Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Position: Early Years Domestic Support Assistant
Location: Balgreen Nursery School
Salary: £24,346 - £24,646 (pro rata for part time & Sessional)
Hours: 15 per week, 39 weeks (Monday - Friday, 11am - 2pm)
At Balgreen Nursery School, we welcome, respect, and nurture all children and their families. Our staff team aims 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, aspiring 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 looking for an enthusiastic Early Years Domestic Support Assistant to join our team. This position is permanent and sessional (39 weeks).
Regulated Work: 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 of the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. 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.
To improve our organisational culture and create a great workplace for the people of Edinburgh, we aim to bring 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. We recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experiences, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
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