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The smarter way to manage employment in childcare.

You give your little ones a great experience at day care – it’s time to give your educators a standout experience too.

Streamline HR, recruitment and payroll with Employment Hero’s all-in-one Employment Operating System.
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Childcare centres that love us

And here's why...

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The easiest way to recruit and retain qualified early childhood educators

Finding qualified and suitable early childhood educators is an ongoing challenge. Tap into SmartMatch, our AI-powered recruitment tool designed to instantly match you with qualified, work-ready educators – and watch open roles get filled in record time.
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Stay across compliance, educator certifications and legal obligations

Whether it’s staying on top of staff-to-child ratios with smart rostering, ensuring educator certifications are up to date or managing policies and contracts, Employment Hero helps you manage it all with ease.
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Reduce staff turnover and keep employee happiness high

With a range of meaningful employee engagement tools in-platform, you can keep your finger on the pulse when it comes to retaining your team. Access learning and development resources, reward and recognition tools, industry-leading employee benefits and more.

Developing the next generation starts with finding, growing and retaining exceptional childhood educators. Take a look at how Employment Hero can support your childcare business.

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Find the right educators for your business with SmartMatch

We know that finding the right people to nurture the bright minds of the future is an ongoing challenge for childcare centres.

Employment Hero’s AI-powered recruitment tool, SmartMatch, instantly matches qualified, work-ready candidates to your open roles, so you can have the best team to develop the next generation.

Assign relevant training online and have your team digitally acknowledge it

Need to train your team on new processes or procedures? Create your own learning modules with options to add videos and documents, along with assignments and quizzes, and have your team complete their assigned training in-app.

Manage staff-to-child ratios with easy rostering

Easily create your own roster template for your childcare business, accounting for specific staff-to-child ratios and unexpected educator absences.

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Finish pay runs in minutes, not days

Overwhelmed every time payday rolls around? Employment Hero takes the pressure off by automating the trickiest, most time-consuming parts of payroll.

Even if you’ve got a mix of full-time, part-time, and casual employees all on different pay rates, Employment Hero helps you do it without breaking a sweat.

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Say goodbye to manual HR and payroll admin

We know you don’t have time to spend knee-deep in leave spreadsheets or calculating complex payroll amounts.

Take control back in your day with powerful employment software, so you can focus on what matters most.

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Set your new hires up for success with a personalised onboarding experience

Tailor your onboarding process to your business with everything your new starters need to hit the ground running from day one.

Create checklists, assign policies, gather police and working with children checks, and share training modules all before their first day.

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Keep track of HR and compliance documents in one place

Don’t let HR compliance fall by the wayside. Ensure all essential contracts and policies are signed off by your team and up to date in-platform.

Outstanding policy acknowledgement from your team? Send reminder notifications to your team to get them to complete asap.

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Digitally store police checks, working with children checks and first-aid certificates in-platform

Digitally store all mandated checks, legal requirements and certifications for each of your educators so you’re never caught off guard. Plus, get automated reminders in-platform when they’re about to expire.

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Keep your team happy and engaged year-round

Your team is your greatest asset and keeping them happy and engaged is essential for providing great care to little minds.

Keep happiness levels high and burnout at bay with our learning and development modules, meaningful employee benefits to help fight cost of living pressures, reward and recognition tools and our EAP add-on service, providing confidential counselling sessions when they need it

See SmartMatch in action

See why Everlearn Preschool loves us

“Employment Hero has made staying on top of the processes – like chasing First Aid certifications and Working With Children Checks – so much easier. We also have 32 policies that everyone has to understand and acknowledge; 16 of those policies are required by regulators and the others are recommended.”

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Don't just take it from us...

Take a look at childcare success stories with Employment Hero

Montessori Beginnings simplifies hiring and improves candida...
Montessori Beginnings has streamlined its HR and Payroll tasks with the help of Employment Hero.
HR manager at Amaze Education saves hours with Employment He...
"I love how easy it is to use and that because it's cloud-based, I can access work from everywhere."
Everlearn Preschools cuts timesheet processing by 90% with E...
"Now they're in the system for the payroll; we've cut that process down from hours to max. 15 mins."

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Employment Hero’s time-tracking software makes it easy for your team to clock-in and clock-out from their phone or tablet, from wherever they are. The app takes a photo of the user and tracks the geo-location of every clocked event to capture accurate data.

When your business signs up with Employment Hero, all your employees will have access to the software. There’s also admin permissions for whoever will be managing the behind-the-scenes processes, such as shift management and payroll. Employment Hero can be easily accessed by an internet browser, or you can take it on the move with our dedicated app, Swag by Employment Hero. Using Swag opens you up to loads more free features – find out more here. 

Yes, there are many ways to adapt Employment Hero to your needs. Whether that’s the logo design on the platform, the addition of learning modules for training or automated custom surveys, you can set up Employment Hero so it’s perfectly suited to your business.

Absolutely! Our platform is designed specifically for businesses of all sizes. We believe that every employer should have access to cost-effective HR and payroll tools, regardless of business size. It’s not just big businesses that should reap rewards of great HR, people management, and payroll!

Yes, our HR software solution offers integration capabilities with commonly used tools and systems such as productivity suites like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. This integration helps ensure seamless data flow and enhances overall operational efficiency.

No, you don’t need an HR team to use our software. With Employment Hero, you can manage all aspects of HR yourself, without any existing HR team.

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Customers rate us 4.6
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