Early Years Advisory Teacher

About the Team

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our well respected and knowledgeable Early Years Quality Standards and Safeguarding Team (EYQSS team).

The EYQSS team aim to provide a dynamic universal offer of advice guidance and support for all early year’s providers to ensure children receive high quality early education and care. We also offer targeted support at an individual school or early years setting level.

We work closely with our colleagues in early years sufficiency and business and school effectiveness as well as external partners such as time to talk to ensure our support is streamlined and effective.

We currently have a 0.4 role available for an experienced reception teacher to work as part of our busy team to support the requirements of the Giving every child the best start in life early years reform.

This is a fixed term role until 31st August 2027 and would also suit a secondment opportunity. Your employer would need to give their consent for this.

To work as part of a team with the responsibility to ensure the Local Authority meets its statutory responsibilities relating to safeguarding and quality improvement through access to advice, support and training, across Early Years and Childcare provision.

To implement strategies to improve the quality of early education and childcare.

• Qualified Teacher status
• Minimum of 5 years EYFS teaching experience including teaching in reception
• At least 3 years in an EYFS lead role

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit:
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The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

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Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre‑engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed.

Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

To discuss the role please contact Sharon Kindred, Lead Commissioner for School and Early Years Improvement via Sharo

Closing date: midnight 6th January 2026
Interview date: 16th January 2026

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hran and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more