How We Support childcare services
At Firefly HR, we are more than just recruiters.
With many of our team coming from a background of Early Childhood or OSHC/OOSH, we can offer many different types of childcare support.
Want to work with us? Check out our services 👇
Lighting up the sector
Why work with Firefly HR?
Running your Education & Care service is an all-encompassing job.
Add on top the recruitment, the admin and managing your team, it’s almost impossible to do that yourself. That’s where Firefly HR comes in, providing the childcare support services you need.
The Firefly HR team are more than equipped to help you navigate everything from meeting ratios through solving staffing problems, to Exceeding the NQS with compliance audits.
Our experienced team have extensive backgrounds as educators, directors, leaders and providers. We’ve seen it all and done it all in both OSHC and Early Childhood.
We’ve even used recruiters & childcare consultants ourselves, so we know just how hard it is – and just how valuable that extra pair of hands can be.
Childcare Support Services
RECRUITMENT
CONSULTING
We assist Services to provide quality care in all NQS areas. Depending on what your needs are, we will comprehensively assess your Service and help you to create a holistic care environment by empowering your team to make quality improvements to their everyday practices.
Our ex-Directors will provide you with practical steps that you can easily implement into your Service. We love to see the industry constantly improve. By sharing our knowledge about best practice, what we have personally implemented in our Services, and our ideas on embedding your amazing existing practices, we will shine brighter together.
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We provide training and professional development to OSHC professionals through seminars run by our team and expert speakers, Think Tanks, OSHC Online Sessions, blog posts and more. The diverse methods of training that we offer will assist you to become the best educator or leader you can be.
Our team of extremely knowledgeable and experienced ex directors take you through a series of professional development sessions each term, featuring special guests in the industry. Sit back with a cup of tea and learn new things, soak in different ideas and perspectives, explore polarising but important subjects, or gain more insight into topics that you thought you already had a handle on. Our professional development sessions focus on what you want to learn, so you can constantly increase your knowledge and ensure your Service is thriving.
Some of our recent professional development sessions have covered
- The Concept of Country
- Reading P&L and Balance Sheets
- Active Supervision
- Management Essentials
- Inclusion Support
Find out what’s on...
CAREER MENTORSHIP
RESOURCES
Your time is valuable! We recognise that the regulatory requirements of the OSHC industry are stringent, which is why we are here to assist you. We’ve created several resources to make your life easier. Documentation templates, policies and procedures, and induction programmes are just some of our resources available.
COMPLIANCE AUDITS
Firefly HR leads the way in providing the OSHC sector with resources and support around compliance and regulatory requirements. We have years of experience both working in the field and consulting with many types of providers.
Firefly HR are able to tailor make content & offer support that meets the needs of your unique service and its context whilst ensuring you are meeting your legislative requirements.
TENDER WRITING
Do you run amazing Services and would like to expand? We will help you secure your next Service, so you can make a positive impact on the lives of more children! Or, if you are going up for tender and need an application that stands out? We are here to help!
Our experienced team will highlight your organisation’s best features and package them to appeal to tender judging panels. Creating a tender application that showcases your Service’s uniqueness, community orientation, values, and child and parent satisfaction is what we do best.
