About the role
Best Start in Life (BSIL) Early Years Practitioner
Location: North Northamptonshire (East Northants Family Hub - Oundle)
30 Hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 3:30pm
Are you passionate about early childhood development and ready to make a meaningful impact for local families? We’re building something exciting — and we want you to be part of it.
North Northamptonshire is expanding its Family Hubs network in line with the national Best Start for Life programme, and we’re looking for an enthusiastic, child-centred BSIL Early Years Practitioner to join the team.
Travel between Oundle and Rushden Family Hubs will be required.
Previous applicants need not apply.
What will you be doing?
1. Plan and deliver play-based learning sessions in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
2. Support parents to understand and nurture their child’s development through practical, everyday strategies
3. Deliver evidence-based parenting programmes, including for families with SEND
4. Promote school readiness by building confidence in the home learning environment
5. Work closely with colleagues across health, early years, and social care as an Family Help Champion
6. Contribute to assessments and help shape intervention plans that really make a difference
About you
We’re seeking someone who’s warm, creative, and confident in working with families from all backgrounds. You’ll understand the challenges some families face and know how to offer respectful, practical support that empowers and encourages.
• Level 3 qualification in Early Years, Childcare or similar
• Experience working directly with young children and their families
• Strong knowledge of child development, parenting support, and early intervention approaches
• The ability to work flexibly and travel across North Northamptonshire as required
• Confidence in responding to safeguarding concerns appropriately and in line with procedures
If you’re also trained in Signalong, First Aid, or Food Hygiene, that’s a bonus — but not essential.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be joining a passionate, ambitious team committed to improving life outcomes for children from birth upwards. We value creativity, teamwork, and a “can-do” attitude — and we’ll support you with regular supervision, training, and opportunities to shape the future of our local Family Hubs.
Some evening and weekend work may be required, but we offer flexibility, variety, and the opportunity to be part of something that matters.
Ready to help build brighter beginnings? Apply now and be part of our Best Start for Life mission in North Northamptonshire.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
7. a competitive salary
8. a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
9. lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
10. generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
11. hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)