Early Years Entitlement Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 15 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £29,064.00 i £31,022.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £29064.00 - £31022.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 05 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Trowbridge, BA14 8JN |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | F0041-5551 |
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To support the administration & allocation of the Early Years Entitlement to all School, Private, Voluntary and Independent settings as well as childminders distributing an annual budget of over £76 million across Wiltshire. The entitlement offer spans differing levels of eligibility criteria across 15 hours universal up to 30 hours for working parents with children of 9 months to four years. There are also regular additional payments for disadvantaged children and those with special needs. Specific duties and responsibilities include: Maintain efficient administrative and financial systems and procedures for the Early Years Entitlement Produce payment uploads to the value of approximately £6 million each month, ensuring high levels of accuracy & working within time constraints to ensure providers receive funding on or before our published payment dates. As well as payments being processed, there are also invoices being made throughout the financial year for recovery of over payments. Assisting providers with their manual payment reconciliations. Support the administration/finance of Wiltshire's Early Years Entitlement, so that it is administered within the statutory requirements set out by the Department for Education. This requires technical understanding of the DfE regulations. Ensure that the practice is deemed compliant and allocation of funding is appropriate. Challenge providers where non-compliance is identified and escalate to EYE Co-ordinator and Commissioning Manager if further action is required. Undertake approximately six provider visits per year to audit providers more rigorously for compliance. Again, challenge providers where non-compliance is identified and escalate if necessary. Provide specialist guidance/ongoing training to early years providers on the Early Years Entitlement through the writing and issuing of an annual agreement and dealing with complex telephone and email enquiries regarding the Early Years Entitlement. Early years providers and childminders can be operating on a financial knife edge and cashflow will be a concern and therefore conversations can be challenging, The post holder will need to recognise the impact that even small changes of process will have for to them, and to communicate sensitively whilst being robust and unambiguous to explain the issues and explain & deliver resolutions. Years Census and headcount information which drive budget allocations. Develop and maintain effective systems to record, monitor, and validate data from early years providers. Ensuring the information the council holds on childcare providers is accurate and up to date through monitoring and reviewing changes to childcare/pre-school providers that come through from Ofsted.