Lead Early Years and Family Educator

About The Role

We are currently recruiting for a new and exciting position of a Lead Early Years and Family Educator (Targeted Outreach & MiR) working across Lincolnshire Children Centres leading on Bespoke Targeted outreach work and Making it Real as part of the Family Hub development.

Do you have the passion and commitment to make a difference to a family’s life?

This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced and dedicated team of Lead Early Years and Family Educators working across Lincolnshire children’s centres and local communities to deliver the new Targeted Outreach Work under the Early Years and Family Service, supporting identified children to have the best start in life and reach their expected Good Levels of Development at the end of Reception. This is an exciting opportunity to work with families.

You will work in partnership to provide high quality, fun and educational sessions, while supporting child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy, and working as part of an integrated early years team. The Early Years Alliance will provide you with exciting training and the opportunity to learn new skills and experiences to support your professional development.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time employees
• Additional annual leave for long service
• Enhanced sickness pay.
• Employer and employee contribution pension scheme
• Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well-being.
• Regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities
• A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
• A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well-being.
• Mileage allowance at 40p per mile from an agreed base /home based

Main Duties

• To provide high quality targeted outreach support to identified families in the home and local communities. Identified families will be shared from LCC from key priority groups:-
  • Families who do not engage in the Family Hubb/Children’s Centre offer
  • Children at risk of not achieving Good Levels of Development
  • Males
  • Summer born children
  • SEND
  • FSM
  • Children not accessing their Early Years Entitlement
  • Children with no completed ASQ3
  • Other identified groups such as low reception or school attendance up to 8 years
• To identify barriers/challenges for families accessing the Family Hub/Children’s Centres offer and put in place an action plan for these families to facilitate their engagement.
• Identify families who will not engage with the Targeted Outreach Support and share this information with Lincolnshire County Council.
• To provide evidenced based taster programmes of Making it Real, PEEP Incredible Years and any other high-quality educational and fun sessions/programmes for children in their early years and their families to support child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy, to support children being ready for school and reaching Good Levels of Development.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate all sessions and activities to encourage the engagement of parents in their children’s learning, development and wellbeing in their early years to have the greatest opportunity of reaching or exceeding their expected level of development and be ready for school.
• Be knowledgeable of the Best Start in Life Strategy and Healthy Babies, the Family Hub/Children’s Centre offer so that families can be connected to the appropriate support. To work within a multiagency environment to fully support parents and children.
• To track the progress of vulnerable and identified children who are delayed with their development, in partnership with other early years settings the child may be attending and in accordance with the EYFS Framework, working as part of an integrated early years team alongside other professionals so families can access seamless support to meet their different needs within their local communities and support parents to access effective antenatal and postnatal care through partnership working with health providers.
• To co‑coordinate staff to support local events, promotional work and marketing of services, ensuring appropriate connecting arrangements are followed including the marketing of the children’s centre offer, raising awareness of the two-, three- and four-year-old early years entitlements to eligible families and supporting eligible families with their applications where necessary.
• To complete relevant forms, registers, and documentation to meet deadlines providing data and information to support the completion of monthly, quarterly and annual performance reports and complete case studies.
• To visit families in their homes, building their confidence and knowledge to support the home learning environment.
• To connect and refer families to other appropriate agencies and services where it is identified as a need and record uptake of vulnerable families signposted or referred to other services. This may include acting as a Lead Professional and the completion of Early Help Assessments (EHAs) where required.
• To be responsible for ensuring any health and safety checks and risk assessments are undertaken for delivery in outreach venues and homes or when keyholding within centres, ensuring that any issues/incidents associated with service delivery are recorded and reported following and adhering to all appropriate Health and Safety, Food Hygiene and Food Standards policies and procedures.
• To understand and comply with the Early Years Alliance and Lincolnshire County Council Children’s Services policies and procedures, including health and safety, and child protection, in a manner that promotes equality of opportunity and access, and fosters anti-discriminatory practice. Carrying out all duties and responsibilities in compliance with the policies and procedures of the Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children’s Board.
• To maintain confidentiality and keep accurate up to date records within data protection guidelines.
• To complete all relevant Alliance training and LSCP training and attend in-service training and team days across Lincolnshire.
• To work flexibly to enable the service to be responsive to the developing needs of the service users Monday - Saturday 9am-5pm including at times some evenings and weekends as directed by the line manager.

Essential Criteria

• NVQ 3 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or a health and social care degree level with relevant early years and childcare modules, or Early years Teacher Status.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of child development, EYFS and how children learn through play.
• Experience of working with families to provide an effective home learning environment.
• Proven effective communication skills – able to communicate effectively in person and in writing, with professionals, staff, early help and social care teams and other organisations.
• Experience of a successful multi-agency approach with professionals, early help teams, social care teams and other early years settings.

This post is fixed term until 31st March 2028 Hours per week: 35 Weeks per year: 52 Advert closing date: 19th October 2026 Interview date: 22nd October 2026

This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and does require a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Applicants must be prepared to disclose any convictions they may have and any orders which have been made against them. The level of this check is enhanced.

About The Service

The Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. It is a requirement of all staff that they share this commitment and follow the prescribed policy and procedures to continuously promote a culture of safeguarding across the whole organisation.

The charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and equal opportunities in employment.

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