This post is full time and fixed term until September 2026

About the Role

Join our Skills Brokerage Team as an Early Years Education and Childcare Employment Officer.

This is an exciting opportunity to support recruitment and retention in the Early Years Sector. We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual, eager to develop their career and make huge impact.

This is a key role that will be instrumental in ensuring that the Early Years Sector can meet future demand by supporting people into employment and ultimately ensuring that children can access Early Years provision.  

Working with small children is a big deal.

It’s a job that makes a difference by helping to give children the best start in life.

This is a multi-faceted role that includes increasing recruitment and retention into Early Years; supporting interested people into work in this critical Sector and supporting parents and carers to learn more about the financial support that is available to them as part of the DWP Childcare offer.   

As part of a whole system response to supporting the Early Years Sector, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority have received Grant funding from the Department for Work and Pensions to work with unemployed people seeking to get into Early Years Education roles in nurseries, schools or potentially becoming self-employed as Childminders.  

Situated within the forward-thinking Investment and Delivery Directorate, working closely with Skills Brokers and other Employment Officers, you will be located in Job Centres within the Liverpool City Region on a place-based footprint.

You will engage with residents and employers, ensuring alignment with other employment and skills programmes to maximise the impact of resources.  Through focused and coordinated activity, your work will align with existing employer engagement teams’ work and networks, maximising local relationships, avoiding duplication and maximising impact within each of our LAs to the benefit of residents and employers.  

About the person 

Team members should be confident, relatable and approachable with high levels of emotional intelligence. An ability to quickly form professional relationship will be crucial.  

Team members should be able to offer high quality, personalised support as they work to aid the development of employability skills. They will undertake a variety of duties: setting and monitoring objectives and offering motivational support to those looking for employment in the Early Years. They will be a highly organised problem solver with excellent coaching skills; and ideally with experience of working with and supporting people into work. You will be an excellent networker with the ability to build and retain employer partnerships. An understanding of the Early Years sector would be desirable.

Team members should be self-starting, collaborative and ambitious, offer fresh ideas, and able to demonstrate a commitment to supporting the wider work linked to system’s change. They should have resilience, tenacity and a determination to deliver for the adults and children of the Liverpool City Region. 

If you think you match the job description, and our values, then click on the link to apply.

Please ensure that you provide clear examples and evidence in your application of how you meet the below key essential criteria. The information you provide in your application will be used for shortlisting.

1. 1) A good understanding of the Early Years sector and its recruitment needs
2. 2) Excellent interpersonal skills to be able to work well with colleagues and participants
3. 3) Excellent knowledge and understanding of apprenticeships and other education and skills programmes

Please highlight how you meet the remaining essential criteria outlined in the person specification within your CV.

About the organisation

Our vision is to create a fairer, stronger and cleaner city region. Somewhere we can all be proud of, where no one is left behind. To make our vision a reality we’re looking for people, from all walks of life, who reflect the diversity of our communities, feel connected to our vision, and who role model our three behaviours. 

We work together to make investments in areas that have a real impact on our communities, such as transport, employment, culture, digital and housing.

Our aim is to ensure that everyone benefits from the decisions we make. We want to create an environment which allows our economy to thrive for the good of everyone who lives and works in Liverpool City Region

Staff benefits

• - Local Government Pension Scheme contributions between 5.5% and 12.5%
• - Generous holiday entitlement of 29 days rising to 34 days after 5 years service, as well as bank holidays and the option to buy 10 additional days
• - Free travel around Liverpool City Region with an All-Zone Metro card worth £1,450 per year plus All Zones Off Peak Trio ticket for your spouse or partner
• - Flexible and hybrid working
• - 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family and Free counselling service
• - Corporate discounts at council-owned gyms
• - Bike to Work Scheme
• - Coaching, mentoring, apprenticeships, and professional qualifications including paid membership fees and even a £1k interest free learning loan for any non-job-related learning 

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for all candidates who met the essential criteria in the job description and who have declared that they: have a disability, are from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background, are a member of a reservist or have close family links to a member of the Armed Forces as we are under-represented by people from these communities.

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.