Early Years Improvement Advisor

Children & Families

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: 42498-46344 per annum (pro rata for part time)

Working Hours:37 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 6th July 2025

Interview Date(s): 17^th July 2025

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced well organised motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Early Years Inclusion and Childcare Service as an Early Years Improvement Advisor. Part time applications will also be considered. Please state this in your application

About the Role

• Develop and support high quality early years provision across the childcare sector
• Provide advice guidance and training as set out in the local authoritys statutory duty to ensure high quality provision for pre-schools day nurseries and childminders who are judged less than good by Ofsted
• Champion the needs of children particularly the most disadvantaged ensuring that all children and their families are able to access high quality early education and childcare
• Offer advice and guidance regarding children with SEND. Supporting providers to use the graduated approach to assess plan do review. Signposting to relevant agencies for further support.
• Lead and implement strategies to enable providers to embed equality and diversity and the principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) into their practice
• Implement new and existing initiatives and projects as directed
• Work closely with other internal local authority services and external partners
• Disseminate key safeguarding messages and policies with regard to expectations and local procedures and share information with providers and other stakeholders to ensure key safeguarding competencies are embedded in practice.

The nature of the work will require a flexible approach to working including out-of-hours and an ability and willingness to travel to various locations.

About You

Please refer to these 7 points when making your application giving examples as evidence of how you meet them

To apply for this post you must:

• Hold a relevant level 6 qualification i.e. qualified teacher Early Years Professional with outstanding early years practice in the early years sector or a school
• Have an excellent understanding of statutory duties and learning relating to the EYFS phase and Early Years SEND code of practice
• Have experience of observing and evaluating quality learning and providing feedback as part of the early years improvement processes
• Have a good understanding of equality and diversity and how this should be promoted for the children of Leicestershire
• Have effective presentation skills which include good communication skills both written and oral. To be assertive confident and sensitive to the needs of others and be able to cope with pressure
• Have the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships and professional partnerships with people from all backgrounds with the ability to enthuse and motivate others where lived experiences of diverse backgrounds can be shared and celebrated

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.

We look forward to receiving and reading your application form.

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 term-time working part-time 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:

Jane McNee Early Years Senior Improvement Advisor

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Telephone:

Or

Jennie Bainbridge Early Years Improvement Team Manager

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Telephone:

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.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

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