Overview
Early Education and Childcare Advisor – NN16 8TL
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
To provide expert educational support and challenge to all Early Years settings to quality assure the inclusive education provision available. In an advisory capacity, enable settings to raise and improve children’s achievements; particularly those young people identified as being within vulnerable groups and/or young children with complex support needs.
To provide expert operational and strategic guidance, advice, information and training on all aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage, SEND Code of Practice and the accompanying statutory frameworks for all Early Years settings in North Northants; ensuring the promotion of diversity, inclusion and safeguarding.
About you
We are seeking to recruit highly skilled, experienced and motivated individuals to join our team of Advisors in our Education Effectiveness Service, supporting the Childcare Sector in North Northamptonshire.
The successful candidate will have a creative, innovative approach contributing to the design of a new advisory service following a recent review. They will work within all relevant policy frameworks, statutory legislation and guidelines applying extensive knowledge of the early years’ sector to offer challenge, advice and support to early years’ providers. They will be a team player who enjoy working in partnership with a solution focussed attitude.
Please refer to the attached person specification for details of the essential and desirable qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience required for this role.
Previous applicants need not apply
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
