Early Years Support Worker

2 full time vacancy for an Early Years Support Worker role has arisen this is a 2.5 year fixed term post within the Early Years Team.

You will be expected to provide:

• Practical and emotional support to children and their families
• Plan and implement programmes of agreed work with children and their families
• Promote parents’ participation in sessions and their child’s development

You will be Part of a skilled, friendly and supportive team and work closely with a wide range of professionals.

Early years support workers are required to:

• Work closely with Early Years settings, Children’s Centre's and Early Help teams as well as other professionals.
• Provide emotional support, advice and sign posting to parents, carers, and families
• Support parents’ carers in all aspects of their child development.
• Contribute to assessments and work alongside other agencies to ensure parents and families can make positive changes
• To develop links with universal services and work alongside agencies to provide specific intervention
• To provide the right support at the right time for children and their families To plan, develop and implement universal services

You must

• Level 3 or above qualification in Early Years Childcare and Education or similar relevant area.
• Have experience of working with families aged 0-5
• Have a sound knowledge of early child development and the early years foundation stage and current legislation and documents relating to early years education
• To have experience of working with parent/carers
• To have experience of multi-agency working
• To have knowledge of the story so far or equivalent assessment tool

You will report directly to the Lead Officers for Family HUbs and Parenting:

Samantha Mclaren and Becky Hunter

You will work across the borough of Bury delivering services within our 5 neighbourhoods

Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis with some evening and weekends

About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

Next steps

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Samantha Mclaren [email protected] or Becky Hunter [email protected]

Interviews will be held on - Thursday 5th November 2026, Chesham Fold Family Hub, 89 Chesham Fold Road, Bury, BL9 6JZ