Early Excellence Trainer

Your Coop are looking for a Continuous Improvement Manager to join our society. We are a unique multi-sector group operating in Food, Childcare, Travel, Post Office and Utilities, meaning you will get a breadth of experience in a collaborative and fast-moving organisation. No two days will ever be the same! At Your Coop, you will be part of a business that puts people at the heart of everything they do. What makes us different? The money you help us make is returned to our members and communities. We are a cooperative which means we share a third of our profits with our members and invest a third in our community support initiatives. In a profit-driven world, we are the difference. We are proud to be owned by our members, and we would love to be owned by you.

Responsibilities

• You will design, deliver, and evaluate engaging training modules to support colleague induction and development across the group, contributing to career development and progression.
• You will play a key role in supporting colleagues to develop their practice and provision using effective training, coaching, and mentoring techniques to foster continuous improvement and ensure that experiences and outcomes for children are of a consistently high standard.
• You will analyse trends to identify areas of development and create targeted and inspiring training packages which motivate colleagues to enhance quality learning experiences for children.
• Ensuring the Nursery brings to life the Little Pioneer parent and member experience, and service proposition providing our full range of LP and Society products and services.
• Being an ambassador for our brand and values promoting confidence in the quality of our colleagues' skills and knowledge, reflecting on the views of families, and using these as a catalyst for designing training packages.
• Deliver core and bespoke training and coaching in line with quality improvement plans helping colleagues to develop their provision to accelerate teaching and learning to the highest levels, thus creating a culture of excellence.
• Being a quality and training ambassador, you will adopt a 'hands-on approach' to upskilling colleagues and role-modeling expected values and behaviours in line with the EYFS, Ofsted requirements, observed trends and Little Pioneers Way pedagogy.
• Work closely with administrative support to manage the schedule of all learning activity and ensure the central record of training is up to date.
• Support Ofsted readiness by providing training to help colleagues understand the Ofsted expectations, assisting them in being prepared for their inspection.
• You will motivate an ethos of self-evaluation supporting colleagues to be able to identify their training needs and next steps in learning.
• Provide managers with training toolkits to deliver to their teams and for their colleagues to ever evolve in their continuous professional development.
• Effectively safeguard all statutory compliance within EYFS and Ofsted regulations and keeping confidential sensitive information.
• You will be passionate and self-motivated and committed to your own professional development.
• Keeping up to date with new thinking, changes in legislation and sector-wide trends.
• Being a trailblazer of industry best practice by sharing your expert childcare knowledge.
• Be a part of a culture where everyone plays as a team, can achieve their full potential, and thrives on feedback.

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years.
• Degree in Early Years/ EYTS and/or strong portfolio of continuous professional development desirable.
• Training qualifications and extensive experience of delivering training.
• Excellent knowledge of the EYFS learning & development and welfare requirements and an excellent understanding of the Ofsted Early Education Inspection Framework.
• Evidence of Right to Work in the UK.
• You will require a clear enhanced DBS and be required to join the DBS update service and renew this each year.
• A robust understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures and legislation.

Benefits

• 60% discount on your childcare fees.
• Save 20% on your food shopping expenses.
• Get up to £500 off your next holiday.
• Benefit from Wagestream - our financial wellbeing app.
• Earn paid volunteering hours to give back to your community.
• Access GroceryAid for dedicated colleague mental health support.
• Engage in full training and accredited development programmes.