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Relief Early Years Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 21 February 2025
Salary: £11.44 per year
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 21 March 2025
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT8 6BT
Company: Mencap
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 55874372

Summary

Job Advert
Do you have a passion for making a difference to the lives of young people with a learning disability? We are looking dedicated Relief Early Years Assistants to work across our Children centre and Preschool.
Mencap Early years provision provides a programme of play, care and education for 2-5 year olds with significant developmental delay.
We are recruiting for Relief Early Years Assistant's on a permanent contract working 35 hours per week. This role is based on term time as and when working, an enhanced Access NI and BHSCT checks are mandatory for this position.
What you will do as a Relief Early Years Assistant?

- Assist with the provision of a stimulating, caring and therapeutic play within an educational environment
- Working alongside the multi-disciplinary team, other professionals and Family Support team offering care and learning through play and therapy opportunities to ensure each child can reach their full potential.
- The job requires a passionate and caring individual who will work as part of the Early years team to provide a stimulating environment to the children we support.

Do you have the skills and experience to be a Relief Early Years Assistant?

- Ideally you will have a qualification at QCF Level 2 or equivalent in ChildCare, Learning and Development or Play-work
- Relevant occupational qualification and Knowledge of Child development and age appropriate activities.
- We would prefer candidates with a minimum of 1 year working/lived experience with children aged 0-4 and their families.

Do you feel that this role is for you? If so, please apply now with a full and up to date CV.
Job ID: 33343

Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to support our team members. For more information, please see the attached details.

About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.
Our work includes;

- providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
- providing advice through our help lines and web sites

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Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.