Description
Early Years Practitioner - fixed term until 29/10/2027
Frogston Primary School
Salary: £29,173 - £33,287 (pro-rata for sessional)
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional
This is an exciting opportunity for an Early Years Practitioner to join our team. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and will share our passion for ensuring the highest possible quality of learning for our young children. The successful candidate will be included in Primary 1 classroom rotation and play a key role in Primary 1 transition.
Frogston Primary School is a non-denominational school which was established in August 2020. The school is part of the Gracemount High School cluster, along with Gracemount Primary School. Our Early Years setting has capacity for 80 pupils and offers a mix of term time and full year places for 3-5 year olds and terrific 2s. The setting is open 8-6 daily.
The person must hold an HNC/SVQ3 in a relevant Childhood Practice Award and meet SSSC requirements without conditions.
Further info can be found on our school website
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.
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.
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Responsibilities
Experience
Experience of working with children (special needs, if applicable)
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Ability to work within and across a multi-disciplinary team
Ability to make informed decisions
Ability to work with children across a nursery &/or primary setting
Ability to produce and maintain accurate records relating to a child's development
Possess an awareness of up-to-date professional knowledge and current initiatives
An awareness of general Health & Safety and Child Protection policies
Promotion of equality and an understanding of diversity issues relating to children and young people
Qualifications and training
HNC in Childcare and Education or SVQ Level 3 or Social Services (Children and Young People) SCQF Level 7.
Job specific requirements
Registered with SSSC as a Practitioner in the Day Care of Children, without conditions.