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.

About 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 In

You 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:

Passionate about improving outcomes for young children and supporting high-quality, inclusive early years education.
Confident building positive relationships with early years leaders, practitioners, schools and partner agencies to drive improvement.
Able to coach, challenge and support others in a constructive way to improve practice and outcomes.
Comfortable working independently, managing a varied workload and using digital systems to record, analyse and share information.
Strong understanding of the EYFS, safeguarding, inclusion and quality improvement within early years settings.
Experience working within early years settings, with a strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), particularly supporting children under the age of two.
Reflective, collaborative and committed to continuous professional development, with a desire to make a positive difference across Hounslow's early years sector. This reflects the role's focus on partnership working, supporting high-quality practice, safeguarding, inclusion and continuous improvement across all early years settings

Essential For This Role

Enhanced DBS is required for this Role

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Claudia.Rodrigues@Hounslow.gov.uk

Office: 02085836683

Mobile: 07973902977

Interviews for this job will be held 27th August.