Senior Early Years Practitioner

 Barnsley Council Children's services are seeking to recruit a Senior Early Years Practitioner to work with children and their families alongside the social workers in the team.
Duties of the role will include:

• Lead and model high-quality early years practice within the setting, supporting staff development and maintaining a safe, stimulating and inclusive learning environment.
• Oversee the planning and delivery of play-based educational activities tailored to children’s individual interests, development and learning needs.
• Support children’s care, wellbeing and independence through effective supervision, safeguarding and the promotion of health, safety and hygiene standards.
• Build positive partnerships with parents, carers and multi-agency professionals to support children’s development and deliver integrated family services.
• Maintain accurate records, contribute to quality improvement and self-evaluation processes and ensure compliance with safeguarding, data protection and early years legislation and policies.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of working with children and their families
• Enhanced DBS check
• NVQ level 3 Early years qualification

The role is a temporary, full time position for an initial period of 3 months with a view to this being extended on a rolling basis and is offering a pay rate of £18.35ph (£23.86 per hour via an umbrella company).
The benefits of working with Eilidh at Service Care Solutions:

• You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of social work
• We are a nationwide supplier of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities which means we have a wide variety of exclusive roles based all over the country
• We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
• We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a week

If you think you know someone who would be ideal for this role and they are placed in the job you will then receive a £75 bonus for referrals!