Quality Development Advisor

Location

Leatherhead, Surrey | United Kingdom

Job description

This role has a starting salary of £38,746 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.

We are excited to be hiring 4 new Quality Development Advisors to join our fantastic Early Years Educational Effectiveness team, based in Fairmount House, Leatherhead. The role involves hybrid working, supporting early years providers across the county, working remotely (sometimes from home) and combining this with working from any of the Council's offices.

Rewards and Benefits:

• 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

About the Team

The Early Years Educational Effectiveness provides support and challenge to a range of early years providers including full daycare, pre-schools, maintained nurseries, childminders and out of school provision to promote quality improvements and maintain high quality provision. We provide advice and guidance on quality of provision and the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage as well as supporting setting to meet the requirements set out by Ofsted and other relevant legislation.

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic, resilient and innovative Quality Development Advisor to join our highly motivated and effective team. You will be instrumental in the design and delivery of the support that providers are offered to develop new and existing provision and will work closely with a range of professionals across the early years services in Surrey.

You will provide practical support, guidance and consultancy advice to early years providers to improve outcomes for children and enhance their offer to children and families. You will also monitor the effectiveness of training programs, collect feedback from participants and use data to continuously improve training content and delivery, and prepare regular reports to management and stakeholders.

Each Quality Development Advisor will have a lead area and work will focus on the development and delivery of services linked to the key area. The key lead areas are:

• Childminders
• Quality Improvement
• School based early years provision
• Children aged 2 and under

Initially the roles will be specific to a quadrant of Surrey, over time with the development of the lead roles they will become countywide and will require travel across the whole of Surrey.

Shortlisting Criteria

To apply, alongside your CV, you will be asked to answer the following questions:

• What Early Years Degree do you hold and do you hold a full and relevant Level 3 in Early Years?
• As a graduate describe how you have developed your career and what is your experience of working with children across the whole 0-5 age range.
• Describe your experience of implementing a programme/project. Please state the outcome and anything you would do differently in the future.
• Please give examples of when you have monitored the effectiveness of training or a project and how you used data to influence future developments.
• Tell us about a time you have provided mentoring support focusing on one of the 4 lead areas and tell us what skills, knowledge and experience you would bring to one of these priorities:
  • Childminding
  • Early Years in schools
  • Quality Improvement processes
  • 2 year olds and under

Contact us

Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.

For an informal discussion please contact Philippa Gray by telephone on 07854 2110101.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 02/04/2024 with interviews planned for 12/04/2024.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.

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Salary

£38.75k - £42.05k per annum