Early Years Assistant - Maybury Primary School Early Learning and Childcare

Early Years Assistant
Maybury Primary School Early Learning and Childcare

Salary: £25,905-£26,111
Hours: 18 per week

Tuesday to Friday 8.45am to 1.30pm

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Early Years Assistant to join our team, who has a passion for providing nurturing, high quality experiences for our youngest learners.

Maybury Primary School is a new school in the west of Edinburgh which opened in August 2024. In its first year, the school had Primary One children and an early learning and childcare setting which opened in January 2025.  In August 2025, the school opened to all stages - P1 to P7. Within the school, there are modern, flexible, and creative learning spaces for up to 630 learners, along with our early learning and childcare setting which has a capacity for 110 children across a mix of term-time and full-year places.

Maybury Primary School will be Edinburgh's first school to share a campus with a medical centre as part of Maybury Community Hub. Sustainability and outdoor learning are central features of the building design, and these will be brought to life as a key part of our learning experiences.

For Further information, please visit https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/new-education-buildings/new-maybury-primary-school or email mayburyps@ea.edin.sch.uk

Within our early years provision, children may attend between the hours of 8.00am - 6.00pm, 52 weeks of the year. To accommodate this, staff may work on a weekly rotational shift pattern between the hours of 7.45am and 6.15pm.

We are a service-led organisation, so we may change your hours of work and/or working arrangements to meet service requirements and commitments. Early years staff work across the early learning and childcare setting and the school.

The Early Years Practitioner must hold either HNC Child Care and Education, SVQ 3 or SCQF Level 7, Social Services, Children and Young People.

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 are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We're interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of 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.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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