Early Childhood Service Sector Support Officer

3 months ago


Kettering, United Kingdom North Northamptonshire Council Full time

About the role

The Early Childhood Service - Early Years are looking to recruit two Early Childhood Service Sector Support Officers to join our small Early Years’ Service supporting the childcare sector in North Northamptonshire.

We are looking for compassionate, enthusiastic team members with a ‘can do’ attitude to join us on a full time basis working with our childcare providers

Providing an effective, timely Early Childhood Sector Support Service to childcare providers, Schools, internal and external colleagues/stakeholders.

Supporting the Early Childhood Service Childcare Sufficiency and Compliance Officer to ensure the Service and the Sector is statutorily compliant.

Ensuring that eligible children in the county take up their funded place and support parents/carers to check eligibility and find suitable childcare

You will be fully computer literate and have extensive experience of MS packages, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. You will be using a wide range of NNC systems for which full training will be provided.

The role will require working closely with colleagues and stakeholders in the County therefore a team member with excellent communication both verbal and written are essential.

What will you be doing?
Providing an effective, timely Early Childhood Sector Support Service to childcare providers, Schools, internal and external colleagues/stakeholders.

Supporting the Early Childhood Service Childcare Sufficiency and Compliance Officer to ensure the Service and the Sector is statutorily compliant.

Ensuring that eligible children in the county take up their funded place and support parents/carers to check eligibility and find suitable childcare

About you
We are looking for compassionate, enthusiastic team members with a ‘can do’ attitude to join us on a full time basis working with our childcare providers

You will be fully computer literate and have extensive experience of MS packages, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. You will be using a wide range of NNC systems for which full training will be provided.

The role will require working closely with colleagues and stakeholders in the County therefore a team member with excellent communication both verbal and written are essential.

About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:

- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

**Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.**
- We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete._

Our benefits
We offer:

- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.



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