Early Years Practitioner - fixed term until 26/06/
Fox Covert Primary School
Salary: £29, - £33,
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Fox Covert Early Years is a large, busy setting, with capacity for 85 children at any one time, attending various patterns of attendance between 8am and 6pm, 52 weeks per year. We work alongside our excellent term time Forest Kindergarten team, offering a blended placement for families who choose this pattern.
The Nursery is staffed with a friendly, supportive, energetic and passionate team, following a Froebelian approach. Our environments and natural, warm and welcoming, with nurturing and rich spaces, both indoors and out.
We have developed a positive Growth Mindset ethos, where everyone is encouraged to be the best we can.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, dedicated and motivated Early Years Practitioner to join us on a fixed term basis. We are searching for someone who can demonstrate passion, inquiry, energy.
This position is full time, 36 hours per week, and the successful candidates will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.00hrs, Monday - Friday, with some late shifts on rotation, within each month.
You must ensure that you have the required qualification(s) and experience before you apply, so please refer to the attached documentation for requirements, or we will be unable to consider your application.
For further information or to discuss the post, please contact Fox Covert Early Years on .
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.
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.
Happy to talk flexible working.