Early Years Wraparound Development Coordinator

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Early Years Wraparound Coordinator to join our team and support the roll out of the early years reforms over the next two years. The reforms are the biggest investment in childcare to support working families and are being introduced in phases from April 2024.

The role of the Early Years Wraparound Development Coordinator will be to co-ordinate and implement the Government's Early Years and Childcare reforms across Trafford with a particular focus on Wraparound provision. The Coordinator will have lead responsibility for targeting funding and resources for Trafford's Wraparound Programme effectively, identifying gaps in provision. This will involve working in a collaborative manner with teams across the local authority; schools, families, childcare providers (including private providers, childminders, community and voluntary organisations and early years settings) to assess supply and demand and expand wraparound childcare provision that is accessible to all children and families, including those with SEND. Your role will involve the quality assurance of newly developed and extended places through visits, networking, and training., · Possibility of hybrid working between the home and the office, in line with business requirements and agreement from the line manager.

· Willingness to facilitate and deliver training and networking events

Your style and approach will reflect our values and behaviours: you will be committed to continually learning & improving the way you do things to ensure effective outcomes; valuing and respecting others' contribution, you will work together to deliver service; you will take ownership of your actions and strive to getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference. You will have leadership abilities and be able to work on your own initiative.

You will need good communication skills to be able to provide information/business advice to childcare providers and families. You must be able to work to tight and sometimes conflicting deadlines, whilst maintaining attention to detail. As you will be working as part of a team, you will also need to be a good team player.

Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors have a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford's huge potential.

Our vision: Trafford - where all our residents, businesses and communities prosper.

Trafford really is a great place to work. We're keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do., To learn more about Trafford as a place to work visit and to view more about our awards and benefits please visit: Reasons to Join our Family | greater jobs