HAF and School Aged Childcare Officer
SO1 (£34,434 - £39,152)
37 Hours, Full Time
Temporary (12 months with the potential for extension)
Hybrid - Stopford House and home working (2-3 days in the office in line with business need)
Application Deadline: 12 July 2026 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 13 July 2026
Interview Date: 23 July 2026
Interview Type: Face to face
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Your Role
You will play a key role in bringing together Stockport’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme and wider school-aged childcare offer, helping to ensure families can easily access high-quality, inclusive provision.
Working closely with providers, schools and partners, you will coordinate day-to-day delivery, maintain accurate systems and data, and support effective programme delivery across the year. You will help ensure strong engagement from providers and families, contributing to high take-up and a consistent quality offer.
The role will also support monitoring, reporting and ongoing development of childcare provision, helping the Council meet its responsibilities around childcare sufficiency and national programme requirements.
About You
You will be highly organised, detail-focused and confident managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
You will:
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Have strong coordination and administrative skills, with the ability to keep systems, data and processes accurate and up to date
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Be confident working with a range of partners, including schools, providers and community organisations
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Be able to interpret information and support reporting to inform service improvement
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Have good communication skills and be able to build positive working relationships
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Be proactive, flexible and solution-focused in response to changing needs
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Experience of working with childcare, education or family services and an understanding of the challenges families face in accessing childcare would be an advantage.
About Us
This role sits within Stockport Family, our integrated children’s service bringing together care, education and health to provide a coordinated offer for children, young people and families.
As part of this wider system, the HAF and School Aged Childcare team works with schools, providers and communities to deliver accessible, high-quality childcare and holiday provision. We focus on ensuring families can easily navigate support, with a strong emphasis on inclusion, sufficiency and improving outcomes across the borough.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Fiona Berry on [email protected] for an informal discussion about the role
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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