Early Years Supervisor

Early Years Supervisor
(Ref: E/EYS/B/726)

Job details:
Hours: 20 hours per week
Salary: £14,591.20per annum
Contract: Permanent
Location: Bangor Sure Start

Job Background:
The role of the Early Year’s Supervisor will be to deliver quality early year’s services to support the
delivery of the Sure Start programme within the Bangor Sure Start. You will be responsible
for the day to day running of the early year’s services and to ensure that a welcoming, safe
and child centred environment is created.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• To assist in the induction of all Early Years Assistant staff within the Bangor Sure Start Project alongside the Early Years Coordinator.
• To line manage and supervise Early Years Assistant staff.
• To supervise any student placements and volunteers within the early years programmes of Bangor Sure Start.
• To ensure a safe, stimulating and varied programme of play and learning opportunities are provided for children aged 0 - 3 years, suitable to the child’s age and stage of development.
• To ensure planning occurs to meets children’s individual needs that takes into account children’s abilities, interests, language and cultural backgrounds and these are reviewed as necessary and to ensure ongoing creative evaluation of all programmes.
• To be responsible for organising the environment inside and outside to ensure that resources and equipment are available, compliant and appropriate to meet the needs of the individual children before each programme commences.
• To develop and deliver crèches and programmes as outlined in the Bangor Sure Start yearly business plan that provide a purposeful, stimulating environment rich in children’s learning opportunities, both indoors and outdoors.
• To establish effective and empowering relationships with parents enabling them to develop their children’s maximum potential and to develop and deliver programmes that promote and actively encourage parents to play alongside their child / children that will offer developmental appropriate play and development opportunities for the child and their parent / carer.

Essential Criteria:

• NVQ Level 3 Child Care qualification or equivalent
• 1 years’ paid / unpaid experience of working in the early year’s sector
• 5 GCSE’s at grade C and above including English Language and Mathematics or equivalent
• Clean drivers’ licence and access to transport. Business insurance will be required for the successful candidate.

Desirable Criteria:

• 1 years’ experience in line managing / supervising staff
• 6 months experience of child observations and reporting on work done

For more information, or a full job description/person specification, please contact the Human Resources Department email: recruit@brysongroup.org
Application packs with full job description are downloadable from https://bryson.getgotjobs.co.uk/home, where there is also the option to apply online.
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