Service: Wythenshawe Children’s Centres
Location: Wythenshawe
Hours: 16 hours per week, to be worked flexibly (part-time)
Salary: £22,231 FTE per annum (£9,613.41 per annum for part-time, 16 hours per week)
Contract type: Temporary (Until October 2025 with potential to extend)
Are you a self-motivated team player with a can-do attitude, who is solution focused and passionate about making a difference? If so, we want to hear from you.
At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Creche Worker to join the team at Wythenshawe Children’s Centres. We want an individual who is passionate about supporting our aim to make a positive difference and improve outcomes for children, young people and families living in Wythenshawe.
We are looking for someone who is experienced in organising and implementing a stimulating and varied programme of activities for children, within a group setting/or on an individual level. This role will be a worker who will be responsible for the delivery of crèches to support parent/carer activities at the Children’s Centres and Family Hub. There will also be an opportunity to work alongside our Early Years Outreach Worker to plan and facilitate quality stay and play sessions for local families with children under 5
Your impact
As a Lead Creche Worker you will:
• Be passionate about supporting our aim to make a positive difference and improve outcomes for children, young people and families living in Wythenshawe
• Help children to build confidence, extend their speech and vocabulary, and learn new skills through play.
• Provide reassurance to parents/carers that their children are in safe hands as they attend their community activities, learn new skills, make friends and have fun.
Your skills
We welcome applicants who:
• Educated to level two or above with a recognised professional qualification in Early Years and evidence of continued learning and professional development.
• Experience of working within an Early Years setting and knowledge of the Early Years
Foundation Stage and preferably knowledge of the Children’s Act and other relevant legislation.
• Ability to provide high quality creche facilities and plan activities for the children within a safe and stimulating environment and able to develop and maintain positive working relationships.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an in person interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
To Apply:
· Download and submit a completed Application Form linked to the Family Action job advert
• Closing Date: Monday 5th January 2025 at 11.59pm
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: rose.mcateer@family-action.org.uk
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service
