| Club or setting: | London Borough of Hounslow |
| Location: | Across the Hounslow borough |
| Hours: | 7.15 hrs hours per day, 5 days a week |
| Job title: | Hounslow Activity Programme Support |
| Salary: | £38,934 per annum, pro rata. |
| Closing date: | 14/04/2025 |
Details of vacancy
Fixed-Term Contract/Secondment until 31st March 2026, Full-Time, 36 hours per week.
About The Role
Your professional accountability is to ensure that the Local Authority and DfE requirements to deliver the programmes, analyse associated data and work across the borough with many providers, schools, community groups, faith groups and local authority colleagues and partners were needed. You will be responsible for monitoring providers delivery, making quality judgements and supporting providers were needed.
Statutory duties relating to the Childcare Act 2016 and the Childcare Act 2006 are met, managing the day to day administration of the National programmes
This position involves hybrid working and your time will be split between the workplace (Hounslow House), working from home, traveling across the borough visiting providers and raising the profile of the programme.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
As a member of the Early Years & Childcare Service, you will work with a range of colleagues to ensure standards are meet with the delivery of the National Wraparound programme and Holiday activities and food programme,
About You
To work effectively as part of the Council’s Early Years and Childcare team, delivering corporate objectives through the work of the Service. These include:
To work closely with schools to support the objectives of the DfE Grant to provide Wraparound care to all parents and carers of primary school-aged children (term time) who need it improving labour market participation.
Supporting the Holiday activities and food programme (Easter, Summer and Winter school holiday periods) to meet the DfE grant determination objectives.
Inspire, influence, and motivate head teachers, governors, managers, lead partners, senior education leaders and early years and childcare partners.
Work collaboratively within the local authority and with key external agencies to ensure joined up partnership working to meet individual needs of children and families. This will involve forming relationships between the local authority, local job centres, providers and community representatives.
To support the development of the programmes, contributing to the monitoring systems created and associated project documentation to monitor and evaluate the programme on an ongoing basis.
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
1.Recognise quality childcare and robust safeguarding cultures within provisions
2.Working knowledge of Ofsted requirements and quality frameworks for wrap around childcare
3.Good IT literacy and skills covering all standard desktop products (email, word processing, spread sheets, databases and presentational software.
4.Experience of working within complex projects in a challenging environment, prioritising workloads to meet deadlines including the ability to react quickly and decisively to changing work priorities or deadlines.
5.Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to clearly summarise or synthesise complex or lengthy documentation.
6. Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.
Contact:
0208 583 2734