Early Years Consultant (secondment)

Chester Diocesan Academies Trust, Runcorn, WA7 4QX

7 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  9 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £300.00 Daily One day per week, 38 weeks. £300 day rate paid directly to the employing school

Early Years Consultant (secondment) job summary

Are you an experienced early years practitioner looking to expand your impact and gain valuable system leadership experience? CDAT is seeking a passionate and driven individual to join us on a one-year secondment as an Early Years Consultant. This is a unique professional development opportunity to work collaboratively across our schools, sharing best practices and driving improvements in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) provision.

Job DescriptionJob Purpose

To work under the strategic direction of the CDAT EYFS Lead to provide high-quality support, guidance, and challenge to Early Years settings across the Trust. You will help schools develop and sustain inclusive, high-quality EYFS provision, improve educational outcomes for all children, and close achievement gaps.

Main Responsibilities and Duties

• Conduct targeted advisory visits to allocated schools across the trust, evaluating the quality of EYFS practice and environment.

• Work collaboratively with school leaders, early years leads, and practitioners to co-produce robust action plans and practical solutions to improve provision.

• Use professional knowledge to mentor early years staff, offering hands-on advice, model teaching, or coaching to build capacity within schools. This may include hosting visits to your own setting.

• Support settings in utilising data effectively to monitor the quality of education and adapt the curriculum and provision accordingly.

• Liaise regularly with the CDAT EYFS Lead and school leadership teams to ensure timescales, standards, and strategic trust priorities are achieved seamlessly.

• Assist in researching current issues (such as Ofsted regulations and framework updates) to help create or update training materials and digital resources for trust-wide use.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Chester Diocesan Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Chester Diocesan Academies Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chester-diocesan-academies-trust

CDAT was established by the Chester Diocesan Board of Education in 2014. Since our inception, we have developed our vision to build thriving learning communities that provide everyone with the opportunity to achieve the very best with their gifts and abilities.

CDAT is a fully inclusive trust. Our vision and ethos are firmly rooted in clear, core Christian values, but we are happy to work with both church and community schools, and our schools welcome people of all faiths and none. We offer an educational experience that is rooted in faith, hope and love. We support our schools to ensure that their vision permeates all aspects of school life.

Children are at the heart of CDAT. We want each individual to develop knowledge, skills, understanding and wisdom, underpinned by values based on principles that are important to people of all faiths and no faith.

‘Jesus said, ‘I have come in order that you might have life, life in all its fullness.’ (John 10:10)

CDAT wants every child to experience ‘life in all its fullness’: to have outstanding learning opportunities; opportunities to act, sing, dance, play sport and be artistic; opportunities to make lifelong friendships, help those in need and become full and rounded individuals; opportunities to develop and pursue ambitions. In short, we want the very best for all of our children.

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