Lead Early Years and Family Educator

We are currently recruiting for a new and exciting position of a Lead Early Years and Family Educator (Targeted Outreach & MiR) working across Lincolnshire Children Centres leading on Bespoke Targeted outreach work and Making it Real as part of the Family Hub development.

Do you have the passion and commitment to make a difference to a family’s life?

This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced and dedicated team of Lead Early Years and Family Educators working across Lincolnshire children’s centres and local communities to deliver the new Targeted Outreach Work under the Early Years and Family Service, supporting identified children to have the best start in life and reach their expected Good Levels of Development at the end of Reception.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with families.

You will work in partnership to provide high quality, fun and educational sessions, while supporting child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy, and working as part of an integrated early years team. The Early Years Alliance will provide you with exciting training and the opportunity to learn new skills and experiences to support your professional development.

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time employees
• Additional annual leave for long service
• Enhanced sickness pay.
• Employer and employee contribution pension scheme
• Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well-being.
• Regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities
• A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
• A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well-being.
• Mileage allowance at 40p per mile from an agreed base /home based

• To provide high quality targeted outreach support to identified families in the home and local communities. Identified families will be shared from LCC from key priority groups:
  
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  • Families who do not engage in the Family Hubb/Children’s Centre offer
  • Children at risk of not achieving Good Levels of Development
  • Males
  • Summer born children
  • SEND
  • FSM
  • Children not accessing their Early Years Entitlement
  • Children with no completed ASQ3
  • Other identified groups such as low reception or school attendance up to 8 years
• To identify barriers/challenges for families accessing the Family Hub/Children’s Centres offer and put in place an action plan for these families to facilitate their engagement.
• Identify families who will not engage with the Targeted Outreach Support and share this information with Lincolnshire County Council.
• To provide evidenced based taster programmes of Making it Real, PEEP Incredible Years and any other high-quality educational and fun sessions/programmes for children in their early years and their families to support child development, early learning, positive health outcomes and positive parenting, including emotional literacy, to support children being ready for school and reaching Good Levels of Development.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate all sessions and activities to encourage the engagement of parents in their children’s learning, development and wellbeing in their early years to have the greatest opportunity of reaching or exceeding their expected level of development and be ready for school.
• Be knowledgeable of the Best Start in Life Strategy and Healthy Babies, the Family Hub/Children’s Centre offer so that families can be connected to the appropriate support. To work within a multiagency environment to fully support parents and children.
• To track the progress of vulnerable and…