Early Years Officer
Canaan Lane Primary School
Salary: £33,287 - £39,129
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Join Our Team at Canaan Lane Primary School
We are looking for an Early Years Officer to join our team at Canaan Lane Primary School.
Our mission is to inspire and nurture lifelong learners who are equipped to embrace the opportunities and challenges of life beyond the classroom. We are forward-thinking in our approach to education, driven by a belief that every child deserves authentic and enriching learning experiences that build both skills and confidence.
Our Early Learning and Childcare setting is set within the ground floor of Canaan Lane Primary School, and we have capacity for 80 places across a range of full year and sessional placements. Our Early Learning and Childcare staff team consists of two Senior Early Years Officers, three Early Years Officers and a variety of Early Years Practitioners and Early Years Assistants. Staff are included and involved in decisions about how we are developing our approaches and the way we work to support the needs of all our learners. It is important that everyone feels part of our school family.
Our Early Learning and Childcare learners enjoy large, bright open-plan playrooms and an attractive outdoor space which is shared with our P1 learners. They have access to a local woodland area where Nature Kindergarten activities take place throughout the week.
We welcome applications from passionate and hard-working individuals who have excellent experience of working within the early years. They must be able to demonstrate their ability to provide leadership for one of our Key Worker groups and have the skills to deliver a high-quality service with enthusiasm and creativity.
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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