Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Early Years Assistant - fixed term until 19/12/2025
Balgreen Nursery School
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 (pro rata for part time)
Hours: Various - see below
1. Monday and Tuesday - 18 hours per week - 8.30-6pm
2. Monday to Thursday - 14.4 hours per week - 10.45-1.45pm
At Balgreen Nursery School we welcome, respect and nurture all children and their families. Our staff team aim to create a stimulating, challenging and enjoyable environment that is responsive to each individual child. We work alongside families to promote wellbeing, independence and resilience. Through this, we aspire to give the children who attend, the best start in life.
The nursery strives to be a warm welcoming environment. Balgreen Nursery School is fortunate to have a well-established garden with many opportunities for children to learn in nature.
We are now looking to recruit enthusiastic Early Years Assistants to join our team on a fixed term contract until December 2024. Two positions are available:
1. Position 1: 18 hours per week - Monday & Tuesday, 0830 - 1800 each day
2. Position 2: 14.4 hours per week - Monday to Thursday
Please note on your application which position(s) you are applying for.
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.
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.
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.
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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