Registered ECE Teacher | Busy Bees Taupo

NZ - Registered Teacher

Bring your heart, your craft, and your curiosity. If you love seeing tamariki light up as they discover the world, this is a place to pour your energy into meaningful, relationship-centred teaching.

We are on the lookout for a registered kaiako to join our team at Busy Bees Taupo!  Join us to nurture curiosity, build strong relationships, and create meaningful learning experiences that set our tamariki up for lifelong success.

About us:

Busy Bees Taupō is a warm, community-minded centre where every child is a taonga and every whānau feels at home. You’ll find nourishing, home-cooked kai, a sunny backyard for real, unhurried play, and calm, well-resourced rooms for each age and stage. Our locally based kaiako know our families and turn everyday moments into rich learning through thoughtful provocations, arts, and inquiry. We love tuakana-teina time where older and younger tamariki learn alongside one another. Partnership with parents is our anchor, and inclusion is our promise: we celebrate language weeks, host kapa haka evenings, and embrace Matariki, Diwali, Chinese New Year, and more so every culture is seen and valued. As part of Busy Bees Aotearoa, you’ll be backed to learn, lead, and thrive.
 

About you:

You’re an energetic, caring kaiako with NZ teacher registration (ECE or Primary) and a strong grasp of Te Whāriki. You plan, assess, and review confidently (e.g. learning stories/Storypark), creating engaging, play-based environments and provocations that spark curiosity. Warm, clear communication helps you build responsive relationships with tamariki, whānau, and your team, and you keep supervision and safety tight. You value bicultural practice, weave simple te reo Māori into everyday moments, and champion inclusion. Reflective and growth-minded, you use evidence to lift outcomes; strengths in behaviour guidance, additional needs, or mentoring are a bonus.

Why you’ll love working here:

• Full Pay Parity

• Monthly staff wellbeing budget + access to EAP

• Comprehensive induction, regular mentoring, and relevant PLD

• Discounted childcare

• First Aid certification provided + annual flu vaccination

• Uniform provided

• Clear growth pathways and ongoing professional development

We welcome experienced and emerging kaiako. Apply with your CV and tell us how we can set you up to thrive.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid work visa.

We are an Accredited Employer

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.