Early Years Supervisor

🌟 We're Hiring!  We are delighted to advertise two exciting Early Years Supervisor opportunities 🌟
📍 Gold Sure Start (Killeenan & Cookstown)
📅 Permanent
🕘 2 x 20 hours per week 
💷 £28,928.02 - £34773.37 FTE (pro rata - hourly rate is £15.04 per hour)

These roles offer a fantastic opportunity to lead high-quality early years provision and make a real difference to children aged 0–4 years and their families.

🌈 Post 1: Early Years Supervisor – Killeenan Developmental Programme

📍 Base: St Joseph's, Killeenan

This role will lead the delivery of our Killeenan Developmental Programme, ensuring children experience a safe, nurturing and stimulating early learning environment.

You will:
✨ Lead and support an Early Years team
✨ Deliver high-quality developmental sessions for young children
✨ Use your knowledge of child development to identify early learning needs
✨ Observe, assess and record children's progress
✨ Develop individual action plans and contribute to reviews
✨ Build strong relationships with parents/carers and partner agencies

🚐🎨 Post 2: Early Years Supervisor – Outreach Play Team

📍 Cookstown 

This is a really exciting leadership opportunity to take the lead on Gold Sure Start's Outreach Play Programme, bringing play-based learning directly into communities.

You will:
✨ Lead and coordinate the Outreach Play Team
✨ Plan and deliver engaging play sessions
✨ Create inclusive, safe and stimulating play environments
✨ Support early intervention 
✨ Work closely with families in community settings
✨ Collaborate across disciplines to support children and families

📌 Person Specification (Both Posts)

✨ Essential Criteria

Applicants must clearly demonstrate in their application how they meet all of the following:

✔ NVQ Level 3 in Childcare, Learning and Development or QCF Level 2 in Playwork or Childcare Learning and Development (or an equivalent qualification)

✔ Relevant experience working  with children aged 0–4 years

✨Desirable Criteria

✔ Experience of supervising, mentoring or supporting staff within a childcare or early years setting

✔ Experience of communicating effectively with parents/carers regarding their children's needs

Additional Requirements

🚗 A full, current driving licence and access to a car are essential due to service delivery across a wide geographical area within Mid Ulster
(Applicants with a disability that prevents them from driving may provide evidence of alternative mobility arrangements.)

📄 Business insurance will be required if appointed

📌 Please refer to the Additional Information Sheet for full details of each role and ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria. Applicants may apply for one or both posts.

📅 Key Information

📩 Contact: recruitment.support@barnardos.org.uk
⏰ Closing Date: Midnight, 8 February 2026
📋 A waiting list will be held for similar vacancies arising within the next 12 months
🔍 The successful applicant(s) will be required to complete an Enhanced Access NI with Child Barred List check and Social Services vetting

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.  

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