Post Title: Early Years Support Worker
Team: Early years and School Readiness
A vacancy for a Early Years Support Worker has arisen within the Early Years and School Readiness Team.
1 part time Maternity Leave vacancy working 22.22 hours per week (3 days) with a Working pattern of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
You will be expected to provide:
· Practical and emotional support to children and their families
· Plan and implement programmes of agreed work with children and their families
· Promote parents’ participation in sessions and their child’s development
You will be Part of a skilled, friendly and supportive team and work closely with a wide range of professionals.
Early years support workers are required to:
· Work closely with Early Years settings, Children’s Centres and Early Help teams as well as other professionals.
· Provide emotional support, advice and sign posting to parents, carers, and families.
· Support parents’ carers in all aspects of their child development.
· Contribute to assessments and work alongside other agencies to ensure parents and families can make positive changes
· To develop links with universal services and work alongside agencies to provide specific intervention
· To provide the right support at the right time for children and their families
· To plan, develop and implement universal services
You must
· Level 3 or above qualification in Early Years.
· Have experience of working with families aged 0-5
· Have a sound knowledge of early child development and the early years foundation stage and current legislation and documents relating to early years education
· To have experience of working with parent/carers
· To have experience of multi-agency working
· To have knowledge of the story so far or equivalent assessment tool
You will report directly to the team leader:
Samantha McLaren
You will work across the borough of Bury delivering services within our 3 localities
Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis with some evening and weekend that occasionally may be required.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
Employee Benefits include:
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A range of attractive work/life balance policies in place together with a number of employee benefit and health and wellbeing offers including employee assistance programme.
- 26 days annual leave, rising to 31 days’ after 5 years
- Fantastic training and development opportunities
- Employee discount scheme which provides discounts with local business within the borough as well as a cycle to work scheme and car lease scheme
We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
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