Senior Early Years Officer (Maternity Cover)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO1
Salary: £38,934 – £40,755 per annum
Contract Type: 12-Month Maternity Cover
Closing Date: Sunday 30th March 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 7th or 14th April 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The Triangle Centre is a Haringey Council maintained Nursery it is an innovative nursery with friendly, hardworking, and motivated staff who provide childcare and education for families in our diverse local community. The Triangle Centre has an exciting Reggio inspired environment for children to grow and reach their full potential.
We are looking for a highly creative, passionate, inspirational, and energetic Senior Early Years Officer to support the early year’s practitioners to continue developing and motivating a high level of care, learning, play and education for children aged 6 months to 5 year olds.
We are excited to find a new team member to join our experienced team for the next exciting phase of our development. This will be a great opportunity for you to be part of our vision in being a beacon of childcare and education in the Local Authority.

About You

• Any applicants will require a minimum of level 3 in Children’s Care Learning and Development or hold an equivalent qualification.
• Have experience with working with young children and be a confident key person with solid knowledge of child development, the EYFS, individual learning styles and how to support families through guidance, empathy and partnership working.
• Be an inspirational role model to children and other colleagues and students.
• To have a minimum of 2 years’ experience as the lead practitioner within a team.
• Be an effective team player, being available to pause, support, reflect and enhance practice on the spot as well as through staff discussion opportunities
• To have experience of leading on planning, be a visionary for new and exciting provocations /activities for children to play and learn.
• To have experience supporting children with SEND, supporting children with Early years support plans.
• To have good literacy, ICT, communication and organisation skills
• To have excellent skills in teamwork, using your initiative and being forward thinking.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk