Lead Early Years and Family Educator - Lincolnshire, United Kingdom - Early Years Alliance

Early Years Alliance

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Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role

We are currently recruiting for a new and exciting position of a Lead Early Years and Family Educator working across Lincolnshire Children Centres leading on PEEP for 3- and 4-year-olds and Making it Real as part of the Family Hub development.

Do you have the passion and commitment to make a difference to a family's life?

This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced and dedicated team of Lead Early Years and Family Educators working across Lincolnshire children's centres and local communities to deliver the new Early Years and Family Service, supporting all children to have the best start in life.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with families and lead and performance manage a small team.

You will provide leadership and management for Early Years and Family Educators providing high quality, fun and educational sessions, while supporting child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy, and working as part of an integrated early years team.

The Early Years Alliance will provide you with exciting training and the opportunity to learn new skills and experiences to support your professional development.

Benefits:

25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time employees
Additional annual leave for long service
Enhanced sickness pay.
Employer and employee contribution pension scheme
Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your wellbeing.
Regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities
A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
Vitality membership wellness and fitness app including lots of great health benefits, rewards, telephone, and face to face counselling.
Savings of up to 25% on O2 Refresh Airtime Plan on any new phone or tablets.
A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental wellbeing.

Main duties:

To provide leadership and performance management of staff employed to coordinate and deliver the designated commissioned Children's Centre projects, ensuring appropriate performance management takes place. This will include induction, one to one meeting, team meetings, and target setting.
Coordinate staffing across Children Centres and outreach venues to ensure consistent teams of workers ensuring sufficient staffing is in place for service delivery, whilst ensuring flexibility as needs within each of the quadrants change.
To provide peer support, mentoring and guidance to Early Years and Family Service Educators, volunteers and work placement students.
To participate in the quality assurance processes and inspections by Ofsted and any other external bodies following any action plans as a result directed by the management team.
To provide the evidenced based programmes Making it Real and PEEP and any other highquality educational and fun sessions for children in their early years and their families to support child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy.

Essential criteria:

NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or a health and social care degree level with relevant early years and childcare modules, or Early years Teacher Status.
Proven experience of working in a similar leadership and management role.
Experience, knowledge and understanding of child development, EYFS and how children learn through play.
Experience of working with families to provide an effective home learning environment.
Proven effective communication skills able to communicate effectively in person and in writing, with professionals, staff, early help and social care teams and other organisations.
Experience of a successful multiagency approach with professionals, early help teams, social care teams and other early years settings.

This post is fixed term until 30th June 2024.

Hours per week:

20

Weeks per year:

52

Virtual interview date:

Wednesday 28th June 2023

Please note our virtual interviews take place via Microsoft Teams, you may need to download this prior to your interview.
***All successful applicants will be required to register and subscribe with the DBS Update Service (if you have not already done so) and undertake a new enhanced disclosure and barring check (even if you have an existing DBS Certificate).

About The Service
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