Early Years Learning Leads

Are you an experienced Early Years Leader or Setting Manager eager for your next professional challenge?

The Flourishing Together London West Early Years Stronger Practice hub, is recruiting for three Subject Leads. These three rewarding Early Years Learning Lead roles, will each specialise in a distinct area:

• Maths,

• Communication and Language,

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED).

As an Early Years Learning Lead, you will facilitate high-quality DfE-approved CPD for practitioners, provide

specialist subject support to Early Years settings, and engage in regional and national networking with fellow

professionals. Your expertise and passion will be instrumental in driving excellence and innovation across the

sector.

• Maths Lead (3 days per week or 114 days per year): Champion mathematical learning and

development, supporting practitioners to embed numeracy and spatial reasoning in everyday practice.

Please email [email protected] for an Expression of interest form and to request more information.

• Communication and Language Lead (4 days per week or 152 days per year). Promote language-rich

environments, develop practitioner knowledge and support communication development for all children. Please email [email protected] for an Expression of interest form and to request more information.

• PSED Lead (2 days per week or 76 days per year). Lead initiatives which support practitioners to

foster children’s emotional wellbeing, social skills and resilience within Early Years settings. Please email [email protected] for an Expression of interest form and to request more information.

If you are committed to continuous professional development and keen to make a wider impact, we would love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of Early Years education!

Appointments will be made through Flourishing together London West Early Years Stronger Practice Hub. The Department for Education provides funding of £500 per day, inclusive of travel and associated costs. The role is undertaken through release from your current employer, with They are funded up until March 2028 in the first instance, with the possibility of contracts being extended dependent on funding. These roles can be term time only with some holiday working, or all year round, however the number of days per year is fixed. We will consider job shares.

Roles can be undertaken in one of two ways:

• Being paid directly as a self-employed contractor / consultant

• By agreed release from your existing role, with payment be made to your setting for your release

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975