Early Years Assistant - Brunstane Primary School

Job Description

Education and Children's Service's

Early Years Assistant 
Brunstane Primary School

Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 (pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 27.50 per week, 39 week sessional

This post is an exciting opportunity to work within Brunstane Primary School. Our Early Years Assistants work across P1-P7, nursery and our Enhanced Support Base.

At Brunstane Primary School we aim to create a safe, welcoming, inclusive and aspirational ethos for all of our learners. We treat all children as individuals and work together as a school community to support all children to reach their full personal potential.

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic person to join our team, to contribute to the continuing development and delivery of high-quality education at the school. Candidates must be able to evidence their experience of working with Early Years and/or Primary-aged pupils.

The successful candidate will be a conscientious and reliable individual with a kind and caring nature. They will have excellent inter-personal and communication skills and will also be a strong team player.

The hours of work are 8.40am - 3.25pm Monday to Thursday (15+30 min breaks) and 8.40am to12.25pm Friday (15 min break).

For more information about the school, please visit the website https://brunstaneps.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.

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