Head of Early Years

Are you an experienced Early Years specialist?  Do you have the drive and determination to help drive education improvements for children under 5 in schools and Early Years settings?
 
In August 2013 more than 400 staff transferred from the Local Authority to the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust. The Trust now delivers a range of services to support leadership, management and improved outcomes for children and young people as well as schools and early years settings across Buckinghamshire and beyond.

The Trust is looking for an experienced and driven Head of Early Years to lead an exceptional team of early years professionals. As a member of the Education Senior Management Team, you will manage the day to day delivery of the early years improvement service working closely with the school intervention and standards team. An experienced Early Years leader in education, you will have an in depth knowledge of current education policy, the current Ofsted inspection framework for schools, the EYFS, statutory requirements and education improvement strategies and will inspire local schools and providers to deliver outstanding early education services to children.

The Main duties of the post holder will be to:

• Manage delivery of the full range of early years services offered by the Trust through line management of the early years managers.
• To implement the delivery of the Early Years foundation stage including appropriate guidance, support and challenge to Heads, governors, and Heads of non-maintained settings on standards of teaching and learning.
• Review the operational and delivery structure and ensure the service delivers outstanding results so that every child in Buckinghamshire receives an education which is good or better.

You can download the full candidate pack from www.aspire-education.org/jobs

Closing date 27th July 2014

How to Apply

Please respond by submitting a CV, covering letter and supporting statement by the closing date of 27th July 14.

Please ensure your application quotes the Reference Number: BLT06

Please note that your supporting statement should give evidence or examples of your experience and achievements, addressing the appointment criteria listed in the Person Specification.

Please ensure your covering letter, explains what has motivated you to apply for the role.

In addition, you should give names, positions, organisations and contact details (email and telephone) of at least two referees in support of your overall application, one of whom should ideally be your current/most recent employer. No referees will be contacted without your prior approval.

Finally, please ensure that you have included your mobile, work and home telephone contact numbers, as well as a personal email address that you check regularly. It would also help if you could provide us with any dates when you will not be available or where you might have difficulty with the indicative timetable.

We also ask you to complete and return our monitoring information form. This will help our client to follow the recommendations of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, that employers should monitor selection decisions to assess whether equality of opportunity is being achieved. The information on the form will be treated as confidential, and used for statistical purposes. The form will not be treated as part of your application.

Application should be emailed to recruitment@theresourcepeople.co.uk

Queries

If you need any further information or would like to speak to the recruitment team please call us on 0330 72 600 70 in the first instance.

Reference Number: BLT06