Early Years Practitioner - fixed term until 18/12/2026
Clermiston 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.
Clermiston Primary School is a non-denominational school which serves the Clermiston and Drumbrae area in the Northwest of the city and has a roll of 455 which includes 40 nursery pupils. The SLT consists of a Head Teacher, Depute Head Teacher, one full-time Principal Teacher, two part-time Principal Teachers and a Business Manager. The nursery team consists of an Early Years Officer, Early Years Practitioners, Early Years Assistant and Early Years Domestic Support Assistant. The school is well resourced with technology and has excellent outdoor facilities including a large and exciting nursery garden which the team are continually developing.
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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.
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.
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