Early Years Advisor

Kids Planet Day Nurseries; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in nursery care is seeking a dedicated Early Years Advisor to support quality improvement across its settings. The role involves assessing nursery quality, creating action plans for improvement, and collaborating with teams to implement new initiatives. The ideal candidate will have senior management experience in early years settings and a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education, along with the ability to travel and work flexibly across various locations.

Benefits

Pension plan

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Proven practical experience as a Nursery Manager.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience working at a senior level.
• Extensive knowledge of Safeguarding and Early Years legislation.

Responsibilities

• Assess quality across all settings and create action plans.
• Promote good practice and identify training needs.
• Collaborate with senior management to enhance curriculum.

Skills

Quality Improvement

Training

Multi-agency Working

Education

Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education

Job description

Kids Planet Day Nurseries provide the highest standard of nursery care and education across our settings within a unique environment in which children are actively encouraged to explore, learn and interact with others.

With the ongoing growth of Kids Planet, we are delighted to announce we are looking to grow our Early Years Advisory Team.

We are looking for a highly dedicated Early Years Advisor based in and around the South regions, with experience of managing and co-ordinating early years settings, with a proven record of enhancing quality. Our Early Years Advisors, lead and support continuous quality improvement across the Kids Planet group through monitoring and training, and are an integral part of our Senior Leadership team.

Early Years and Quality are broad terms and so this role is varied, fast paced and covers a wide variety of aspects.

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

Assessment of quality across all settings within the group

Creating and monitoring action plans that will promote continuous improvement, offering creative suggestions and solutions where required to support settings to achieve their full potential offering outstanding childcare

Identifying and promoting good practice models

Identifying training needs of the teams and supporting our internal training team to deliver in-house training

To work collaboratively with the senior management team to enhance the overall curriculum of settings and to be actively involved in supporting new initiatives, as and when necessary

To support and lead change within acquisition settings, following the Kids Planet Processes

Experience and knowledge required includes:

Proven practical experience as a Nursery Manager

Proven experience of co-ordinating and managing an early years setting

Proven experience of driving and supporting a setting to achieve outstanding outcomes

Extensive knowledge of legislation relating to Early Years

Knowledge of legislation relating to children with Additional Learning Needs.

Understanding of partnership working at operational and strategic levels

The ideal applicant will:

Hold at least a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education that is recognised in the UK.

Have a minimum of 3 years' experience working at a senior level.

Have experience of producing accurate and appropriately evidenced reporting against the EYFS and Ofsted Early Years Inspection Framework.

Possess extensive knowledge of Safeguarding.

Be able to demonstrate experience of multi-agency working and leading training.

Full, clean driving licence and use of a vehicle.

Multi-site management is desirable.

The role is field based but will require significant amounts of travel and occasional overnight stays away from home. The role holder is required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business; this will include some evening or weekend work to support improvement, for example, to deliver evening training sessions.

This role offers the successful candidate a competitive salary and pension whilst working within a highly professional team.

We are unable to offer any kind of visa sponsorship for this role.

Kids Planet is committed to equal opportunities for all. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our staff and children. Applications are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note, if you are successful in this role, background checks including online searches may be completed. This is keeping in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education policies.