current First Aid Certificate
• Proven previous positive leadership experience - ideally on step 7-10
• Understanding and in-depth knowledge of the 2008 ECE Regulations and Licensing Criteria
• Proven initiative ability
• Full drivers Licence (and ability to drive our van)
• Competent with Microsoft Office products
• Experience in promoting their ECE service and working with the wider community
• Self-motivated and highly organised with excellent interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, and high work standards

About us

Weave Hawke's Bay provides services valued by families and individuals that help them along life's journey, founded on te awhina, te aroha. To support is to love. We provide effective whānau led services that help people on their life's journey. Our values of integrity, teamwork, innovation and compassion guide our actions and decisions. Sunny Days contributes to Weave Hawke's Bay's goals by providing high-quality ECE that is responsive to the needs of children and whānau, striving to strengthen our communities through meaningful, reciprocal relationships with families.