Safeguarding Trainer

Fixed-Term (6 Months) | State-Based Travel Required | Immediate Start

We’re looking for an experienced Safeguarding Trainer to support our Victorian services during an exciting period of growth and transition. This hands-on, field-based role will see you travel across our centres, working alongside educators and leaders to build capability, strengthen safeguarding practices and drive continuous improvement.

Busy Bees is a leading global early learning provider, with over 130 centres across Australia and around 3,000 employees. We’re passionate about providing high-quality education and giving every child the Best Start in Life.

Bee Safe: Child safety is at the heart of everything we do. Join us in strengthening safeguarding practices and creating safe, supportive environments for every child.

What you'll do

• Get hands-on in the rooms, coaching and mentoring educators to embed best-practice safeguarding.
• Visit centres across Victoria to observe practice, identify risks and provide practical, real-time feedback.
• Deliver engaging face-to-face training to build safeguarding knowledge, confidence and compliance.
• Support services through transition, ensuring child safety standards and processes are consistently applied.
• Partner with service leaders and operational teams to drive continuous improvement while maintaining a strong, independent focus on child safety.

What you'll bring

• Genuine passion for child safety, wellbeing and quality practice.
• Strong early childhood experience, ideally with safeguarding, compliance, quality or training.
• Hands-on coaching and mentoring skills, with a passion for supporting educators on the floor.
• Sound safeguarding knowledge and the ability to identify risks and recommend practical improvements.
• Flexibility to travel extensively across Victorian services.

Why Busy Bees?

Because we offer the B.E.E.S. Advantage:

Better pay. Everyday balance. Education for growth. Support you can rely on.

• Make a real impact on child safety and quality across multiple Busy Bees centres.
• Base salary plus vehicle allowance to support travel between services.
• Connect with leaders nationally and explore our Global Talent Exchange Program across the UK, Canada and Asia.
• Be part of an organisation where child safety and quality come first.
• Work with experienced leaders and collaborative teams built on trust and respect.

Employment is conditional on satisfactory, rigorous pre-employment checks (including WWCC, ID, Qualifications, Gecko Training, Work Rights & References) and child safety training, reflecting our strong commitment to safeguarding, equity, diversity and inclusion.

We are proud to be a child safe organisation, putting child safety at the heart of everything we do through our Triple Layer Child Safety Framework: trusted, trained and caring people, safe, supervised and supportive environments, and clear, consistent and transparent processes.

Why Work for Busy Bees?
If you’re passionate about early learning, Busy Bees is the place to be. Although we are part of a global organisation, our company was founded by three families looking for better, more enriching childcare. Three decades later, we still keep the same values at heart.

We know that we couldn’t do what we do without the important people in our teams. We invest in our people and work with them to build career pathways that inspire.