Role: Quality & Education Advisor
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time: 40 hours per week
Salary: Up to £48,000 per annum
Location: Covering settings across London area initially with scope for role to widen geographically as Chalk continues to grow.
Job Scope:
The Quality & Education Advisor supports the Q&E Manager in maintaining consistently high standards of early years practice, safeguarding and curriculum delivery across all Chalk settings. This hands‑on role strengthens pedagogy, champions the Chalk Safeguarding Commitment Framework, and helps ensure that every child is celebrated as joyfully individual.
The role plays a key part in supporting compliance with the EYFS, statutory guidance and Chalk policies and procedures, contributing to quality assurance, continuous improvement and Ofsted readiness across the group.
Role Objectives:
Quality Assurance & Safeguarding
- Support delivery of Chalk’s quality assurance programme.
- Embed the Chalk Safeguarding Commitment Framework.
- Support Ofsted readiness through coaching and documentation checks.
- Support nurseries to meet EYFS requirements and statutory guidance throughregular quality visits, compliance checks and professional dialogue.
- Support the monitoring of compliance with Chalk policies and procedures, escalating concerns and supporting timely improvement actions where required.
Educational Practice & Curriculum
- Provide hands‑on curriculum implementation support.
- Coach on interactions, observation, assessment and planning.
- Adapt curriculum delivery to each child's needs and strengths.
- Support leaders and teams to create high-quality, enabling learning environments that reflect the EYFS, support child development, inclusivity and meet Chalk quality standards.
- Monitor the quality, safety and suitability of learning environments, ensuring practice aligns with policy, safeguarding and health and safety expectations
Support for Practitioners & Leaders
- Model best practice and build practitioner capability.
- Support and provide CPD opportunities, reflective practice and training.
- Promote a culture of learning and improvement.
- Provide supportive challenge to leaders and practitioners to strengthen practice, compliance and outcomes for children.
Key Responsibilities:
Quality & Compliance
- Conduct quality visits, supporting Chalk standards
- Track improvement actions and provide follow‑up support.
- Promote safeguarding excellence.
- Conduct quality audits and compliance checks in line with the agreed audit schedule, including EYFS requirements, safeguarding, documentation, learning environments and chalk standards
- Record findings clearly, contribute to RAG-rated outcomes and support settings to implement targeted improvement actions.
- Check compliance with policies and procedures and support teams to understand expectations and embed them consistently into daily practice.
- Monitor and respond to changes in early years legislation, statutory guidance and sector best practice, ensuring settings are informed, supported and compliant.
- Share relevant sector updates, research and legislative changes with leaders and practitioners through coaching, training and quality visits.
- Support settings to implement changes to practice, policies or environments arising from updated guidance or legislation.
- Act as the area DSL and be the first point of contact for managers for safeguarding matters
Curriculum & Pedagogy
- Support delivery of an engaging, inclusive curriculum.
- Model best‑practice pedagogy.
- Facilitate coaching and reflective conversations.
Coaching & Professional Development
- Identify CPD priorities.
- Celebrate progress and build team confidence.
- Support the delivery of training and coaching linked to EYFS, quality improvement and compliance priorities.
- Share up-to-date sector knowledge, best practice and insights with settings, supporting continuous professional development.
Collaboration & Communication
- Build respectful relationships with managers and teams.
- Communicate clearly and kindly.
- Escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately.
- Work collaboratively with the wider Quality and Education team to ensure consistent messages, approaches and standards across all sites.
Person Specification:
Qualifications
- Level 3+ in Early Years (Level 6 desirable).
- Safeguarding training to Level 3 or willingness to upskill.
Experience
- Management experience in early years settings.
- Understanding of Ofsted frameworks.
- Experience mentoring or supporting colleagues.
- Experience supporting quality improvement, audits or compliance monitoring within early years settings.
Skills & Abilities
- Strong communication grounded in Empathy and Kindness.
- Deep understanding of safeguarding.
- Confident in modelling practice and coaching.
- Reflective, organised, ambitious
- Good understanding of the EYFS, statutory requirements and the role of policies and procedures in maintaining safe, high-quality practice.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle and willingness to travel between sites
Personal Attributes
- Aligned with Chalk’s PEAK values.
- Warm, solution‑focused and proactive.
- Dedicated to celebrating every child as joyful individuals
- Able to balance supportive coaching with professional challenge to drive improvement
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Pay: Up to £48,000.00 per year
Experience:
- Leadership: 2 years (required)
- Nursery: 5 years (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
