Early Years Assistant - East Craigs Primary School - EDN28125

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Assistant - Fixed term until 27/06/2025
East Craigs Primary School

Salary: £23,651 - £23,857 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 18 per week, 39 weeks sessional

East Craigs Primary Nursery Class is looking to recruit a motivated Early Years Assistant who is passionate about working with children to join our nursery team.

The successful candidate will be providing 1-1 support to a nursery pupil whilst working collaboratively with the rest of the nursery team, helping to contribute to the care and education of our children. At East Craigs Nursery Class our vision is to promote a safe, secure, and nurturing learning environment in which children become capable, confident, resilient and responsible individuals.

East Craigs Primary School is a busy and vibrant school with a current role of 450 across primary and nursery. The Senior Leadership Team includes a Head Teacher, two Deputy Head Teachers, a Principal Teacher and Business Manager.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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