Senior Early Years Officer - Fixed term until 7/11/
Gylemuir Primary School
Salary - £39, - £46,
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Gylemuir Primary School is a busy Nursery with capacity for children aged 2-5 years. The children attend various patterns of attendance between 8am and 6pm, 52 weeks per year. Our Senior Early Years Officers lead the Early Years Officers, Practitioners and Assistants in providing high quality early learning and childcare and spend 50% of their time in the playrooms. We are looking for an energetic and motivated individual to lead our early years team to deliver the very best for our children and Families. Please see attached job profile for essential criteria for this role.
The person must hold an HNC/SVQ3 in a relevant Childhood Practice award and an advanced early years qualification which accords with the requirements of the Standard for Childhood Practice and meet SSSC registration requirements without conditions.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. 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.
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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.