Family Engagement Practitioner

Early Years Scotland; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Years Scotland is seeking Family Engagement Practitioners in Glasgow to enhance parental engagement and support family well-being through diverse community programs. The role involves developing and evaluating early years health programs while promoting vital parental skills in a nurturing environment.

Benefits

25 days Annual Leave in the first year, rising to 30 days

12 public holidays per annum

Professional learning and experience opportunities

Qualifications

• Qualifications consistent with registering as a Practitioner with SSSC are required.
• Additional ELC qualifications are welcomed.
• PVG Scheme membership will be needed.

Responsibilities

• Deliver health programs to parents.
• Conduct Stay Play and Learn sessions.
• Work in various locations delivering community programs.

Skills

Positive attachments

Early literacy skills

Communication skills

Healthy living approaches

Education

HNC Childhood Practice at SCQF Level 7

SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) at SCQF Level 7

Job description

Salary: £25,685 - £0 per year pro-rata to hours worked

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time, Part Time

Hours: 35 hours per week

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT PRACTITIONER

Early Years Scotland are looking for experienced Family Engagement Practitioners to join our amazing staff team delivering our services in Glasgow and surrounding areas.

Family Engagement Practitioners (FEPs) with Early Years Scotland (EYS) have a unique, exciting role within the early years sector. An EYS Family Engagement Practitioner has responsibility for providing support and promoting parental engagement and a whole family wellbeing service through the adoption of a multi-agency collaborative approach.

Our EYS staff team work together with children and families on a continual basis, across a variety of settings within communities with a focus on enriching and enhancing parental skills and capacity to improve, strengthen and maximise:

· positive attachments and relationships between parents/carers and children

· early literacy and communication skills

· shared interactions and approaches to learning

· cost-free and enriching and nurturing home learning environments

· healthy living approaches

You will be fully involved in shaping, developing, and evaluating the early years health programmes and innovative shared play and learning sessions you deliver.

A typical week’s activity could consist of:

· delivering a health programme to parents

· delivering Stay Play and Learn sessions incorporating health-based learning experiences.

· Working in various locations delivering community programmes.

EYS will likewise invest in you, providing regular and supported professional learning and experience opportunities that will enhance your career profile, develop your skills and knowledge in creative and unique ways and inspire your practice in new and exciting ways!

· 35 and 25 hours per week over 52 weeks per annum (other part-time contracts may be available, please note this on your application when applying).

· £25,685 FTE which is point 24 on scale 24-26

· 25 days Annual Leave in the first year rising to 30 days thereafter

· 12 public holidays per annum

Salary, allowances and entitlements are pro-rata to hours worked.

Applicants’ qualifications must be consistent with those required to register as a Practitioner with SSSC, e.g:

· HNC Childhood Practice at SCQF Level 7

· SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) at SCQF Level 7 .

· Additional ELC qualifications welcomed.

PVG Scheme membership will be required.

Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 30th June 2025

Full post details and application pack are available on the Early Years Scotland website at https://earlyyearsscotland.org/about-us/job-vacancies . Please do not send CVs as only completed Early Years Scotland application forms will be considered.

Early Years Scotland is an Equal Opportunities Employer

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