Early Years Practitioner - Forthview PS Nursery

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Practitioner - fixed term until 20/12/2024
Forthview Primary School

Salary: £26,788 - £30,751 per year (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional

We have an exciting opportunity for an Early Years Practitioner to join our nursery team to support play based learning. We are proud to have a diverse school and nursery community with a wide range of nationalities represented. Forthview Primary School is a Public Private Partnership funded school opened in West Pilton, North Edinburgh in 2003 as the merger of Craigmuir and Inchview Primary Schools.

The building is modern and well maintained and accommodates 15 classrooms, a library, a meeting room/GP room, a family room, an after-school room, large gym hall and dining area. The school population has approximately 400 children and 64 full time nursery places during term time The school SLT includes HT, 2 DHT’s and 1 PT(Nursery/P1). The classes are taught by a mixture of full-time and part-time staff with a wide range of experience. There are part-time support for learning teachers in each wing and a large team of Pupil Support Assistants who are led by the depute head teacher, the SfL team and class teacher to support individuals and groups of learners. We have a family support teacher who has a wide remit and she plays a highly valued role in working between home and school as well as having a teaching commitment.

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.

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.

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.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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