Senior Childcare Improvement Sufficiency Officer (Internal Applicants Only)

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: per annum (prorata for parttime)

Working Hours:22.2 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 14th May 2025

Interview Date(s): 27th May 2025

About the Role

An opportunity has arisen for a well organised motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Early Years Inclusion and Childcare Service as a Senior Childcare Improvement Sufficiency Officer

The post of Senior Childcare Improvement Sufficiency Officer will allow you the opportunity to lead and join a highly skilled enthusiastic team. We work with those wishing to join the Early Years sector and wrap around provision to ensure they offer high quality provision

Job purpose:

• To line manage and coordinate the work of the Childcare Improvement Sufficiency Officers
• To be responsive to new government initiatives to support 414 age range
• To lead on securing enough childcare places to meet parental demand and for those children who have additional needs in out of school and wraparound provision
• To monitor and challenge out of school providers to ensure that the provision for the 414 age range is of high quality
• To ensure those registered for Holiday Activity Food programme offer high quality schemes and are compliant with the Ofsted welfare requirements
• To work closely with other internal local authority and external partners
• To coordinate and monitor support for all those providers who are wishing to register with Ofsted and ensure newly Ofsted registered childcare providers are ready for their first inspection.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

About You

To apply for this post you must:

• To have a relevant level6 qualification i.e. qualified teacher Early YearsProfessional or equivalent experience and ability
• Outstanding early years practice in the early years sector or an out of school withexperience of observing and evaluating the quality learning and providing feedback to staff
• Excellent understanding of: learning relating to the Early Years Foundation Stage phase with a working knowledge of the EYFS and its key principles and objectives; the skills knowledge and experience required to support out of school settings
• To have good knowledge of the early years SEND code of practice andhave extensive knowledge of the legal requirements of the EYFS and other legislation that is required for providers to become registered
• Willingness to travel to various locations to support providers across the county
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to enthuse and motivate others develop and maintain good working relationships and professional partnerships with people from all backgrounds
• To be an active listener to gain trust and respect from those you work with and have excellent problemsolving skills working within a team

Our main aim is to improve outcomes for children of Leicestershire. If you are successful you will be supported by Managers to be creative and solution focused as well as having access to a variety of professional development opportunities. People who work in our service say that we are a caring approachable friendly service who work well together and with other professionals. Staff are made to feel valued and that they are making a difference.

As Children and Family department we are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department. We will strive to create a safe compassionate environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust respect hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity by nurturing connections through relationships making a deliberate effort to know and understand people.

We have an Inclusion and Diversity working party that meets regularly and the local authority has other supportive groups where you will have the opportunity to learn and connect with others.

We operate on a fully inclusive employment policy and therefore welcome without exceptions candidates who have protected characteristics. Our one prerequisite is that you are the best at what you do.

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Jo Fisher Team Manager

Telephone:

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

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