Early Years Support Worker
Early Years Support Worker
Team: Early years and School Readiness
A vacancy for 1 full time Early Years Support Worker has arisen within the Early Years and School Readiness Team for a 1 year fixed term contract.
You will be expected to provide:
Practical and emotional support to children and their familiesPlan 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 5 neighbourhoods.
Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis with some evening and weekend that occasionally may be required.
Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.
About Bury
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 may be 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.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way
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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.
Next steps
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Samantha on s.mclaren@bury.gov.ukInterviews to be held Friday 28th March.
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