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Peninsula HR

Expert HR and WHS advice for the childcare industry

Providing personalised HR and WHS advice 24/7 to your childcare business

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You face many challenges when you run a childcare business. We're here to provide the ongoing support you need

Growing operational costs, attraction and retention of qualified employees, and trying to keep pace with changing government policies. These are just a few of the challenges you have to deal with every day as a childcare business owner. With expert advice available 24/7 on HR and Workplace Health and Safety issues, you can get the answers you need to your most challenging questions. Giving you and your team the extra time and support you need to provide the highest level of care possible.

Common issues in the childcare industry

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Modern award rate

Get expert advice on the latest Modern Award or enterprise agreement to ensure your employees are paid correctly.

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Employee Management

Personalised advice to help you with performance management, disciplinary action and redundancies or other employee issues.

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Hiring and onboarding

The right onboarding process offers support, training, and resources so new employees are confident in their role.

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Supporting staff wellbeing

Help your employees manage their mental wellbeing with access to qualified counsellors through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

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Creating employee handbooks

We can tailor an employee handbook to your business needs, outlining to new and existing employees your culture and expected conduct.

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Health and safety

Our team can advise on workplace risks such as slips, trips, and falls, muscle strain from lifting children or moving desks.

Working in childcare is fun and highly rewarding. Our proactive approach to HR and WHS allows our team to fully assess and deliver offer tailored solutions for these and many other challenges your childcare business can face. Our team of experts can help you save time and money. Allowing you and your team to focus on providing the highest level of care.

Creating a safe environment for the children and employees is paramount in childcare.

Some common health and safety risks include:

  • Slips, trips and falls
  • Muscle strain from lifting and moving desks and tables
  • Musculoskeletal risks: Bending, crouching, kneeling, twisting, and sitting on the floor to interact with children.
  • Regular manual tasks: Carrying children and regularly bending to pick up toys.
  • Bullying and harassment.
  • Regular illness: Exposure to colds, flu, and viruses from close contact with sick children.

Peninsula can help identify workplace hazards to minimise risks to your employees, visitors and children through:

  • SafeCheck: A comprehensive on-site workplace risk assessment by a Peninsula WHS expert.
  • Creating or updating Health and Safety policies, incident processes and procedures, and other critical documentation.
  • Health and Safety software to help with incident reporting.
  • An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to help employees manage stress and mental health challenges.
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Enhancing Health and Safety in childcare

Expert HR and WHS advice tailored to the needs of your childcare business

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Unlimited 24/7 advice line

As a Peninsula client you can always call our local expert team and feel secure knowing you’re getting the right advice for your business.

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Protecting your business

Exclusive to Peninsula clients, Peninsula Protect offers protection for legal liability and defence costs arising from HR and WHS claims.

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Smart technology

Smart software with unlimited cloud-based storage helps keep accurate records of annual, sick or other leave and streamline admin tasks.

If you don't have the internal resources available to create or update your business-critical critical documentation to ensure your business remains compliant, Peninsula's experienced HR and WHS advice team can develop employee contracts, handbooks, manuals and policies for you. We can also provide advice on wages for full-time, part-time, or casual employees and contractors, overtime, public holiday or award rates. Our expert team have got you covered.

Unlimited 24/7 HR advice

Our experienced team of advisers can give you the answers you need to your most challenging questions 24/7.