ROLE: EARLY YEARS SPECIALIST (ACCESS AND INCLUSION) (MONAGHAN)
UNIT: National Early Years Quality Development
DIRECTORATE: Better Start
GRADE: 2
REPORTING TO: Better Start Team Leader
ROLE PURPOSE/ SUMMARY
_Better Start National Early Years Quality Development Initiative was
established in **Apply on the website** by the Department of Children
and Youth Affairs in association with the Department of Education and
Skills to co-ordinate the work of existing State-funded supports for
quality in early year?s settings and to manage the Early Years
Specialist Service. This Service works with early years settings in a
mentoring capacity to promote and develop the quality of practice, as
set out in S?olta, the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood
Education, and Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework. _
_Better Start is a Government initiative. It is fully funded by the
Department of Children and Youth Affairs and is hosted by Pobal on
behalf of the Department. _
_In June **Apply on the website**, an Inter-Departmental Group led by
the Department of Children and Youth Affairs with representatives from
the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Health
and other Statutory and specialist agencies was established to agree a
model that would support access to the Early Childhood Care and
Education (ECCE) programme for children with a disability. A model for
inclusion was developed and implementation of this model of
Government-funded supports commenced in **Apply on the website**. As
part of this implementation, the Better Start Early Years Specialist
Inclusion Service was developed. Applications are now being invited
for Early Years Specialists to be appointed to fill vacancies to
implement the access and inclusion model. _
The role of the Early Years Specialist (Access and Inclusion) is to
support a range of diverse early years ECCE settings to assist them in
enabling inclusive practice and the optimal participation of a child
with disability in the pre-school room. The Early Years Specialist,
(Access and Inclusion) team will work in partnership with the
management/staff to develop and implement the service which will be
informed by the core elements of S?olta and Aistear.
_PLEASE SEE JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION ATTACHED BELOW_
SELECTION PROCESS
Selection will involve short listing of applicants for interview based
on the criteria for the position as outlined in this job description
and person specification.
The complete job spec, application form and further information can be
found on the Pobal website?
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
