Early Years Lead

About The Role

Do you have the passion and commitment to make a difference to a family with children aged 0-5 years?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Business Development projects team as an Early Years Lead.

This role will work as part of a small team to facilitate high quality Stay and Play sessions as part of Nottingham City Family Hub offer from Meadows and Hyson Green Family Hubs sites.

You will work with a small supportive team and be involved in planning and facilitating two high quality Stay and Play sessions for families with children aged 0-5 years and supporting all children to have the best start in life, while supporting child development, learning through play and working as part of an integrated team.

The successful candidate will have experience in working with families and children aged 0-5 years old and knowledge of the Family Hub offer.

The Early Years Alliance would provide you with a comprehensive and exciting induction and training package, with the opportunity to learn new skills and experiences to support your professional development.

Benefits

• A comprehensive induction and training support package will be provided to the successful candidate.
• 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.
• Access to our Employee Assistant Programme (EAP), which includes 24/7 helpline access, dedicated managers helpline, confidential counselling sessions delivered by accredited specialists, legal, debt and life management advice, discounts, and wellbeing content plus resources.
• Savings of up to 25% on O2 Refresh Airtime Plan on any new phone or tablets
• A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well being

Main duties of the role

• To deliver high quality EYFS-focused sessions for children and their families in children’s centres, outreach venues and other delivery sites including schools, as directed by the line manager, with a particular focus on the prime areas of learning

• To understand and work to the EYFS to support children’s learning and development.To ensure that the environment and activities are stimulating and promotes parental involvement and understanding of learning through play.

• To be responsible for the day to day management of the session in line with the Alliance’s unregistered policies and procedures and EYFS welfare requirements. To ensure that the environment, including equipment offered, is clean, safe and secure and maintained to a good hygiene standard.To maintain a high level of safety during the session and to ensure that thorough risk assessments are in place in line with the Alliance’s policies and procedures.

• To ensure that all sessions are inclusive, welcoming and are appropriately planned in relation to the stage of the children’s development.

• To be the designated person for safeguarding during the session responding to safeguarding concerns in accordance to the Alliances safeguarding procedures.

Essential criteria

• Possess a childcare qualification at Level 3 or above, or other relevant qualification

• Demonstrate significant experience of delivering and managing children and family sessions such as toddler group, drop-in, crèche, family learning session, nursery, pre-school or other relevant setting.

• Demonstrate a good understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), child development and how young children learn through play, talk and discovery, both indoors and outdoors.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits to children of healthy lifestyles and how musical opportunities can promote communication and language skills.

• Demonstrate an ability to deliver to the EYFS welfare requirements to provide a safe, stimulating learning environment, appropriate to all the ages and stages of the children attending.

This post is fixed term until March 2026 Hours per week: 10 Weeks per year: 52 Virtual interview date: TBC Please note our virtual interviews take place via Microsoft Teams, you may need to download this prior to your interview.

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).

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.