An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Early Years, Childcare and School Readiness Service to recruit two Early Childhood Education Qualification Tutors due to the retirement of colleagues in our well-established team. Our Qualifications Centre is dedicated to delivering high-quality education to learners starting or progressing their career in the Early Years sector. We are seeking Tutors who are passionate about professional development in the Early Years. As an Early Childhood Education Qualifications Tutor, you will be responsible for planning and delivering NCFE CACHE accredited qualifications with face-to-face observations and assessments of individual learners across Cambridgeshire. The role involves course teaching, managing your diary, driving to various locations throughout Cambridgeshire to carry out assessments in the workplace, conducting online discussions with learners working towards qualifications and using our OneFile e-portfolio system to log and track learner work. Each post is being offered on a permanent contract, working 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. The post is a mobile post, offering flexible working opportunities and will involve a mixture of work from home, our office based in Sunley House (Papworth Everard) and out at settings within Cambridgeshire (a car and driving licence will be required). Interview date: Thursday 13 February 2025 For an informal chat about the role, please contact Lisa North (Qualifications Centre Coordinator) at lisa.north cambridgeshire.gov.uk. Our benefits We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage… A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more. About us Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch. Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers