Early Years Practitioner - St Mary's (Leith) RC Primary School - EDN28707

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Practitioner - Fixed term until 7/2/2025
St Mary's (Leith) RC Primary School

Salary: £26,788 - £30,751 per year. (Pro-rata for part time, sessional)
Hours: 18.75 per week, 39 weeks sessional (to be worked as an asymmetrical week over a 2 week period)

St Mary’s (Leith) Primary and Nursery are looking for an EYP who can add to our supportive and caring ethos in which individual children and young people are encouraged and supported to develop self-esteem, self-confidence and respect for others. They should be able to provide an appropriately challenging and stimulating educational environment where individual children and young people are encouraged to reach their full potential.

St Mary’s (Leith) RC Primary school was built in 1920, and serves the Leith area of North East Edinburgh. The catchment area comprises of a combination of private, housing association and council housing ensuring a good social mix amongst the pupils.

Our nursery currently cares for 28 full time children and we are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic person to join our Nursery/P1 team, to contribute to the continuing development & delivery of an effective education and care service in line with the pre-determined policies and procedures of the Council.

Candidates must be able to work as a team member and establish good and effective relationships with the children, young people, staff and parents.

The hours of work will be Mondays and Tuesdays 8.00am to 4.00pm and alternate Wednesdays 8.00am – 4.00pm (less unpaid breaks). Please note this role may be based in our nursery or our Primary 1 class(es).

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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