Early Years Domestic Support - Maybury Primary School

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Early Years Domestic Support 
Maybury Primary School

Salary: £24,346 - £24,646 (pro-rata for part-time)
Hours 15 per week, 52 weeks

Working pattern for the position Monday to Thursday 10.30am - 2.15pm.

We are looking to recruit Early Years Domestic Support to join our team who can bring energy, enthusiasm, flexibility and a passion for helping young children.

Duties include setting the tables, temperature checking and serving food, maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in the kitchen, clearing, cleaning and sweeping up the dining areas, washing all associated crockery and cutlery . Elementary Food Hygiene certificate is desirable but not essential as training can be given.

Maybury Primary School is a new school in the west of Edinburgh which opened in August 2024. In its first year, the school will have Primary One children and an early learning and childcare setting which opened in January 2025.  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 124 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 admin@maybury.edin.sch.uk

Within our early years provision, children may attend between the hours of 8.00am - 6.00pm, 52 weeks of the year.

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.

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.

Requirements

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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