Early Years Officer - Tynecastle Nursery School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Officer - fixed term until 29/08/2025
Tynecastle Nursery School

Salary: £32,010 - £37,626
Hours: 36 per week

Tynecastle Nursery is housed within Tynecastle Stadium in a beautiful, purpose built nursery space. Opened originally in 1929, the new nursery continues to be highly regarded within the community. The nursery benefits from a rich social and cultural mix of families and its diversity is one of its main strengths. A highly skilled, dynamic and motivated staff team support the children and families. The nursery is registered for 55 children aged 2-5 years.

We are now seeking to recruit an Early Years Officer to work with us on a fixed term basis from January to August 2025 . The successful candidate will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 0745hrs and 1800hrs, Monday - Friday, with some late shifts on rotation, within each month.

Please note - You must ensure that you have the required qualification(s) and experience before you apply, so please refer the attached documentation for requirements, or we will be unable to consider your application.

For further information or to discuss the post, please contact Tynecastle Nursery on 0131 337 5461.

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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