Early Years Officer - Longstone Primary School - 10457_1748966969
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,010.00 to £37,626.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH14 2DU |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10457_1748966969 |
Summary
Children, Education and Justice Services
Early Years Officer
Longstone Primary School Nursery
Salary: £32,010-£37,626 (pro rata for sessional)
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Early Years Officer to work within the nursery at Longstone Primary School. We are seeking an experienced, committed and enthusiastic person to join our team to make a contribution to the continuing development and delivery of high-quality education at the nursery.
The Early Years Officer (EYO) will act as key worker to individual children in the provision of the following services:
- Delivery of the pre-school and birth to three curriculum;
- Promotion of welfare and wellbeing of children, including child protection
- Supporting parents in a range of ways such as running parenting groups
- Liaison with other staff and organisations to ensure that individual children are kept safe and input to the development of appropriate care packages;
- Services to support children and their families delivered in partnership with schools, health staff and community education.
We invite applications from suitably qualified candidates who:
- Have a passion for supporting the care and learning of young children
- Have a sound knowledge of early years pedagogy and child development and will provide support to staff to develop play pedagogy
- Have experience of delivering high quality play experiences to children within an early learning and childcare setting (indoors and outdoors)
- Enjoy working as part of a team and are eager to make a valued contribution to a team
You will have knowledge and experience of current early learning and childcare provision and procedures. With experience of working with children, you will have an HNC/SVQ Level 3 in Childcare or equivalent
An interest in using ICT to enhance learning and teaching is desirable.
For more information about the school and nursery visit https://ferryhillprimary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://ferryhillprimary.com/
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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 https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">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.
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