Childcare Recruitment
Childcare Jobs
Search for childcare jobs in Oxfordshire
Information Events
Childcare Jobs Interview Guide
Childminding
Training for a Career in Childcare
Support for Childcare Providers
Recruitment and Retention
Pay and Conditions Survey
Age Discrimination
Promoting Childcare as a Career
We offer advice and information for anyone interested in working with children in early years playwork and childcare.
Julie Edwards is our Childcare Recruitment Manager. She works closely with schools, colleges and Job Centre Plus, as well as many organisations involved in children’s services, to promote childcare as a career. She has many years childcare experience as a registered childminder and mother of three. Jenny Iles is the Childcare Recruitment Officer and has extensive knowledge of the childcare sector. She was with OCIS when it was first set up in 2001 and has worked on the helpline for much of the time since then until joining the Recruitment
Team in January 2008.
Thinking about working with children?
You do not necessarily need to have any qualifications or experience to get started. As long as you possess the right skills and qualities and are willing to train towards a qualification you could have the potential to change children's lives for the better. Working with children in Oxfordshire is rewarding, challenging, and interesting.
Contact the recruitment team for a childcare recruitment pack.
If you are interested in working with children in your own home you can ask the general helpline for a childminding information pack.
Call 08452 26 26 36 and select option 1 or email enquiries@oxoncis.org.uk.
Search for childcare jobs in Oxfordshire (The * asterisk next to a vacancy shows jobs suitable for people with no experience or qualifications in childcare who would be willing to undertake training.)
For more general information about working in childcare click here.
Information Events
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Childcare Job Interview GuideAre you thinking about a career or applying for a job in early education, childcare or playwork?
This guide will help you:
- write your CV and
- prepare yourself for an interview.
Many people let themselves down by not completing application forms correctly and not preparing sufficiently for interview. This guide is full of handy hints, tips and advice on how you can give yourself the best opportunity to get that job offer!
Contact the recruitment team for a Childcare Job Interview Guide.
Childminding
What is a childminder?
'A childminder is a person who looks after one or more children under the age of eight for more than two hours a day on domestic premises (other than the child’s own home), for reward.'
- ‘Domestic premises’ normally means your home.
- ‘Reward’ can be money or payment in kind.
- Childminders need to be registered with Ofsted.
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Before you become a childminder you need to consider:
- What service you can offer;
- How flexible you can be to meet the needs of parents and their families;
- What childcare is there already in your area;
- How will your service complement or enhance the childcare already available.
A childminder is self employed and, like any small business, you need to market your service. Contact OCIS to help you with getting your details to parents.
Training for a career in childcare
There is funding available for anybody wishing to achieve a childcare qualification in Oxfordshire. There are a number of ways that you can study – at college, in the work place, or at home.
To find out more about courses happening around the county contact the Childcare Training Helpline:
Support for Childcare Providers
Advertise your job vacancies free in our monthly Careers In Childcare newsletter and on the website.
To advertise your vacancy call 08452 26 26 36 or email julie.edwards@oxoncis.org.uk and request a Job Vacancy Form or complete the form on line. Please complete the form with as much information as possible. Click here for Job Vacancy Form.
We will add adverts to the website as soon as we can when we receive job vacancy details. However the deadline for jobs to be included in the newsletter is 22nd of each month at 11am.
Administrators OCIS can also advertise administrative jobs in childcare settings, pre-schools and out of school schemes run by voluntary management committees.
To order the free guides Good Practice Guide for Early Years, Childcare and Play work providers (GPGproviders) and Recruitment and Retention of Disabled People (GPGproviders/disabled) please contact the DfES on 0845 60 222 60 or email: dfes@prolog.uk.com and quote the codes above.
Pay and Conditions Survey
OCIS completed a Pay and Conditions survey. The results of the survey should give providers valuable local information on the salaries and benefits being offered for a variety of roles across the county. We hope that this information will assist providers when setting staff wage rates which will, in turn, improve the retention rate of childcare staff across Oxfordshire. We did not include Pre-schools in the survey as the Pre-school Learning Alliance had recently undertaken their own survey. The findings of this research can be found on their website www.pre-school.org.uk under 'Research' and available in pdf format as 'Regional Analysis of Alliance Early Years settings 2006 (published April 2007).
The Age Discrimination Act
This came into force on 1st October 2006. To find out more click here
Promoting childcare as a career
If you are a school careers adviser we can offer your students a talk about childcare as a career. This would cover job prospects, skills and qualities required, courses and career progression.
Email: julie.edwards@oxoncis.org.uk
Tel: 08452 26 26 36
