Portage Quality and Inclusion Coordinator

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Early Years teacher to join our local authority Early Years team. In your role as the Portage Quality and Inclusion Coordinator you will lead a team working across Cheshire East to support all Early Years children including those with SEND to access high quality early education in their local community. You will play a key role in the Early Years forum, allocating staff to settings, portage home visiting case load and supervision. Through the offer delivered by your team you will ensure that inclusion is the golden thread through all Early Years provision achieving the Best Start in Life Strategy objective of “Inclusive practice as standard practice”. You will ensure the work of your team improves outcomes for all early year’s children. You will also work closely with the family hubs start for life leads in each locality to develop and maintain universal and targeted inclusive practice within Family Hubs and coordinate the allocation of resources internally and across collaborative partnerships. You will be joining Cheshire East Local Authority at an exciting time to support us in developing our Best Start in Life local plan to improve the percentage of children that achieve a Good Level of Development (GLD) at the end of the foundation stage.

**Organisation**
- Cheshire East Council

**Location**
- Holmes Chapel, Sandbach, Knutsford, Middlewich, Macclesfield, Congleton, Crewe, Wilmslow, Nantwich

**Job Category**
- Education, People, Children and Young People Services

**Grade**
- CEC NJC - Grade 10

**Salary Min**
- £41,771 per annum

**Salary Max**
- £48,072 per annum

**Hours per week**
- 37

**Weeks per year**
- 52.143

**Employment Type**
- Permanent

**Closing Date**
- 28/10/2025

**Ref No**
- E3312

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future - together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Brighter Future

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Early Years teacher to join our local authority Early Years team. In your role as the Portage Quality and Inclusion Coordinator you will lead a team working across Cheshire East to support all Early Years children including those with SEND to access high quality early education in their local community. You will play a key role in the Early Years forum, allocating staff to settings, portage home visiting case load and supervision. Through the offer delivered by your team you will ensure that inclusion is the golden thread through all Early Years provision achieving the Best Start in Life Strategy objective of “Inclusive practice as standard practice”. You will ensure the work of your team improves outcomes for all early year’s children. You will also work closely with the family hubs start for life leads in each locality to develop and maintain universal and targeted inclusive practice within Family Hubs and coordinate the allocation of resources internally and across collaborative partnerships. You will be joining Cheshire East Local Authority at an exciting time to support us in developing our Best Start in Life local plan to improve the percentage of children that achieve a Good Level of Development (GLD) at the end of the foundation stage.

Interviews will take place on 6th November 2025.

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