Team Leader: Early Education and Childcare Funding

As one of two Team Leaders, you will lead and inspire an established team of six officers within Early Years Sufficiency and Access, working in collaboration with the Early Years and Childcare Sufficiency and Access Manager to effectively deliver early education funding to private, voluntary, and independent providers that offer vital early education to young children across Oxfordshire. As part of your role, you will:

• Oversee the effective distribution and audit of the early education and childcare entitlements in line with statutory requirements and the Council's audit and financial procedures.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of 'how to' guides on all aspects of the funding processes to ensure all staff and external providers have the knowledge to carry out the work effectively and consistently.
• Oversee the development of new systems, IT and business processes in line with changes in Government policy, and ensuring changes are effectively communicated to our providers.
• Empower and lead part of the Early Years and Childcare Sufficiency and Access team to deliver on their responsibilities successfully, giving them the autonomy to do things differently as we continue to streamline our processes.
  
  We would like to hear from you if you are:
• Kind and caring, a naturalleader with greatinterpersonal, influencing and networking skills.
• Advocating for equality and integrity in all you do, you have proven experience leading and mentoring a team toward a goal with your inspiring and optimistic communication style.
• Always learningwith a solid knowledge and understanding of national priorities in the early years and childcare sector.
• Willing to take responsibility and contribute to the delivery of Oxfordshire County Council's vision, you are able to work on your own initiative yet in accordance with our agreed organisational goals.
• Driven to do it differently you can embark on a journey of continuous improvement developing and implementing systems and processes, including data handling and ICT.
In addition, you will have:
• Confidence in carrying out financialanalysis.
• Good analytical skills andanaptitude to interpret complex information.
• Excellent time management skills with an ability to work to deadlines., Disability Confident
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Do you want to make a difference? A REAL difference? JoinOxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice.We're seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of 'daring to do it differently', as we continue to strive to do better. In our Children, Education, & Families Directorate, we want every child to have the best possible education and with this goal in mind, we've set out to improve and transform our services. We've been consistently rated as "good" by Ofsted, but we are not content with that; we are ambitious and want to do even better! Oxfordshire County Council is a financially stable local authority which is committed to investing in Children, Education, and Families, to ensure that we have the resources we need to make a real difference to the children, young people, and families we work with.


• Relocation allowance of up to £8,000.
• Annual leave starting at 28 days per year (plus bank holidays).
• A comprehensive Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Flexible working.
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeingsupport 24 x7.
• Range of family friendly policies.
• Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme, range of staff discounts including travel, holidays, insurance, food, health & leisure activities.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
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