Early Years Practitioner

Grade 4 - £26,913--£29,214pa

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Early Years Practitioner to join our Early Help Service. We are looking for someone who is passionate about working with children and families to provide targeted, individual and group interventions in order to improve outcomes for children and families.

About the role
The primary purpose of this role is to work as part of the Children’s Centre team alongside colleagues within social care and other partners including health to ensure the effective delivery of child focused services and activities to support parents, carers and children aged from conception up to age 13. Our Early Help Service focuses on providing universal and targeted services to families in need of support, which includes the delivery of parenting programmes, activity groups and targeted interventions which focus on the parent/infant relationship. You’ll join a team consisting of a Children’s Centre Coordinator, a Senior Early Years Practitioner and a team of Early Years Practitioners.

The key objectives of the role are to:

Provide safe, high quality services for families accessing the Children’s Centres and community based settings.

Support families by improving family relationships and promoting positive and healthy outcomes for children with a focus on school readiness.

Plan and implement age-appropriate activities, following the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.

Work in partnership with parents/carers to increase parental confidence and capacity, supporting healthy attachment and encouraging containing and nurturing relationships that promote child development.

About you

As an Early Years Practitioner in our team you will work collaboratively with families, partners as well as colleagues, ensuring an approach that aims to achieve excellent outcomes, which in turn supports our children and families to lead happy, healthy lives.

Our services are diverse, and we have exciting and stimulating opportunities for everyone and various career pathways you can explore.

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The closing date for the receipt of applications is Monday 24th November 2023 however, interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early. You will be notified if your application has been successful, interview date to be scheduled.

If you would like to know further information, please do not hesitate to contact Helen Anfield, Children’s Centre Coordinator, helen.anfield@havering.gov.uk

Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770

Additional Information

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