Bath & North East Somerset Council Hiring for Senior Early Years Practitioner Job at Bath, England Full Time

Hours: 30 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Service Area: Children and Families Preventative Services

Department: Bright Start Children’s Centre Services

Do you passionately believe in providing early intervention support for children and families to improve their life chances? Bright Start Children’s Centre Services are looking to recruit a Senior Early Years Practitioner for 30 hours per week.

The role will require you to work across Bath and North East Somerset to support children and families to reach their full potential by leading children’s group. You will have an understanding and experience of the important role of early intervention, family support and safeguarding.

You will be based at Bath Children and Family Centre but will be required to travel to other Children Centre’s to deliver groups.

The purpose of this role is to:

Provide nurturing and children’s groups, family outreach services and adult-focussed groups supporting wellbeing to children aged 0-5 years, to enable children and their families to flourish and achieve their aspirations.

The post holder will be expected to:

• Work flexibly covering the BANES area
• Carry out work with families in a group and on a 1:1 basis
• Work collaboratively with parents, other departments within the council and partner agencies
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills
• Communicate with a wide range of diverse communities

Please see the job description and person specification for full details of the job role and expectations.

Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Jed Parsons, Children’s Centre Coordinator, by emailing [email protected] or telephone 07530 263398.

To apply

Please use the online application facility.

For further information on applying please see “Application Form Help” page on the Jobs website.

As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Interview Date: Wednesday 23rd November 2022.

Safeguarding Statement:

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.

As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.