Career Pathways
Education and Childcare sector
Choose your future and select your career role
Consider the many different roles available to you within Education and Childcare. There is a broad spectrum of people you can work with, from young children as a Playgroup Supervisor, through to school level as Teacher Aides and even working with adults as a Corporate Trainer.
- Educator in a center-based service
- Family Day Care Educator
- Kindergarten assistant
- Mobile Early Childhood Service Educator
- Occasional Care Educator at an Early Childhood service
- Operator of a Family Day Care service
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- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander education worker
- Education Assistant
- Education Assistant (special needs)
- Education Support Officer
- Education Support Worker
- Home Tutor
- Homeland Teaching Assistant
- Language Worker
- Literacy Worker
- School Learning Support Officer
- Support Worker (working with children with disabilities)
- Teacher Aide
- Teaching Assistant
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- Children's Advisor
- Children's Service Director
- Children's Service Manager
- Group/Team Coordinator (Children's Services)
- Group/Team Leader (Children's Services)
- OOSH Coordinator (In states where the qualification is recognised as appropriate)
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