Location: Balgreen Nursery School 175 Balgreen Road Edinburgh, EH11 3AT
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 per year
Contract Type: Temporary
Position Type: Part Time
Hours: 14.4 hours per week
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Early Years Assistant - Fixed Term till 19/12/2025
Balgreen Nursery School
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 14.4 per week, 39 weeks sessional
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 for an enthusiastic Early Years Assistant to join our team on a fixed term contract until 19 December 2025. This position is for 14.4 hours per week, over 39 weeks with the working pattern to be agreed.
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.
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.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
Applications for this job cannot be made online. Please refer to the advert for further information.
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