Better Children's Centres are looking for casual Early Help Child and Family Practitioner's at Waterways Children's Centre in Thamesmead, South East London to help run our creches and 'stay and play' sessions. Our Children's Centres serve almost 9,400 under 5s and their families - aiming to give children equality in their early life chances as well as providing learning and guidance opportunities to help families live more fulfilling lives. 

High-quality care, education and a safe, yet enjoyable environment is of the utmost importance in our Children's Centres, so your commitment to deliver these will be key to your role. You'll be a creative thinker, able to lead and devise fun sessions for children and babies up to 5 years old in everything from song and story times to arts and crafts.

You'll have proven experience of working with under 5s and have a good knowledge of safeguarding issues and procedures. An understanding of equality and diversity issues is of the utmost importance as our service users come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures with differing needs including disabled children and those with special needs. You should have excellent communication skills as not only will you be working with our children and families but with colleagues and peers in the centres at all levels. Good written and computer skills are crucial and an NVQ Level 3 in Child Development, or equivalent, is essential.

In return, we offer a range of benefits that you'd expect from the UK's largest leisure provider:

• Pension schemes
• Discounted membership at our leisure centres 
• Career pathways
• Ongoing training and development to help you to be the best

If you have the skills, knowledge and passion for this role, apply now.

The welfare and safety of the children in our care is of the utmost importance to us at GLL. We follow safer recruitment procedures to ensure that our staff are checked and appropriate to work with children and young people. Therefore we'll require you to complete an enhance DBS check before you will be allowed to start work.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.

About Us
Better Children’s Centres are run by GLL, the UK’s largest leisure and cultural services provider and one of the first and largest leisure social enterprises. Our aim is to get more people, more active, more of the time whilst making leisure and community facilities accessible and affordable. We partner with local authorities to run leisure centres, swimming pools, libraries, children’s centres, spas, events spaces and world-class sporting venues such as the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - all under our Better brand. As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re different. Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are an Investors in People Silver Award employer.

GLL is an equal opportunities employer.