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Early Years Advisor
We have an exceptional opportunity for a dedicated Early Years Advisor to join our team and play a key role in supporting high-quality early years provision across our services in this full-time position.
Position: Early Years Advisor
Location: Home working
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Salary: £30,000 - £32,000
Duration: Contract to 31st August 2029
Benefits: Include 26 days paid holiday (rising to 30 days with service increments) plus 8 bank holidays, Personal Pension Scheme, Healthcare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff Awards Scheme, Company Sick Pay Scheme, Flexible working opportunities
The Role
As an Early Years Advisor, you will develop products, services and training materials, and respond to sector needs. You will be responsible for the high-quality development of products and services in line with the mission to promote quality in early years.
You will work collaboratively with other Early Years Advisors and managers to support the development of products and services for UK and international customers.
Responsibilities include:
- Under the guidance of line manager and the Early Years Development Manager, work with other Early Years Advisors to support the development of high-quality products and services
- Edit and proof-read documents for relevant research-based content and accuracy, following the organisation’s style guides
- Provide advice to members as requested relating to the childcare sector
- Maintain practical experiences within a childcare setting
- Maintain up to date professional knowledge and skills within area of responsibility and the early years sector
- Attend meetings as required (virtual and face to face)
- Achieve own annual KPIs and assist in the achievement of organisational objectives
- Report progress to management.
About You
We are looking for someone with:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in early years
- Significant and recent demonstrable experience in leading practice as an early years professional or teacher
- Development and review of training and resources to improve early years practice
- Effective time management
- Using sound research-based evidence to develop written material
- Delivery against targets and deadlines
- Strong customer service or related experience
- Multi-agency partnership working
- Expertise in early years SEND would be advantageous but not mandatory.
To apply you will be asked to submit your CV along with a covering letter detailing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role.
About the Organisation
The organisation is a national charity and membership association specifically for nurseries working in partnership with nurseries, local authorities, national government and a range of partners to develop an environment in which early learning and care can flourish.
The organisation is committed to a policy of equal opportunities and is actively opposed to discrimination in society.
You may have experience in areas such as Early Years Advisor, Early Years, Teacher, Primary Teacher, Early Years Teacher, Advisor, Programme Advisor.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
We are looking to recruit HopeLine24/7 Advisers to provide individually tailored suicide prevention advice and guidance to young people and those who are concerned for them via our national multi-channel helpline HopeLine24/7 and deliver suicide prevention training online and in community settings across the UK.
What you will do:
- Work as part of a team providing suicide prevention support to a range of clients via multichannel communication platforms.
- Work on a 7-day shift system
- Use professional judgement to assess the needs of the service users who present with risk to life and manage and report any matters related to safeguarding.
- Maintain accurate records and input data monitoring into the data base system.
- Participate in clinical supervision and reflective practise.
- Provide training, mentoring and coaching to new recruits.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- a degree or professional qualification in Health or Social Care, Community Work or a related discipline
- previous experience of working in an advisory capacity in suicide prevention or mental health
- a proven record of working directly with vulnerable young people
- experience of providing advice and guidance via multiple communication channels
- the ability to empathise, support and build rapport with suicidal people and those who care about them, remaining non-judgemental and adhering to the remit of the service
Salary: £16,230.50 per annum progressing incrementally to £17,944.67 per annum. (Scale point 24-28). As a night shift worker, you will receive an additional allowance of £10 per night shift. This will be paid on a monthly basis along with the salary.
Hours: 16.5 hours per week – 2 nights per week.
Working arrangements: This role will work shifts starting at 10:25pm and finishing at 7:40am. Shifts will be on a rota bases across a 7-day working week.
Location: Broad Street, Birmingham
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: You will receive 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time workers), an attractive pension scheme, Simply Health membership and enhanced sick pay. Please visit our website for more details.
Closing date: Midnight 2nd August 2026
We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier if we receive sufficient applications so, please submit your application as soon as possible.
PAPYRUS is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its recruitment policies are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
PAPYRUS is committed to safeguarding all children, young people and adults at risk that interact with the organisation. The organisation recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The charity expects all staff and volunteers to fully support and promote these commitments.
To prevent suicide with urgent support, education, campaigns and conversations that keep young people safe – and hope alive.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a Safeguarding Lead to provide dedicated safeguarding leadership as our flagship Drive Project working with high-harm, high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse, scales across England and Wales. Acting as a Safeguarding Lead, you'll hold oversight of safeguarding governance across our network, lead a shift from compliance towards collaborative, relational learning, and support delivery partners as a trusted peer and source of expertise. This is a pivotal, newly created role for someone energised by culture change, skilled at holding both accountability and compassion, and comfortable working in complexity.
Closing date: Tuesday 25th August, 9am. Please refer to the job description for further details.
To apply, please visit Respect UK website
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
