Early Year Assistant - Craigroyston Primary School

Job Description

Education, Children and Justice Services

Early Years Assistant - Fixed term until 28/11/2025
Craigroyston Primary School

Salary: £24,909 - £25,116
Hours: 36 per week

07:30 -15:45 Monday – Thursday & 08:00-13:00 Friday

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Early Years Assistant to join our ELC Team.

We welcome applications from individuals who are keen to support our work to ensure learners at Craigroyston Primary ELC develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to demonstrate the four capacities of successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.

The successful candidate will work flexibly in order to meet the needs of individual children and of the service as a whole. They will be a team player who makes valuable contributions to the planning, facilitating and evaluating of high-quality learning experiences. The successful candidate will be a competent user of ICT and have excellent communication skills.

Candidates will be expected to provide basic first aid and administer medication as appropriate. A suitable qualification in first aid or a willingness to undertake such training is essential.

Our school benefits from a diverse staff team. We have a pupil support team consisting of PSA, EYA, EYP, EYO and PSO practitioners, a vibrant ELC and 13 classes taught by a mixture of full time and part time teachers. The school has an experienced DHT, two PTs and welcomed a new HT in April 2022. Our school values ‘respect, ambition, resilience and empathy’ underpin our daily ambitions and long-term intentions. For more details, please visit our website www.craigroystonprimary.co.uk

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.

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 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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