Senior Early Years Officer - Hope Cottage Nursery School - 11178_1755180185

Job details
Posting date:	14 August 2025
Salary:	£37,626.00 to £44,257.00 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 August 2025
Location:	Edinburgh, EH8 9HF
Remote working:	On-site only
Company:	The City of Edinburgh Council
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	11178_1755180185

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Summary

Senior Early Years Officer
Hope Cottage Nursery

Salary: £37,626 - £44,257 (pro rata for sessional)
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional

Hope Cottage is a busy term time nursery, with children attending between 8.30am and 3.15pm (11.15am on a Friday), 39 weeks per year.

We are looking for a dynamic, flexible and creative Senior Early Years Officer to join our team and lead the organisation of operational service in our warm and welcoming nursery.

You will be required to have direct responsibility for managing staff and work in collaboration with our skilled team, overseen by our Head Teacher at Preston Street Primary School. We are looking for someone who is committed to providing innovative, sustainable best practice in Early Years.

You will be a warm, outgoing and energetic member of the team.

For further information, please see attached Job Description and visit our website at
https://prestonstreetprimary.co.uk/hope-cottage-nursery-edinburgh/

<… 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.

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.

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.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">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.

View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/36694/senior-early-years-of…; target="_blank">Senior Early Years Officer job pack

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