Early Years Outreach Team Manager

Ladywood District Children's Centres are a targeted service for families with children aged 0-5 years. The Family Support team holds 1-1 caseload work and facilitates group work for families in the Ladywood District

This is an exciting opportunity to join a passionate and experienced team. We are seeking a full-time Early Years Outreach Team Manager to cover maternity leave for 12 months. Your role will be to lead and manage the Early Years services to deliver services in the community and family homes, which promote child development, having a primary focus on 0-5 within the 0-19 model, with flexibility for a whole family approach

The successful candidate will be required to:

• To ensure all sessions delivered by Early Years are planned and delivered with clearly identified outcomes to meet the defined KPIs with an emphasis on narrowing the gap and school readiness.
• To be first point of contact for partners regarding Early Years Services across the locality- develop and deliver excellent services in partnership with other agencies.
• To act as a Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Ensure the effective delivery of 2-year-old development checks across the district and contract KPI's are met regarding this function (working closely with the Health Visiting Service)
• In liaison with Health Visiting to ensure integrated child development provision
• Ensure key public health messages are embedded into Early Year's practice across the locality.
• SEND lead for the locality.
• In liaison with Health Visiting Service ensure early identification and support for children with SEN, liaising with external agencies and supporting the delivery of services by external specialist organisations.
• To contribute to TAFN process
• To work closely with the Family Support Manager ensuring an integrated approach to working with families
• To line manage the team of Early Years Outreach Workers.
• To ensure that good information systems are established and maintained that reflect effective monitoring and tracking of children's progress.
• To lead on EEE funded places ensuring children access their entitlement and the service meets their required KPI's.
• To work flexibly and deliver services across the service as directed.

  Skills/Experience

• Considerable relevant experience of work in an Early Years setting, and or in Children's Centres, gained over several years
• Leadership and management of early years and outreach staff
• Experience of being part of the management team of an early year's provision and being responsible for aspects of the EYFS
• Experience of staff and service performance management
• Experience of ensuring that parents' access EEE funding and improving take-up
• Experience of partnership working with professionals in relevant agencies and families to effect change and improve outcomes for children
• Use of ICT and management systems
• Good communication skills with staff and stakeholders leading to positive outcomes for children and families
• Communicating and working in partnership with families and carers
• The ability to review, analyse and evaluate your own and others' practice

 

The working pattern for this role is Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm but may include some occasional evenings.

Please note, we do not accept CVs. For further information about this role, please contact Victoria Taylor-Bryant: Victoria.taylorbryant@barnardos.org.uk

When completing your application please refer to your skills, knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional information document (if applicable).

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:22836
• Job Title:Early Years Outreach Team Manager
• Location:Birmingham
• Locality:Ladywood
• Contract type:Fixed term
• End date:June 2027
• Hours:37
• Salary:£35,390
• Closing Date:6 May 2026
• Interview Date:TBC