Best Start in Life Advisor

3 weeks ago

Weymouth, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
Chesil Locality Best Start in Life Advisor

Dorset Council are passionate about all children being able to access a high-quality early education that promotes high standards, is appropriate to their needs, and helps them to achieve their best possible outcomes

We want our children to have the best possible start in life, with a specific focus from pre-conception to being ready for the transition to school.

The Best Start in Life Advisors manage a caseload of early years settings. This will be a mix of registered childminders, wraparound providers, and ‘group’ provision e.g., pre-schools and nurseries.

This role will support early years settings to meet the needs of children through the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework. We have a statutory duty to provide information, advice, and training to early years practitioners and those who wish to register as a childcare provider.

The Advisor will work with setting leaders to review the approach to delivering the curriculum for all children. This will include children who are considered to be vulnerable and at risk of achieving their full potential. This might include children who:

- have English as an additional language
- are in care
- experience poverty, poor housing, and access to other activities
- experience adverse childhood experiences
- in receipt of Early Years Pupil Premium or 2-year-old funding
- have additional needs and, or a disability

The role will support early years practitioners to take the approach that ‘SEND is everybody’s business’ and will support practitioners to:

- understand their responsibilities to children with SEN and the setting’s approach to identifying and meeting SEN
- advise and support each other
- ensure parents and carers are closely involved throughout and that their insights inform action taken by the setting, and liaising with professionals or agencies beyond the setting

The role will support the setting to evaluate their own provision, identifying actions and improvements in order to be judged ‘Good or Outstanding’ in an Ofsted inspection.

Information, advice, and training will be delivered to settings in a variety of ways including through role modelling, planning, and delivering activities alongside practitioners, guiding setting staff in delivery of activities to support children’s development.

**Further Information**:
For an informal conversation about the vacancy please contact Rachel Nesbitt Early Years Lead on 01305 225988.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.

**Dorset Council: A great place to work**

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

Find out more about how to apply.

**About Us**:
This is an exciting time for the early years sector as the 2023 Government childcare announcements have meant an increase in the funded childcare offer for working parents. By September 2025, working parents of a child under five will be entitled to 30 hours of funded childcare per week. Advisors will also work with colleagues and settings to support the expansion of wraparound provision (before and after school) for primary school children to be able to access in their local area.

This role is varied, and the main areas of focus will be:

- building the capacity of practitioners to meet the individual needs of all children, but particularly those at risk of poor outcomes.
- ensuring that children with a SEND need are able to take up their full entitlement.
- supporting early identification of need, particularly in relation to new entitlements for children under 3.
- supporting new and existing providers as part of a wider locality team.
- facilitating effective transition arrang

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