North Halifax Partnership Sure Start Children’s Centres are excited to be recruiting for qualified and unqualified early years practitioners to work in our Children’s Centres in Calderdale. We have a variety of day/hours are currently available within our day care settings.

NHP Sure Start Children’s Centres have been established in Calderdale since 2014 and now have a contract in place until March 2022. They are committed to supporting communities to provide high quality learning opportunities for children and parents/carers and they are invested in developing a strong passionate staff team that work with partners to ensure the best outcomes.

We are currently recruiting staff for the following posts: –

Early Years Practitioner Plus

This post is designed to attract qualified and experienced practitioners that are passionate about helping children develop to their full potential. This role will have a lead area for the candidate to develop within the centre and within the wider team, such as speech and language, SEN, safeguarding.

Early Years Practitioner

This post is designed to attract newly qualified and unqualified staff, staff returning to childcare following a break and staff wanting to get into this line of work. You will be working with children and their families to support them to develop and have the best start in life.

All of the posts have an attractive annual leave package including a period of closure at Christmas, additional leave for 5 years’ service, staff voucher incentives and 2 training days a year. There are multiple training opportunities and internal career progression routes within the different departments of the organisation.

 Current available posts

Early Years Practitioner Plus – Innovations Children’s Centre – 37 hours

Early Years Practitioner Plus – Innovations Children’s Centre – 37 hours (Maternity Cover)

Early Years Practitioner Plus – Innovations Children’s Centre – 25 hours

Early Years Practitioner Plus – Elland Children’s Centre – 25 hours

Early Years Practitioner Plus – Elland Children’s Centre – 37 hours (term time only)

Other available posts

Senior Early Years Practitioner – Kevin Pearce Children’s Centre – 37 hours

Senior Early Years Practitioner – Innovations – 37 hours

Closing date for these applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 19^th January 2022

If you would like to come and see us in action please get in touch, details are on our website: –www.surestartchildrenscentresnhp.org.uk