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SalaryAbout Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About the role
Working in Haringey is all about making a difference to people’s everyday lives, making the environment in which they live a better place, and giving them the tools they need to improve their own lives and play an active role in the community.
We are determined to rise to the challenge and find new ways to ensure that our residents enjoy the best opportunities in life – through excellent education, training, access to facilities and community empowerment. Working at Haringey gives you the opportunity to play a part in meeting those ambitions on behalf of everyone who calls the borough their home.
We are excited to be recruiting a new Wraparound Care Engagement Officer to lead the roll out of the new Wraparound programme in Haringey.
The government’s ambition is that by 2026, all parents and carers of primary school-aged children who need it will be able to access term time childcare in their local area from 8am-6pm, so that parents can access employment and improve labour market participation.
This role will involve working in a collaborative manner with teams across the local authority, schools, families, childcare providers (including private providers, childminders, community and voluntary organisations and early years settings) to assess supply and demand and expand Wraparound Childcare provision that is accessible to children and families, including those with SEND.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 30 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
About you
You will be able to inspire, influence, and motivate head teachers, governors, managers, lead partners, senior education leaders and early years/childcare practitioners. You will be able to work to engage and work in partnership with providers to review current provision and explore possible changes to the ‘business model’ to meet community needs. You will have had experience of working with children and young people. You will be innovative, creative and solution focused and be able to offer support and advice to providers delivering Wraparound Childcare. You will be able to update and maintain records and processes and have a good knowledge of IT.
About the team
Our Childcare Sufficiency Team ensures that there are sufficient childcare places across the local authority. This experienced team are highly regarded in Haringey and sit in the wider Early Years Advisory Team which has strategic oversight of early years priorities and development in Haringey.
