Saturday Flexible Early Years and Family Support Assistant

We are currently recruiting for a new and exciting position of a Saturday Flexible Early Years and Family Support Assistant working across Lincolnshire. Do you have the passion and commitment to make a difference to a family’s life? You would be joining an experienced and dedicated team of early years and family educators, working across Lincolnshire children’s centres and local communities to deliver the new Early Years and Family Service, supporting all children to have the best start in life.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with children and families providing 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 would provide you with exciting training and the opportunity to learn new skills and experiences to support your professional development.

• 28 pro-rata days annual leave
• Employer and employee contribution pension scheme
• Regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities
• A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well-being

Main duties of the role:

• To work across delivery sites across Lincolnshire on a Saturday, providing essential Early Years sessions to maintain consistent provision of the Early Years & Family Service Contract.
• To provide high-quality educational and fun sessions 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 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.
• To work 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.
• A commitment to continuing professional development.
• Experience of working with families and children aged 0-5 years.
• Effective communication skills – able to communicate effectively in person and in writing, with service users, professionals, staff, early help and social care teams and other organisations.
• Understanding of a successful multi-agency approach with professionals, early help teams, social care teams and other early years settings.
• Knowledge of the aims, objectives and ethos of Children’s Centres and other national developments of services for children aged 0-5 years.
• Good understanding and knowledge of Safeguarding children and young people and relevant safeguarding processes and procedures.
• NVQ 2 Early Years Care and Education or equivalent qualification, or a health and social care degree level with relevant early years and childcare modules.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of child development, EYFS and how children learn through play, talk and discovery.

Allowances: Mileage at 35p per mile from an agreed base. Hours: As and When Required. All successful applicants will be required to register and subscribe with the DBS Update Service (if you have not already done so) and undertake a new enhanced disclosure and barring check (even if you have an existing DBS Certificate).

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.