Your New Organisation:
Southend City Council have a great opportunity for a person centred, solution orientated and well organised individual to join the School Performance and Provision Service team, who are committed to providing a first-class service to the educational settings and services across Southend.
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority employing around 1,800 staff working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend. Southend itself is a vibrant place to live and work, offering coastal living alongside excellent and fast transport links into London. The team is committed to working together with education settings, services, and partner agencies to ensure that outcomes are met.
Your new role:
We are looking for an Early Years and Childcare Improvement Manager to join the Early years & childcare service in a full time and permanent contract. This role is offered on a hybrid working pattern; a blendof working from home, at the office and visits to educational settings and partner agencies.
As an Early Years and Childcare Improvement Manager, you will provide expert advice and guidance on all aspects of early learning across the maintained and private, voluntary and independent sectors, ensuring high quality teaching. You will also provide expert, responsive information, advice, guidance and support to all providers on the EYFS curriculum, 7 areas of learning, planning, assessment, leadership and management to ensure highly effective pedagogy.
As an Early Years and Childcare Improvement Manager, you will coordinate and lead forums and leaders and mangers meetings, including for EYFS leads in schools. You will have line management responsibility for staff in the Early Years Childcare and Improvement team, inspiring staff with a ‘quality’ approach towards everything they do and a philosophy of ‘continuous improvement’.
To meet the demands of this role, occasional evening and Saturday working is required.
What you'll need to succeed:
To be successful in this role, you will need to be educated to degree level in an appropriate field and possess Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
It is essential that you have an in-depth Knowledge of the EYFS, characteristics of effective learning and the Ofsted cycle and framework Thorough knowledge of observation, tracking and assessment systems, against national expectations. Experience of delivering evidence-based approaches to achieve improved outcomes for the most vulnerable children within EY provision is essential for the role. It is crucial that you have knowledge of key national education and Early Years policy, Legislation, guidance and new initiatives.
You will be out and about on visits in the borough, so a full and clean driving license is essential.
What you'll get in return:
When joining the council, you will enjoy a range of benefits including hybrid working, salary car sacrifice scheme, 25 days annual leave (in a full-time contract, excluding bank holidays) and excellent training and development opportunities. A full list of benefits provided by Southend-on-Sea City Council can be viewed on the "Why Work for us?’’ tab.
What you need to do now:
If you are interested in this role, please click 'apply online' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.
If you would like a copy of either the Job Description or Person Specification please click here
The Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief. Southend-on-Sea city council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.
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