A career that's life-changing

Early Years Worker

Location - Wednesbury, West Midlands

Salary - £15,839 fixed term until March 31st March 2021

Interviews will be held on 4th Feb 2020

How Action for Children works

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 370,000 children, young people and their families - but for every child who needs help to get help, there's plenty more to do. That's where you come in.

The Family Offer began in 2017 where Action for Children were commissioned by the Local Authority to provide a variety of services based at children's centres in four towns of Sandwell. The Family Support element of the services aims to achieve positive outcomes for children, young people and their families who have multiple and complex needs.

The Role

The Early Years Worker will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that works with children and families who have multiple and complex needs.

The early years worker will run courses that last for 6 weeks across Oldbury, Smethwick, Wednesbury and West Bromwich to a maximum of 8 families per session. You will be planning, supporting and running the sessions.

The hours consist of Tue 11-8pm, Wed 9-4.30pm and Thu 9-4.30pm. Tuesday evenings will consist of an Antenatal session where we shall provide training to facilitate this.

The difference

You'll significantly improve young people's lives:

Planning, observation and reflection of children and their learning

Working in a team providing high quality services for children
By providing direct support to parents and families with children with complex needs
By working collaboratively with families to achieve positive outcomes
By working in an integrated way as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team

The person

You'll need:

Experience working in an early year's child care setting or a setting working with children aged 0 to 5 years.
Level 2 in early years or equivalent and/or relevant experience
Experience of supporting or running early years sessions
Experience of planning early years sessions
A thorough current working knowledge of children's emotional, physical, psychological and educational developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
Working knowledge of particular requirements of children with special needs in terms of support, development and care.
Awareness and understanding of child protection and safeguarding issues for children aged 0 to 5 years.
Confident using digital systems to record and plan, observe and communicate with others.
Able to maintain records to comply with organisational expectations and national regulatory inspections, Ofsted/Care Inspectorate.
Be an effective communicator and listener across multiple age groups
Efficient, expressive and creative.
Solution focused
Driving licence and access to a car preferable as this role involves travel.

The rewards

Minimum 29 days' holiday (pro rata)

Flexible working, including maternity, paternity and adoption packages

Season ticket travel loans

Company pension scheme

Discounts at major high street retailers.

Plus, there's a lot more besides.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity.

Action for Children is committed to safer recruitment practices, designed to protect the welfare of the children and young people using our services.

If you meet all the criteria and would like to proceed with your application, you'll be redirected to an application form on our website which should only take around 5 minutes to complete. Please have your CV handy to upload. As this job involves working around children, there are some specific questions we need to ask you as part of your application process. Thanks for taking the time to apply and we wish you the best of luck! Please contact collette.fraser@actionforchildren.org.uk for more information.

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