Early Years Officer

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrator to join our team and support the roll out of the early years reforms over the next year. The reforms are the biggest investment in childcare to support working families and have been introduced in phases since April 2024., The role of the Early Years Officer is to support the administration of the service to ensure that families are able to access high quality childcare provision, enabling children to be ready for starting school. The role includes the delivery of early education funding and a learning and development membership scheme for childcare providers. You will work alongside other Early Years Officers to enable us to continue to build on our success, bringing new experience and ideas to the team., You will need to be committed to continually learn and improve the way we do things to ensure effective outcomes. You will work as a part of a term to deliver a service, whilst valuing and respecting others' contributions. You will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues, learn from when things should go wrong and change what we do to make a difference.

You will need good communication skills to able to provide information / advice to childcare providers and families. You must be able to work to tight and sometimes conflicting deadlines, whilst maintaining attention to detail. You will also need excellent IT skills to use our online systems as well as experience of using spreadsheets and creating / updating presentations. As you will be working as part of a team, you will also need to be a good team player.

Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors have a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford's huge potential.

Our vision : Trafford where all our residents, businesses and communities thrive.

Trafford is a lively, prosperous place to put down roots and build a career. The council and Trafford schools employ around 8,000 people, who are central to making the area great. In return for their commitment, the council offers its employees development opportunities, as well as a fair and flexible workplace. The council is a Living Wage Employer.

Post 1 : EYO, immediate st art - part time 29 hours p.w Fixed Term end date 31 March 2026. Hours can be worked over 5 shorter days Monday Friday or 4 full days Tuesday Friday. Pro rata salary £22,169 - £24,048

Post 2 : EYO , starting April 2025- part time 21.75 hours p.w permanent. Hours to be worked over 4 days Tuesday Friday. Pro rata salary £16,627 - £18,036

Location Sale Waterside, Waterside House, Sale, M33 7ZF with the possibility to work from home for part of the week.

Salary range Band 4

Trafford council is a Living Wage Employer.

Working Pattern Part time

Working hours 21.75 and 29.0 hours per week

We will offer flexibility where we can if you are interested in a role, please speak to the recruiting manager about what flexibility they might consider.

Many of our colleagues can work from home for one or more days a week and / or they flex the hours they work. We call this SMART working, and it gives you the option to flex your days and hours so you can fit your work around your life and life around your work.