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
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 are met. You will be responsible for monitoring providers' delivery, making quality judgements and supporting providers where 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 met 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:
* Recognise quality childcare and robust safeguarding cultures within provisions
* Working knowledge of Ofsted requirements and quality frameworks for wrap-around childcare
* Good IT literacy and skills covering all standard desktop products (email, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentational software).
* 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.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to clearly summarise or synthesise complex or lengthy documentation.
* Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
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: Jan.Milstead@Hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 0208 583 2734
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 21st April 2025.
(Please seek permission from your line manager if you wish to apply for this role as secondment.)
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