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Lauren Millar

Brisbane

Summary

Dynamic professional with extensive experience at Catholic Early Ed Care, excelling in team leadership and compliance management. Proven ability to foster strong relationships with families while implementing effective educational programs. Skilled in XPLOR software for efficient rostering and dedicated to maintaining high standards of care and safety for children.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Childcare Relief Centre Director

Catholic Early Ed Care
02.2025 - Current
  • Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with children and families to ensure high standards of care.
  • Daily management of educator and staff absences ensuring correct educator to child ratio and adequate staffing and coverage
  • Effective staff management through creating rosters which are sent out 2 weeks in advance.
  • Ensuring compliance with under roof ratios and qualifications
  • Development of supervision management plans to ensure effective supervision at all times including indoors and outdoors.
  • Ensuring educators are efficiently scheduled based on their skills, experiences, relationships with children and qualifications to maintain high quality care
  • Delivering sleep and rest training and ensuring staff undertake relevant red nose sleep training in line with regulations
  • Ensuring educators are following policies and procedures to comply with legal and regulatory requirements as well as for the safety and well being of children.
  • Coordinate relief and agency staff and deliver inductions
  • Create risk minimisation plans for children relating to food allergies, asthma and anaphylactic allergies. Communicate with families to ensure relevant plans and medication are kept up to date to remain compliant.
  • Oversee the recruitment process including arranging and conducting interviews and organising onboarding documents for new recruits.
  • Complete employee inductions as needed throughout 2025 for any new staff joining the team.
  • Utilize childcare software (XPLOR) to manage bookings and rostering to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
  • Order necessary supplies through MTA, Winc including office supplies, supplies for special events and room resources ensuring resource availability across all rooms.
  • Planning special events including for fathers day, mothers day, grandparents day.
  • Organised relevant incursions
  • Support and collaborate with educators in the LDC in developing inspiring, creative, engaging and purposeful learning environments for children and families
  • Planned and held monthly staff meetings with educators
  • Organised and facilitated monthly lockdowns and evacuations as best practice to ensure compliant with WHS and regulations and to build staff confidence in handling emergencies
  • Management of parent complaints to ensure matters are dealt with and reported to relevant departments if required

Childcare Assistant Director

Catholic Early Ed Care
11.2023 - 02.2025
  • Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with children and families to ensure high standards of care.
  • Daily management of educator and staff absences ensuring correct educator to child ratio and adequate staffing and coverage
  • Ensuring compliance with under roof ratios and qualifications
  • Development of supervision management plans to ensure effective supervision at all times including indoors and outdoors.
  • Delivering sleep and rest training and ensuring staff undertake relevant red nose
  • Coordinate relief and agency staff and deliver inductions
  • Create risk minimisation plans for children relating to food allergies, asthma and anaphylactic allergies. Communicate with families to ensure relevant plans and medication are kept up to date to remain compliant.
  • Order necessary supplies through MTA, Winc including office supplies, supplies for special events and room resources ensuring resource availability across all rooms.
  • Planning special events including for fathers day, mothers day, grandparents day.
  • Organised relevant incursions
  • Support and collaborate with educators in the LDC in developing inspiring, creative, engaging and purposeful learning environments for children and families
  • Maintained daily records of children's individual activities, behaviors, meals, and sleeps.
  • Assisted with feeding to meet children's dietary needs.
  • Applied positive behavior management techniques to enhance social interactions and emotional development.
  • Built constructive and open relationships with families with forthright yet friendly communication.
  • Provided lunchtime assistance to monitor children, assist with eating and serve food.

Lead Educator Ages 6 Weeks-15 Months and 2-3 Years

Catholic Early Ed Care
01.2022 - 12.2024
  • Responsible for planning and implementing a nurturing, engaging and developmentally appropriate educational program
  • Build close relationships with children, families and assistant educators to ensure a standard of high quality care is delivered and aligned with the National Quality Framework and EYLF.
  • Implement routines to meet the individual needs of each child, ensuring flexibility within the routine
  • Maintain safe sleep practices aligned with red nose guidelines, relevant policies and regulatory requirements
  • Monitor developmental milestones and maintain detailed individual records and observations
  • Communicate daily with families via verbal updates and documentation
  • Responsible for incident, illness and injury reporting and communicating with families to ensure compliance and high standards of care
  • Guiding toddlers through toilet training and independence
  • Support the development of social- emotional skills through positive behaviour guidance. Planned and implemented activities relating to social emotional behaviour
  • Planned and implemented learning experiences that aligned with EYLF outcomes and childrens interests.
  • Demonstrated cycle of planning
  • Promoted physical development through both fine and gross motor activities
  • Collaborated with assistant educators to ensure balance within the room
  • Lead and mentor assistant educators
  • Collaborated with families to develop programs based on childrens interests
  • Ensure compliance with WHS, child protection and regulatory standards
  • Communicated effectively with assistant educators to ensure room was running smoothly

Education

Diploma - Early Childhood Care And Education

Australian College
NSW
03-2022

Skills

  • Excellent team work abilities with a proven track record of coaching and guiding others to ensure best practices and compliance
  • Exceptional customer service skills ensuring positive and effective interactions
  • Highly dedicated and committed
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with families
  • Outstanding organisational skills ensuring efficient management of tasks and priorities Deadlines are met on time
  • Proficient in the use of XPLOR rostering and Playground
  • Quick learner with a desire to acquire new skills and knowledge
  • Demonstrates initiative by seeking guidance from relevant departments when faced with uncertainty, ensuring tasks are completed correctly and in line with policies, procedures and compliance requirements

Timeline

Childcare Relief Centre Director

Catholic Early Ed Care
02.2025 - Current

Childcare Assistant Director

Catholic Early Ed Care
11.2023 - 02.2025

Lead Educator Ages 6 Weeks-15 Months and 2-3 Years

Catholic Early Ed Care
01.2022 - 12.2024

Diploma - Early Childhood Care And Education

Australian College

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