Senior Early Years Practitioner

Service Care Solutions

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!
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