Cambridgeshire County Council Early Years, Childcare and School Readiness Service.
Early Years and Childcare Business and Governance Adviser.
Salary: SO2 point 26 -28 £34834-£36648 per annum.
The post is full time (37 hours per week) and initially fixed term for 1 year.
About the role
The Early Years Business and Governance team works pro-actively with registered childcare providers to ensure they are meeting their statutory requirements regarding Ofsted, Employment, Early Years funding, and governance and management systems. The team also supports with future sustainability and extended provision. The team is not involved in supporting the quality of play and learning in childcare settings.
We are small friendly team within the wider Early Years, Childcare and School Readiness Service.
The post is full time (37 hours per week) and initially fixed term for 1 year.
What you will be doing
You will lead on systems for guidance, administration, audit and best practice for Early Years Funding in Cambridgeshire alongside generic Early Years Business and Governance support.
The role has a flexible working pattern to support both service delivery and your home/work life balance and will involve some travel to settings, home working and office-based working from the principal base at Sunley House, Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB23 3AB with occasional travel to other Cambridgeshire County Council offices.
About you
We are seeking a skilled, organised, and experienced person qualified to Level 3 equivalent or above in Early Years and Childcare and/or Business administration/ management systems. You should also have a working knowledge and experience of a range of Early Years and childcare settings. Full details can be found in the job description and person specification. Please ensure you refer to the job description and person specification when completing your application form.
Applications close on Tuesday 30 April 2024.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 8 May 2024.
For further information about the role, please contact:
Alison.morris@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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