Senior Early Years Consultant

Permanent, Part Time - 30 hours a week – 4 days

Are you passionate about giving every child the best start in life? Do you thrive on inspiring others, driving quality, and shaping early years excellence.

We are looking for a Senior Early Years Consultant to join our dynamic Early Years Quality Improvement Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a leadership role that genuinely makes a difference for children, families, and early years professionals across Bristol.

Your work will directly contribute to the national agenda on education reform set out in Every child achieving and thriving and Bristol City Council’s own Children and Education plan. In this, Bristol is unique in that priority outcome one is focused on better educational outcomes for disadvantaged children.

As a Senior Early Years Consultant, you will play a key role in ensuring children achieve highly at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage, closing attainment gaps, and supporting settings and schools to deliver the very best early education and care.

We are looking for an experienced, reflective and enthusiastic early years professional with a deep knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage, quality improvement, and effective pedagogy.

You will be a confident experienced senior leader as you will be responsible for leading and the line management of our Early Years Consultants Team.

You will hold an up-to-date knowledge of current local and national policy and practice and be able to inspire practitioners, hold high expectations, and have excellent communication skills.

You will need to be skilled at building positive partnerships and navigating a wide range of early years environments and be motivated by improving outcomes for all children.

This role offers variety, influence, creativity, and the chance to help shape quality improvement across our early years sector ensuring that every child can enjoy, achieve, and thrive.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

If you have any queries after reading the job description please contact Dawn Butler, Service Manager: Early Years - dawn.butler@bristol.gov.uk

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

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