Principal Teacher - Canal View Primary School - 10925_1752759006
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,155.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH14 2SL |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10925_1752759006 |
Summary
Principal Teacher
Canal View Primary School
Salary: £55,155 - £55,155
Hours: 35 per week
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed Principal Teacher to join our Senior Leadership Team at Canal View Primary School. The Principal Teacher will oversee Wellbeing, Sustainability, Digital and Outdoor Learning within the school.
Applicants should be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication skills and share a passion for developing and ensuring the highest possible quality of learning across the school. They will be required to model high standards of pedagogy to inspire, motivate and support colleagues in the development of their own classroom practice.
Canal View Primary School serves the community of Wester Hailes. The school has a broad social mix and the catchment contains areas of multiple deprivation with 77% of our learners living in SIMD 1 and 2. The school receives both Positive Action funding and Pupil Equity funding. Canal View Primary School is organised into fourteen classes from P1-7 and has a Nursery offering 64 full-time places.
The school is currently led by a management team of a Head Teacher, a Depute Head Teacher, a Principal Teacher and a Business Manager. There are eighteen class teachers and three part-time Support for Learning Teachers ably supported by a School Administrator, Pupil Support Assistants, two Pupil Support Officers and a Facilities Technician. The Nursery has a Senior Early Years Officer, an Early Years Officer, a team of Early Years Practitioners, Early Years Assistants and Early Years Domestic Support Assistants.
For more information about the school, please visit our website: https://canalviewprimary.wordpress.com/ or call 0131 442 3894.
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.
Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.
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.
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