Early Years Officer - Lorne Primary School

Job Description

Education and Children's Services

Early Years Officer - Fixed term until 28/06/2025
Lorne Primary School Nursery

Salary: £32,010 - £37,626 (pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional

The applicant must be eligible for registration (without conditions) with the SSSC as a Practitioner in Day Care of Children, in possession of a practice qualification as noted in the attached job profile.

Lorne Nursery offers Early Learning and Childcare to children aged 3-5 years.
At Lorne, we are committed to providing an excellent early years’ experience, based on mutual respect, partnership and participation. We are looking to recruit a full-time, passionate and driven Early Years Officer to join our existing nursery team until the end of session 24/25.

The successful applicant must demonstrate experience in forming good relationships with children, parents, staff and the wider community. Through the recruitment process, they will need to demonstrate enthusiasm, energy, commitment, initiative, optimism and flexibility to their work.

Early Years Officer Responsibilities:

• To be the lead practitioner within the Early Years Team and share knowledge and experience
• To be the key worker for designated children
• To contribute to child plans, IEPs and children’s planning meetings
• To provide personal care, promote welfare and wellbeing for all children
• To report on progress in learning journals and transition reports
• To share knowledge and skills within collegiate times and in-service days
• To take responsibility for the development and implementation of the curriculum)
• To support colleagues within the Early Years setting offering advice and guidance
• To take a lead role in parental engagement and liaison with partner services and agencies
• To building transition programmes
• To mentor staff
• To oversee medical consent, KIC forms for outings and excursions
• To clean and maintain the nursery environment
• To participate in appropriate professional staff development opportunities, in service, refresher training as deemed appropriate
• To ensure that practice reflects How Good is our Early Learning, Realising the Ambition and Childcare and the National Care Standards, SSSC

This post is subject to review and there is a chance that the successful candidate could be moved to a different school in the future.

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.

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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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