The Service & Team: 

The Early Years Service support inclusion and improve outcomes for children with long term and complex needs within their setting. 

The Role: 

We are looking to appoint a dynamic Nursery Nurse who is trained to Early Years Level 3 and has recent working experience of Inclusion and SEND. The role is within the Early Years Inclusion and SEND team and will involve supporting the Child Development Specialist Teacher, modelling interventions and strategies to ensure children in our early years provision reach their potential. This will be an outreach role in North Cornwall.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.                 

This position will be subject to a criminal record disclosure check.

What you’ll need to succeed:

You will need to be able to demonstrate a knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage and SEND Code of practice graduated response. In order to reach the different settings you will need a full driving licence and a car. This is a part time permanent role for 20 hours per week term time.

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

The full role profile is attached here.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact dilys.vincent@cornwall.gov.uk 

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

About us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Find out more about working and volunteering for us.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.