Family Engagement Practitioners (FEPs) with Early Years Scotland (EYS) have a unique, exciting role within the early years sector. The Family Engagement Practitioner has responsibility for providing support and promoting parental engagement and a whole family wellbeing service through the adoption of a multi-agency collaborative approach.

Our EYS staff team work together with children and families on a continual basis, across a variety of settings within communities with a focus on enriching and enhancing parental skills and capacity to improve, strengthen and maximise:

• positive attachments and relationships between parents/carers and children

• early literacy and communication skills

• shared interactions and approaches to learning

• cost-free and enriching and nurturing home learning environments

• healthy living approaches

• support for entitlements.

• meaningful transitions

You will be fully involved in shaping, developing, and evaluating the early years health programmes and innovative shared play and learning sessions you deliver.

A typical week’s activity could consist of:

· delivering a health programme to parents

· delivering Stay Play and Learn sessions incorporating health-based learning experiences.

EYS will likewise invest in you, providing regular and supported professional learning and experience opportunities that will enhance your career profile, develop your skills and knowledge in creative and unique ways and inspire your practice in new and exciting ways!

Post details:

(all pay, and allowances are pro-rata and subject to continued funding)

· Part time / Full time posts available, 52 weeks per annum

· Salary starting at £24,448 per annum FTE. (Point 24 on scale 24-26).

· 35 hours per week (9 - 4.30pm working hours)

· Fixed Term for 2 years until 31st March 2025, subject to continuing funding.

· Hybrid working opportunities.

· Based at Early Years Scotland Office, 23 Granville Street, Glasgow G3 7EE.

· Free parking at Glasgow office (Car Park Club)

· Accessible premises

· Generous annual leave entitlement - 25 days annual leave in the first year rising to 30 days after the completion of a successful six months probationary period review

· 12 public holidays per annum

· Family friendly policies

· Supported training and development.

· 5% employer pension contribution from 3 months’ service

· BUPA Employee Assistance Programme.

· Paid sick leave entitlement on a service-related increasing scale.

· Support for professional learning qualifications.

· Staff Consultation Committee/Social events committee

· Winter wellbeing day allocated in addition to annual leave entitlement.

Qualifications:

Applicants’ qualifications must be consistent with those required to register as a Practitioner with

SSSC, e.g:

· HNC Childhood Practice at SCQF Level 7

· SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) at SCQF Level 7

Additional ELC qualifications welcomed.