Working with children

Introduction

Dillington Advertising Services, Somerset County Council’s in-house advertising agency are now offering the opportunity for all early years’ providers to promote their vacancies to a wider audience on www.dasjobs.co.uk.

Placing an advert on DASjobs.co.uk costs £40 per advert, per month, for each vacancy posted, and offers many benefits including:

Wider exposure for your vacancy- almost 6000 visitors each week with 53000 page views
All jobs placed on Indeed.com as well as the site
Candidates linked straight through to your site for applying
Job application forms, job descriptions, and other supporting information can be uploaded directly to the DASjobs site – no printing required
Completed applications sent direct to your inbox – no posting or envelopes needed
Your own logo on your advert.
Visitors can access using mobile phones or tablets
Discounted rates on external printed publications and job boards
Google maps location links

Please visit www.dasjobs.co.uk to view the site features

For more information, or to advertise on the www.dasjobs.co.uk site please phone the DAS team on 01823 357739 or email adverts@somerset.gov.uk

Looking for a job

You can find job vacancies working in adults and children’s social care here.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for staff working in schools and early years settings

Somerset Centre for Integrated Learning (SCIL) offers a variety of professional training opportunities to staff working with children in the early years and school sectors. We work in partnership with a variety of awarding bodies such as: Council for Awards in Children’s Education (CACHE), City and Guilds, Institute for Leadership and Management, to deliver the training courses practitioners need to respond to national and local changes. Some examples of the training we offer are:

First Aid
Safeguarding
Early Years Initial Teacher Training
Foundation degrees
Honours degrees

To see a full list of training that is relevant to early years and school staff, please visit our training page.

Somerset SCITT

The Somerset SCITT website provides full details on our foundation degrees and our practical and highly-rated PGCE courses in primary teaching and early years which give you a Qualified Teacher Status.

Chaperones

Children who take part in public performances or entertainment under a licence issued by the local authority must be supervised by an approved chaperone – unless they are in the care of their parent or an agreed tutor.

The role of the chaperone is to protect the child’s health, safety and welfare while they are where the performance is taking place.

Approved chaperones are essential to make sure that proper provision is made to secure a child’s health, safety and welfare while they are where the performance is taking place. Chaperones are required to undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as part of the approval process. There is a cost of £45 for this check and this will be invoiced to paid chaperones.

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