Nursery Nurse

The Service & Team:

This role will be part of the countywide Early Years Inclusion and SEND Team. However you will have close links with health visiting and Speech and Language Teams to ensure an holistic approach to early identification and support for children 0-5 with additional needs. This role is part of the Best Start in Life work to support Home Learning.

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative, community-focused approach. You will:

• Deliver targeted speech, language and communication interventions for young children (0–5 years)
• Support the delivery of training and modelling strategies for early years practitioners and families
• Work closely with Family Hubs, early years settings and community partners
• Contribute to creating inclusive environments that promote communication development
• Provide practical advice and strategies to parents, carers and professionals

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

Working Pattern:

This post will be for 29.6 hours per week across term time. It is a fixed contract for three years.

What you’ll need to succeed:

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience working with young children in an early years or SEND setting
• Has a strong understanding of speech, language and communication development
• Is confident delivering interventions and modelling good practice
• Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Is able to work independently across a locality, as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Is committed to improving outcomes for children and reducing inequalities

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

• Clinical supervision and support from a Highly Specialist SALT
• Opportunities to develop specialist skills in speech, language and communication
• Strong partnership working with Family Hubs and community services
• A rewarding role making a real difference to children and families

Join us to help give every child the best start in life through communication.

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:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here.

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

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.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

This listing was sourced from 4dayweek.io.