Early Years Assistant - Canal View Primary School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Assistant - fixed term until 26/06/2025
Canal View Primary School

Salary: £23,651 - £23,857 (pro rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 25 per week, 39 weeks sessional

The posts are to provide one to one support for pupils and will continue for the duration that the pupils are in Nursery.

The posts will be available from 12th August 2024 and the hours are 25 hours per week, Mondays to Thursdays 9.00am to 3.00pm (less 30-minute lunch break) and Fridays 9.00am to 12.00pm.

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 led by a management team of a Head Teacher, Depute Head Teacher, 2 Principal Teachers 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 Assistants.

For more information about the school, please visit our website: https://canalviewprimary.wordpress.com/ or call 0131 442 3894.

Early Years Assistants working in services registered with SCSWIS, formerly the Care Commission must either be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) prior to appointment or register within 6 months of the date of your appointment and maintain registration throughout the period of employment.

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.

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