Early Years and Childcare Support Assistant

In this role, you will provide advice, guidance and support to early years providers, childminders, primary schools, school-aged childcare providers, and liaise with Family Hubs and wider local authority professionals. You will help strengthen practice, support quality improvement and ensure services remain accessible, compliant and responsive to the needs of children and families. Key areas of work include:

• Supporting the rollout of Free Breakfast Clubs
• Contributing to the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme
• Helping to deliver the local authority's Best Start in Life plan and wider service priorities.
• You will also support networking, safeguarding, monitoring and reporting activity.
We are looking for someone with experience of working with children and families within early years, schools an/or childcare settings.

Do you have a passion for helping children learn, grow, and thrive in their early development? We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Early Years and Childcare Support Assistant to support the delivery of high-quality early years and school-aged childcare provision across the borough.,
• Strong communication and organisational skills,
• Good IT and record-keeping ability
• An understanding of child development and safeguarding
• The ability to work collaboratively with a range of partners.
• A minimum Level 3 qualification relevant to working with early years is essential.
• A full driving licence and the ability to meet the travel requirements of the role are essential.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families and committed to supporting high-quality provision across the borough


• Generous annual leave of up to 34 days per year
• Hybrid Working (where appropriate)
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to numerous other salary sacrifice schemes
• Access to our employee health and wellbeing platform, which includes an exciting range of staff benefits, including, spreading the cost of home and electronics, bike shop, car scheme, gym membership, lifestyle savings
• A range of Staff Network groups
For more details: https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/benefits-and-rewards