We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
A vacancy has arisen for a Senior Early Years Practitioner within the Early Help Services and Children's Centres. These are very busy teams working across number of Children's Centres with multi agency teams co-located across the centres.
You must have a desire to work with children and families, new existing partner agencies, have excellent communication skills, the ability to work under pressure and be able to prioritise your work.
Duties Include
- Working within our daycare settings.
- Plan, organise and evaluate for key children and group activity sessions
- Complete home visiting
- Facilitate universal and targeted group session
- Use of Children's Social Care databases
The hours of work are 20 hours per week, 9.00am – 5.00pm.
There is a requirement to work flexibly across all the Children's Centre areas.
Shortlisting for this role- 26/05/2023
Interviews for this role- 05/05/2023
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
For an informal discussion please ring Ian Henry, Children Centre Manager on 01744 673445.
This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.