Early Years and Family Educator

Early Years Alliance; Horncastle; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A community-focused charity is seeking flexible Early Years and Family Educators to join their team. The role involves providing high-quality educational sessions to support child development and engage parents in learning. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and strong communication skills. This position requires collaboration with various agencies to deliver seamless support to families. A comprehensive induction and training package will be provided, along with mileage compensation. The role is flexible with hours as required.

Benefits

28 pro-rata days annual leave

Employer and employee contribution pension scheme

Access to learning and development opportunities

Comprehensive induction and training support

Qualifications

• NVQ 2 in Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or a health and social care degree level with relevant early years and childcare modules, or Early Years Teacher Status.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of child development, EYFS and how children learn through play, talk and discovery.
• Proven effective communication skills – able to communicate effectively in person and in writing, with professionals, staff, early help and social care teams and other organisations.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality educational and fun sessions for children in their early years and families.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate sessions and activities to engage parents in their children's learning.
• Track progress of vulnerable and identified children in partnership with other early years settings.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Understanding of child development

Multi-agency collaboration

Knowledge of EYFS

Education

NVQ 2 in Early Years Care and Education or equivalent

Health and social care degree with relevant modules

Early Years Teacher Status

Job description

About The Role

We are currently recruiting to expand our team of flexible Early Years and Family Educators working as part of the Early Years and Family Service in Boston, South Holland, East Lindsey, West Lindsey, North and South Kesteven and Lincoln.

Do you have the passion and commitment to make a difference to a family’s life?

You would be joining an experienced and dedicated team of early years and family educators, working across Lincolnshire children’s centres and local communities to deliver the new Early Years and Family Service, supporting all children to have the best start in life. This is an exciting opportunity to work with children and families providing high quality fun and educational sessions, while supporting child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy and working as part of an integrated early years team. The Early Years Alliance would provide you with exciting training and the opportunity to learn new skills and experiences to support your professional development.

Benefits

• 28 pro-rata days annual leave
• employer and employee contribution pension scheme
• regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities.
• A comprehensive induction and training support package will be provided to the successful candidate.

Main duties

• To provide high-quality educational and fun sessions for children in their early years and their families to support child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate all sessions and activities to encourage the engagement of parents in their children’s learning, development and wellbeing in their early years to have the greatest opportunity of reaching or exceeding their expected level of development and be ready for school.
• To track the progress of vulnerable and identified children who are delayed with their development, in partnership with other early years settings the child may be attending and in accordance with the EYFS Framework.
• To work as part of an integrated early years team alongside other professionals so families can access seamless support to meet their different needs within their local communities, and support parents to access effective antenatal and postnatal care through partnership working with health providers.
• To support parents/carers of Lincolnshire children to access their child’s Healthy Child Programme (HCP) mandated checks and support their child’s physical and emotional health and wellbeing, through health promotion and partnership working with the Children’s Health 0-19 Service.

Essential criteria

• NVQ 2 in Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or a health and social care degree level with relevant early years and childcare modules, or Early Years Teacher Status.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of child development, EYFS and how children learn through play, talk and discovery.
• Proven effective communication skills – able to communicate effectively in person and in writing, with professionals, staff, early help and social care teams and other organisations.
• Experience of a successful multi‑agency approach with professionals, early help teams, social care teams and other early years settings.
• Knowledge of the aims, objectives and ethos of Children’s Centres and other national developments of services for children aged 0-5 years.

A comprehensive induction and support package will be provided to the successful candidate.

Mileage from an agreed base is paid at 35p per mile.

Hours per week

As and when required

Weeks per year

52

Virtual interview date

To be confirmed

Please note our virtual interviews take place via Microsoft Teams, you may need to download this prior to your interview.

All successful applicants will be required to register and subscribe with the DBS Update Service (if you have not already done so) and undertake a new enhanced disclosure and barring check (even if you have an existing DBS Certificate).

About The Service

The Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. It is a requirement of all staff that they share this commitment and follow the prescribed policy and procedures to continuously promote a culture of safeguarding across the whole organisation.

The charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and equal opportunities in employment.