Swyddi ar lein
Flying Start Childcare Officer
£22,571 - £24,920 a year | Temporary 31/03/2023
- Reference:
- 22-23059
- Job title:
- Flying Start Childcare Officer
- Directorate:
- Children and Supporting Families
- Service:
- Early Years Unit
- Closing date:
- 01/09/2022 10:00
- Job type/Hours:
- Temporary | 31/03/2023 | 37 Hour
- Salary:
- £22,571 - £24,920 a year
- Pay Scale:
- S1
- Location(s):
- Tŷ Cegin, Maesgeirchen, Bangor
Details
Job Advertisement
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this [Information Pack]
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.
(Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)
For further information about this post please contact Lowri Gwyndaf Jones on 01248 352 436
Interview date to be confirmed.
Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel: 01286 679076
E-Mail: Swyddi@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 01.09.2022
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.
Person Specification
Personal attributes
Essential
•Ability to work and mix easily with people. Ability to deal with people confidently, calmly and courteously.
•Able to build good working relationships with colleagues within the field.
•Ability to work under pressure and as part of a team.
•A neat and organized person who can prioritize work as required and show initiative
•Ability to present accurate and tidy work on a regular basis
Desirable
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Qualifications and relevant training
Essential
•NVQ3 in a relevant or equivalent qualification
•3 GCSEs (grade A-C including English and Welsh)
Desirable
•Data Protection
•ECDL or equivalent in computer use and interpretation.
•NVQ5 in a relevant or equivalent qualification
Relevant experience
Essential
•Experience of communicating with individuals and groups at a broad level;
•Experience of planning and completing formal and informal research.
•Experience of collecting, analysing and presenting data and information.
•Experience of maintaining administrative systems in an office.
•Experience of liaising effectively with a range of individuals and other partners
Desirable
•Experience of presenting information to meetings
•Experience of working in a childcare or education setting
Skills and specialist knowledge
Essential
•Good and robust communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with people and respect the need for confidentiality.
•Excellent customer care skills
•Organizational and prioritization skills
•Presentation skills
•Good computer skills - use of Windows program (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook)
•Use of a car and a full current driving license.
Desirable
•Knowledge of the Childcare and Early Years Education sector
Language requirements
Essential
Listening and Speaking - Higher Level
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.Able to give a pre-prepared presentation and respond to any comments and questions on it in Welsh or English.
Reading and Understanding - Higher Level
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.Able to gather information from various sources such as letters, reports, articles through the medium of Welsh and English in order to fulfil the post.
Writing - Higher Level
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).
Job Description
Purpose of the post
•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
•The post-holder will need to carry out the duties in relation to ensuring that all 2-3 year old children in Gwynedd's Flying Start area are aware of their childcare entitlement and are supported to receive this in one of the range of settings that are available while also working with the settings and staff to secure good attendance at the settings.
Responsibility for functions
•Laptop
•Mobile Phone
Main duties
•Take a strategic role to secure sufficient childcare placements for the Flying Start scheme and collaborate with relevant staff and agencies to aquire quality childcare for two year old children in the areas.
•Assist the settings, management committees and the lead bodies to comply with CIW requirements such as childcare procedures and policies for running all of the settings to reach the strategic requirements of Flying Start Childcare.
•Coordinate the procedure for allocating childcare places to families that are eligible for their Flying Start entitlement. Establish and implement effective arrangements to ensure that the majority of children receive the entitlement in full. Develop systems to record childcare options online and be a contact point for the procedure for families and target hard to reach families to promote the offer.
•Work with the settings to ensure high attendance at the settings and work closely with families to promote good attendance. Report on performance as needed by working closely with the Monitoring Officer and the Advisory Teachers to identify and analyse trends. Carry out visits to settings where there are attendance concerns.
•Promote the importance of childcare to families and develop HWB teuluoedd Gwynedd for this purpose and feed any good practice at the childcare settings to social media on a regular basis. Ensure consistency in terms of the information leaflets and the information about what the Flying Start childcare settings can offer. Have knowledge of all Flying Start services and actively promote them to families and facilitate work in terms of communicating information about the scheme.
•Consult regularly with the families and hold demand reviews and gather information by means of satisfaction questionnaires etc. with parents at the end of their childcare entitlement and create a report as needed and feed it to the Management Board and relevant officers.
•Jointly with the Childcare Development Officer, complete an audit of the training needs of childcare staff at the settings and schedule relevant training for them by complying with any statutory or contractual requirements.
•Work closely with the Development Officers to feed into the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment action plan. Advise on annual targets for developing new childcare settings and establishing new childcare placements as needed.
•Keep up-to-date with current legislation involving children, families and developments that are relevant to the above mention service.
•Be part of an agency team that provides a high quality services, that support the scheme aims, and Flying Start directives and policies.
•Participate in recording, monitoring, evaluations and reviewing services in line with instructions from the Early Years Coordinator and Welsh Government
•Collaborate and network with other officers and partners in order to fulfil the requirements of the post.
•Research into good practice within the field of early years and childcare workforce development.
•Arrange and attend outreach sessions to raise the profile and promote the field of early years and childcare.
•Attend local, regional and national groups, forums and network meetings, which consider issues associated with the field of childcare.
•Responsibility for self-development.
•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
•Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
•Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
•Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
•Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
•Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
Special circumstances
•Employment: Temporary contract until 31ST March 2022
•Occasionally it will be necessary to work unsociable hours such as at weekends or on the 8 to 6 rota.
•The Department has an ongoing programme of training and personal skills development. An Evaluation Plan will be implemented which will contribute to this provision. The post holder is expected to participate in the programme.
