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Early Years Practitioner - Abbeyhill Primary School - EDN30786

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Posting date: 26 May 2025
Salary: £28,046.00 to £32,010.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 June 2025
Location: Edinburgh, EH7 5SJ
Company: The City of Edinburgh Council
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: EDN30786

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Early Years Practitioner - fixed term until 19/12/2025
Abbeyhill Primary School

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 7.5 per week, 39 weeks sessional

Working day for the position is Thursday.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and committed Early Years Practitioner to work within our early years team every Thursday on a fixed term basis until December 2025. The successful candidate will bring knowledge, experience, vitality, flexibility, and a passion for helping young children develop and grow through the provision of high quality learning experiences.

Abbeyhill Primary is a co-educational and non-denominational school located in the heart of Edinburgh, overlooking the Palace of Holyrood House and Arthur's Seat. The Senior Leadership Team includes a Head Teacher, Principal Teacher and Business Manager.

We pride ourselves on being at the heart of our community with strong links to the Palace, local businesses and the annual Colony of Artists festival. We fully utilise Queen's Park for Forest Adventures and outdoor learning for both our school and nursery children. Further information about the school can be found on our website: https://abbeyhillprimary.wordpress.com

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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