Phillipa Hegarty

• Streamlined communication between teachers, parents, and administrators to foster a collaborative learning environment.
• Worked collaboratively within a Centre leadership team.
• Implemented effective conflict resolution strategies for resolving issues among staff members.
• Mentored new Educators through observation, feedback, and professional development opportunities.
• Fostered a positive work culture by promoting open communication among staff members and celebrating successes together as a team.
• Enhanced classroom engagement with interactive group activities, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
• Maintaining, implementing and evaluating a weekly program, individual as well as group documentation in the form of learning stories, developmental checklists and summative assessments.
• Built relationships and communicated with parents to provide best learning environment for children.
• Collaborated with colleagues to develop and revise curriculum, enhancing learning experience.
• Conducted regular safety drills to ensure preparedness in case of emergency situations at the service.
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives.
• Monitored shift changes, Educator/child ratios to uphold successful operations strategies and maximise business success.
• Completed training with systems such as Xap and Dimensions.
• Conducted centre tours with a walk through of the centre, as well as an introduction to each room.

• Mentored staff through the cycle of planning, evaluated and provided feedback on staff documentation for both group and individual child learning stories and summative assessments.

• Mentored staff with the Early Years Learning Framework, understanding the framework, linking to documentations and programs.

•Mentored staff through their studies and traineeships. Guided staff through the centre Policies and procedures.

• Planned and directed staffing routines/duties. •Planned and programmed for 12 babies a day through a fortnightly compass program and daily activities sheet, ensuring all children were planned and programmed for with both individual and group documentation through learning stories, as well as summative assessments twice a year.

•Worked alongside staff as part of a team, guiding them through documentation, the cycle of planning, service policies and procedures.

•Worked collaboratively with families ensuring their needs and wants were being met, worked alongside them to achieve the outcomes they had for their children, established trusting relationships with families and children ensuring they felt part of and connected to the service.

•Organised staff rosters and lunch breaks.

•Orientation for new families, walk through the service and an introduction to each room.

•Assisting in maintaining the QIP and ensuring staff contribute regularly to it. Assisted with reviewing and updating center's policies.