Early Years Safeguarding and Welfare Assistant
Early Years Safeguarding and Welfare Assistant
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Job Description
The Service & Team:
The Early Years Service as part of the Education Effectiveness Service sits in Education and Community Health Directorate
The Role:
The role is a part time position (3 days a week) and is based in Mid Cornwall with an office base in Bodmin. The role supports Early Years providers (Nurseries pre-schools and Childminders) to understand and have compliance with the statutory framework ( Early Years Foundation Stage ) for safeguarding and welfare. The role sits within the Early Years Service team working alongside the rest of the team and includes supporting the sector through visits phone calls and training delivery. The role requires the candidate to drive to settings within the mid area of Cornwall to provide support guidance and information to setting managers.
This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
The role involves working 3 days a week.
What youll need to succeed:
The role requires the candidate to have an Early Years and Childcare Qualification at Level 3
Sound working knowledge of the early years legal requirements as documented in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (2024)
Experience of working in early years within the Private Voluntary and Independent (PVI) sector
Skills in supporting guiding and providing information to others in order to help them to develop professionally and meet statutory requirements in the early years.
Effective communication skills including use of phone e mails electronic calls (Teams/Zoom)
Effective IT skills in order to record and document work
Experience of working as part of a team
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What youll get in return:
Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
a competitive salary.
a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Stephanie Wright on
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
Employment Type
Full-Time
