Healthy Early Years Coordinator

This is an exciting new opportunity. As a Healthy Early Years Coordinator, you will strategically support Hackney early years to improve pupil wellbeing and healthy habits, ensuring that early years environments are health promoting places within the community.

As the borough's Healthy Early Years lead officer, you will support early years settings to achieve the Healthy Early Years London award status; building relationships and close working relationships with early years settings, practitioners, health providers and other internal and external partnerships.

You will have experience, understanding and knowledge of the personal, social and health education curriculum and how early years can meet public health objectives including increasing opportunities for physical activity, healthy catering, healthy weight support, food poverty, emotional wellbeing and mental health, oral health and immunisation.

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Closing date: 22:59, Sunday, 13 th October 2024

Interviews: TBC

Hackney Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. As this role involves regulated activity, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and additional pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance .

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, age and marital status. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people from a black and global majority background as these groups are currently under represented in our workforce.