ACE Early years practitioner and care coordinator

jobs24.co.uk; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant and inclusive team dedicated to transforming lives in the community. This role as an early years practitioner and care coordinator offers the chance to lead a nurturing creche, support families, and deliver impactful programs focused on mental health and well-being. You will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, utilizing your skills to foster resilience and provide trauma-sensitive care. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Level 3 Childcare qualification is essential for this role.
• Experience in trauma-sensitive approaches and early childhood education is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a quality creche provision sensitive to diverse needs.
• Work with families to support their understanding of child development.
• Implement safeguarding procedures and manage risk effectively.

Skills

Childcare qualification (level 3)

Trauma-sensitive care

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Understanding of adverse childhood experiences

Teamwork

Education

Level 3 Childcare qualification

Job description

As a dedicated professional with a level 3 Childcare qualification looking for an exciting opportunity to guide and inspire individuals on their journey to a happier, healthier lifestyle? As a creative, nurturing, trauma-sensitive childcare professional with the motivation to lead the provision of a safe, stimulating creche. Alongside supporting parents, this may be the job for you. Our team is part of a vibrant and inclusive work environment dedicated to doing the best for Sefton residents. Successful applicants will join South Sefton Primary Care Network's Mental Health Hub, with the right skills and values to be an exceptional early year's practitioner and care coordinator. Leading on and developing a nurturing, safe and stimulating creche modelling a trauma sensitivity, working across a range of community sites. If you are passionate about transforming lives and making a real impact on people's health and well-being, this is an exciting opportunity to work with primary care to engage and support families living in Bootle, Seaforth, Litherland, Crosby, and Maghull.

As an ACE early years practitioner and care coordinator you will work as part of the ACE health and wellbeing team to champion and deliver the adult ACE's recovery toolkit programme. Using creative activities and group work, providing psycho education and pro-social modelling to develop participants' resilience giving them the opportunity to experience the healing of relational support.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and developing quality Creche provision sensitive to diverse needs of parents and children affected by adverse childhood experiences.
• Working in partnership with families to support parental understanding of their role in their child's development, modelling Trauma-sensitive, Nurturing, high-quality Early education within the Creche.
• Identify levels of risk, vulnerability, and needs and a proven ability to recognise and manage risk.
• Provide a trauma-sensitive, empowering person-centred approach.
• Sensitively challenge children, families, and individuals.
• Implement safeguarding procedures and the escalation policy.
• Recognise factors impacting families such as domestic violence, abuse, mental health difficulties, substance misuse, poverty, early years development, finance, and housing issues.
• Work well in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Organisation and time management including planning, prioritising, preparation, follow-up, and record-keeping.
• Ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and security to safeguard all personal identifiable information.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to interact professionally with people from diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Preparing resources for Groups and Creche.

South Sefton PCN is a large Primary Care Network, covering the four localities in south Sefton with a population of around 155,000 residents. PCNs are groups of GP practices working with a wide range of partners to improve the health of their population. Key to this purpose is strengthening general practice provision through working together, where it makes sense to do so and working as part of integrated care teams which work collaboratively for and with local people in each locality. South Sefton PCN Mental Health Hub provides proactive Primary care level mental health and psychological support to residents via the Associate Psychological practitioner offer, alongside empowering resilience-building support, Psycho education, and coaching both group and 1:1 via the ACE health and wellbeing team offer.