About the Role
Connect services and empower families to give every young child the best start in life. As our Community Inclusion Advisor, you’ll play a vital role connecting early years services across the borough, helping young children thrive and building strong foundations for local families.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Best Start in Life priorities, ensuring young children and families receive seamless, joined-up support.
- Visit schools, nurseries, or Family Hubs.
- Collaborate with health and social care partners.
- Host evidence-based workshops for parents to strengthen the home learning environment.
- Lead efforts to improve Good Level of Development outcomes.
- Support early learning, school readiness, and positive transitions into Reception.
- Bring together schools, private, voluntary, and independent providers, and community partners to create clear, accessible pathways for local families.
- Coach and guide early years practitioners.
- Share best practice.
- Use data to target improvement.
- Champion inclusive practice for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
Requirements
- Qualified Teacher Status or a background as a qualified Speech and Language Therapist.
- Enhanced DBS check.
- Significant experience in Early Years.
- Thorough understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage, child development, and school readiness.
- Skilled in using outcome data to target support.
- Skilled in designing and delivering engaging workshops.
- Skilled in embedding inclusive practice for children with SEND.
- Approachable, warm, and solution-focused communicator.
- Ability to build trust with families from all backgrounds.
- Experience in leadership or mentoring.
- Confident coaching staff.
- Confident facilitating multi-agency discussions.
- Confident managing competing priorities across diverse settings.
- Deep commitment to fairness, empathy, and teamwork.
Skills
- System leadership
- Early years delivery
- Data analysis
- Workshop design and delivery
- Inclusive practice for SEND
- Coaching
- Multi-agency collaboration
- Priority management
Location
- Borough
Work Type
- Full-time
- Three-year fixed term contract
Experience Level
- Significant experience in Early Years
- Experience in leadership or mentoring
Education Level
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- New hires will start at the minimum of the advertised salary range.
- Employees receive annual salary increases until they reach the top of the pay scale.
- Employees will receive any agreed cost of living pay rises.
Benefits
- Investment in professional development
- Comprehensive wellbeing support
- Work environment that values fairness, respect, and continuous learning
About the Company
- RBKC is investing in its people, communities, and future.
- Working within Outstanding-rated Children's Services.
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses, and unique local places.
- RBKC focuses on supporting residents, strengthening its approach, and creating a fairer borough.
- RBKC is a competent and caring Council that takes pride in its work.
- RBKC listens to its residents, acts with integrity, and works together to build a borough that is greener, safer, and fairer for all.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity.
- Welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
