Professional Lead (Advisor) - Standards & Inclusion

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London Borough of Hounslow Salary: 64,188 - 68,559 per year Employment:
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About us at Hounslow We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

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The Role This is an exciting opportunity to join our Lifelong Learning, Skills & Employment (LLSE) division as a Professional Lead (Advisor) – Standards & Inclusion. In this role, you will support and champion high-quality early years practice across the borough by working directly with early years settings, leaders, practitioners, and wider partners.

You will visit EYFS settings to model high-quality practice, provide professional guidance, and support settings to meet and exceed statutory requirements. You will offer expert advice on pedagogy, learning environments, curriculum development, SEND support, and safeguarding, ensuring children receive the best possible start in life.

As part of the extended leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping strategic early years priorities, informing policy, and supporting the delivery of the borough’s limitless Lifelong Learning Strategy. You will also lead professional development, mentor and coach practitioners and leaders, and contribute to continuous quality improvement.

This is a fantastic opportunity to influence practice across the system, strengthen outcomes for our youngest learners, and develop your strategic leadership and quality improvement experience in a supportive and ambitious local authority.

About The Team You’ll Be Working InYou will be joining our Early Years Education Team, part of the Standards, Practice & Partnerships service within the Lifelong Learning, Skills & Employment division. Our team plays a key role in supporting early years settings to deliver high-quality provision and secure positive outcomes for children across the borough.

We work closely with nurseries, childminders, schools, and partner agencies to ensure children get the best start in life, with a strong focus on improving practice, promoting inclusion, and strengthening safeguarding.

The team includes specialists in early years quality improvement, safeguarding, inclusion, leadership development, and professional training. You will report to the Service Manager (Principal Advisor) Early Years Education and work alongside professional leads, and early years officers to build sector capacity and support sustained improvement across the early years system.

About You If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

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