Senior Advisor Quality Assurance

Cambridge County Council; Papworth Everard; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Are you passionate about Early Years Education and Childcare with a background in leadership and management?

Are you looking for an opportunity to further develop your skills and experience in Early Years Education, Childcare and leadership.

Come and join our Early Years Childcare and School Readiness Service where you will lead our team to deliver support services to settings and schools to enable them to deliver high quality early years provision for Cambridgeshire's youngest children.

Our team plays a crucial role in supporting settings and schools to be inclusive, to deliver high quality provision. This role fosters relationships with our partners to further support this.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Annette Brooker, Head of Early Years, Childcare and School Readiness Service([e-mail])

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

As a key member of the Early Years Education and Childcare Service senior management team you will;

• lead and manage a team of managers and advisers responsible for supporting quality assurance, continued professional development and support for vulnerable groups.
• drive the development of integrated practice through multi agency and partnerships with a view to achieving quality early years and childcare provision and improving outcomes for all with a focus on inclusion and school readiness.
• provide compliance with local and national policy, within a local context, with regard to Early Years and Childcare provision, EY SEND Support and improving outcomes.
• work collaboratively, and in partnership with other professionals to ensure a coordinated multi agency approach that delivers quality early years and childcare places in Cambridgeshire

Please see attached Job description

About you

We are seeking a dynamic early years specialist and leader who will lead our Quality Improvement Team, Qualifications Centre, Membership Services, Home Learning and Communications workstreams. Reporting to the Head of Service and working as part of a dynamic management team you will be passionate about how young children thrive and evidence exemplary leadership skills. This is a great opportunity to shape our offer in line with recent national changes and a chance to develop your skills and experience of council leadership.

Please see attached person specification

Interviews for this role will be held in person on the 21st of May 2025.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers