What's involved with this role: Temporary Early Years Sector Support Assistant/ Admin Reference no: Newcastle 1005033415215250 Pay Rate: £14.59 per hour PAYE 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 1-2 months City: NEWCASTLE The work will be mainly home based, but in the office perhaps two days a week. End date of 31/01/2025, but this is likely to be extended until February Admin experience and ability to use Word, Excel, Outlook etc. A knowledge or experience of EarlyYears, Education or Children and Family services would be a bonus, but not essential Assist with the delivery of funded early education and childcare places, through producing robust and secure information in respect of childcare sufficiency and other data, and providing advice and guidance to childcare providers. Key responsibilities: Maintain robust data and recording systems, support with collation and preparation of funded early years payments in accordance with the Council's financial processes and regulations and to produce and present statistical analysis. Support the production of printed and online information for schools, early education and childcare providers, parents/carers, children and young people to explain eligibility and funded early education places. Provide information and guidance as required utilising DfE and local authority policy and procedures as necessary to ensure compliance. Process and account for payments in respect of Child Care and Early Education funding in accordance with the Council's Financial Policy and Practice. Maintain positive working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and specifically education professionals both in and out of the authority including schools and early education and childcare providers. Maintain a good understanding of current legislation and statutory procedures around early education, childcare, funding, qualifications, training and safeguarding children. Clearly explain education related information to a range of professionals, particularly around early years funded places and eligibility criteria, and provide advice, guidance and interpretation of internal and external policies. Key requirements: Knowledge of early years and childcare sector Knowledge and understanding of confidentiality and safeguarding policy and procedures Experience of giving support and guidance to professionals Experience of working with public to access services Excellent written and verbal communication skills Good customer service skills and dealing with enquiries Ability to problem solve and work in a solution focused way Ability and experience of working in partnership with other organisations and professionals Ability to record, use and manipulate data using excel and access Ability to give good quality guidance Ability manipulate excel spreadsheets Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. "XI ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please