Please note this secondment opportunity is open to current employees of LCRCA and fellow Local Authority employees only. 

The position is fixed term until 31st March 2026.

Please note we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications. 

About the Role

Join our Skills Brokerage Team as an Early Years Education and Childcare Employment Officer.

This is an exciting opportunity to support recruitment and retention in the Early Years Sector. We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual, eager to develop their career and make huge impact.

This is a key role that will be instrumental in ensuring that the Early Years Sector can meet future demand by supporting people into employment and ultimately ensuring that children can access Early Years provision. 

It’s a job that makes a difference by helping to give children the best start in life.

This is a multi-faceted role that includes increasing recruitment and retention into Early Years; supporting interested people into work in this critical Sector and supporting parents and carers to learn more about the financial support that is available to them as part of the DWP Childcare offer.  

As part of a whole system response to supporting the Early Years Sector, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority have received Grant funding from the Department for Work and Pensions to work with unemployed people seeking to get into Early Years Education roles in nurseries, schools or potentially becoming self-employed as Childminders.  

Situated within the forward-thinking Investment and Delivery Directorate, working closely with Skills Brokers and other Employment Officers, you will be located in Job Centres within the Liverpool City Region on a place-based footprint.

You will engage with residents and employers, ensuring alignment with other employment and skills programmes to maximise the impact of resources.  Through focused and coordinated activity, your work will align with existing employer engagement teams’ work and networks, maximising local relationships, avoiding duplication and maximising impact within each of our LAs to the benefit of residents and employers. 

 

About the person

Team members should be confident, relatable and approachable with high levels of emotional intelligence. An ability to quickly form professional relationship will be crucial. 

Team members should be able to offer high quality, personalised support as they work to aid the development of employability skills. They will undertake a variety of duties: setting and monitoring objectives and offering motivational support to those looking for employment in the Early Years. They will be a highly organised problem solver with excellent coaching skills; and ideally with experience of working with and supporting people into work. You will be an excellent networker with the ability to build and retain employer partnerships. An understanding of the Early Years sector would be desirable.

Team members should be self-starting, collaborative and ambitious, offer fresh ideas, and able to demonstrate a commitment to supporting the wider work linked to system’s change. They should have resilience, tenacity and a determination to deliver for the adults and children of the Liverpool City Region.

If you think you match the job description, and our values, then click on the link to apply.

Please ensure that you provide clear examples and evidence in your personal statement of how you meet the below key essential criteria. The information you provide in your personal statement will be used for shortlisting.

• •‍ Experience of providing IAG to customers/clients on a 1 to 1 basis and also in group settings.
• •‍ Experience and or good understanding of the Early Years Sector
• •‍ Experience of working independently to achieve targeted outcomes.

 

About the organisation

The Liverpool City Region is world-famous for its history, culture and creativity. A place of firsts, it is the birthplace of modern railways, public health and international trade. Now, our economy is being transformed once again, changing the world through world-leading innovation in health and life sciences, digital and creative, and advanced manufacturing - growing an economy already worth £35 billion a year.

The Combined Authority plays a central role in catalysing this innovation-led economy. We are seizing the unique opportunity to use our devolved powers and funding to create wealth and prosperity for all our 1.6 million residents and the whole UK - investing in our economy, people, place, transport and digital infrastructure. Our vision is for the Liverpool City Region to be: The best place to grow up, grow a family, and grow a business - where no-one is left behind.

 

Staff benefits

• •‍ Local Government Pension Scheme contributions between 5.5% and 12.5%
• •‍ Generous holiday entitlement of 29 days rising to 34 days after 5 years service, as well as bank holidays and the option to buy 10 additional days
• •‍ Free travel around Liverpool City Region with an All-Zone Metro card worth £1,450 per year plus All Zones Off Peak Trio ticket for your spouse or partner
• •‍ Flexible and hybrid working
• •‍ 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family and Free counselling service
• •‍ Automatic enrolment to our Westfield Health Programme
• •‍ Corporate discounts at council-owned gyms
• •‍ Bike to Work Scheme
• •‍ Coaching, mentoring, apprenticeships, and professional qualifications including paid membership fees and even a £1k interest free learning loan for any non-job-related learning

 

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates who have declared that they: have a disability, are from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background, are a member of a reservist or have close family links to a member of the Armed Forces as we are under-represented by people from these communities.

To be considered under one of these schemes, you must indicate your eligibility in the relevant section of the application form. In addition, you must clearly demonstrate in your personal statement how you meet all the key essential criteria listed above, and highlight how you meet the remaining essential criteria outlined in the person specification within your CV.

Applications that do not include this evidence will not be considered under the guaranteed interview schemes.

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.