The early years lay the foundation for a child's lifelong journey, shaping cognitive, social, and emotional skills crucial for success. Early years professionals play a pivotal role in nurturing these developmental milestones before starting school. Recognizing the significance of professionals working with early years, we offer robust recruitment support to ensure skilled and dedicated individuals work in Early Years.
All early years providers must comply with employment law. This includes fulfilling responsibilities to staff by respecting their legal rights, and to the government by operating tax and other systems. To find out more information about employing and managing staff in Early Years, please visit Employing and Managing Early Years Staff
You can advertise your vacancy through the DfE Portal. The DfE recruitment into Early Years & Childcare campaign, with its own dedicated website, will direct potential applicants to use DWP’s Find a Job vacancy platform to search for early years, childcare and wraparound roles in their area.
If you have any current or upcoming roles in your setting, please watch these video tutorials to help you create an employer account and post your jobs or download the instructions.
You should use the term ‘early years’ in the title of your job adverts and select ‘Education jobs’ for the job category.
The council’s employment, business and skills team support the early years and childcare sector in the borough to recruit Waltham Forest based residents looking for career opportunities in the childcare sector.
The team provides specialist recruitment guidance and support to identify your vacancy needs and advertise your setting’s vacancy through the Waltham Forest Jobs website. The team will work alongside you to identify and attract motivated and enthusiastic early years professionals that will add value to the childcare business.
To advertise or find out more about the support, please contact the Employment team.
The Early Years and Childcare team provide continuous staff development and training opportunities through a range of information, advice and training offer which continually empowers early years professional to continue to deliver a high quality, inclusive and safe provision that prepares children for school.