About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council has an exciting opportunity to support inclusive practice in the playwork and wraparound sector. This Wraparound Inclusion Adviser post is being offered on a fixed term basis until 31 August 2026. Part time work requests will be considered for this post.
The position is a mobile post, offering flexible working opportunities, and will involve a mixture of work from home, our office based in Sunley House (Papworth Everard) and visiting and supporting wraparound settings throughout Cambridgeshire (a car and driving licence will be required).
What will you be doing?
The main duties of the role will include:
- To quality improve and support identified wraparound childcare settings to ensure high quality inclusive provision
- To deliver training and advice on inclusion within playwork and wraparound childcare provision, ensuring providers meet their duties under the Equalities Act 2010 and safeguard the needs of children with SEND
- To provide advice and support to settings, with a view to supporting children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to thrive and be fully integrated into their childcare setting
- To support the development of settings to increase their capacity to provide inclusive and appropriate support for children with SEND and in other groups at risk of disadvantage.
About you
The successful candidate will need to hold a relevant qualification in early years or playwork and have a thorough understanding of the sector and how to support children with SEND, with at least two years post qualification management level experience and a minimum of five years’ experience of direct work in childcare practice.
For an informal discussion or further information about this opportunity, please contact Chris Barton by email: chris.barton@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Please ensure your supporting statement evidences how you meet the essential criteria of the person specification, with appropriate examples.
Interview date – 17th December 2025
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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