Early Years Stronger Practice Adviser (EYSPAs) Childminder Adviser

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced early years professional to make a real impact supporting childminders to improve quality and helping give children the best start in life.

As a Childminder Early Years Stronger Practice Adviser, your experience and passion will be instrumental in building professional confidence, driving continuous improvement, and embedding evidence-informed approaches across the sector. You might be supporting childminders identified by Ofsted as needing improvemenrt, or those with high numbers of EYPP, 2 year-old offer, or children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) or English as an additional language (EAL). Previous experts or mentors from the covid recovery programme are encouraged to apply.

The Childminder EYSPA must be available for 3 days face to face training between September – December 2026. Bespoke deployments would start from January 2027.

The Childminder EYSPA will operate with reimbursement made to your setting. Payment will depend on deployments and hours worked, at an allocated day rate of £400 per day. This must include any travel and subsistence costs. The roles are funded up until March 2028 in the first instance, with the possibility of contracts being extended dependent on funding.

• Childminder EYSPA (1 role): You will currently be working as a childminder/childminder assistant or be working within a local authority supporting childminders.

Childminder EYSPA will support one cluster of up to four childminders per term. To provide bespoke, targeted support to improve practice, build professional confidence, and support continuous improvement across the settings through coaching, modelling best practice and providing opportunities for reflection. As you will be supporting a cluster, this is likely to be done virtually. 

You will have experience of working with children aged between 0 to 4 years old in an early childhood education context and will be qualified to level 3 for the Childminder EYSPA role.

Closing date: Friday 24th July 2026

Shortlising: Monday 27th July

Interview dates: Thursday 30th July or Monday 3rd August (afternoon/evening)

Please select the expression of interest form below. Send this completed form with your current CV to EYSPH@caverstede.peterborough.sch.uk. Please advise in the email the date and times you are available on the interview dates detailed above.

If you would like to speak to the SPA Lead, Debbie Hayes, please call 01733 571742 or email EYSPH@caverstede.peterborough.sch.uk