Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Position: Early Years Practitioner
Location: Balgreen Nursery School
Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 (pro rata for sessional)
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional
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 now recruiting an experienced Early Years Practitioner to join the team at Balgreen Nursery School on a permanent basis. The candidate will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07:45 and 18:00, Monday - Friday, with some late shifts on rotation, within each 36-hour week. This is a 39-week (sessional) position.
Minimum Requirements: You must ensure that you have the required qualification(s) before you apply. Please refer to the attached documentation for requirements; otherwise, we will be unable to consider your application.
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 outside 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 ensure 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. 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 salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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