Early Years Practitioner - Fox Covert Early Years

Job Description

Early Years Practitioner
Fox Covert Early Years Centre

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010
Hours: 36 per week (52 weeks)

Fox Covert Early Years is registered for children aged between 2-5 years, with a maximum of up to 85 learners attending our provision at any one time. Our provision offers various patterns of attendance for learners, between 8am and 6pm, 52 weeks per year.

Our staff team is friendly, supportive, energetic and passionate about our Froebelian approaches. The play environments are natural, warm and welcoming, with nurturing and richly resourced spaces, indoors and out.

We recognise all children as curious, capable learners, valuing collaboration, participation and engagement with all stakeholders. Through time, our setting has embedded a positive Growth Mindset ethos, committed to continuous professional learning that in turn supports our learners to be the best they can.

As a standalone setting, our establishment is situated within a campus alongside two Primary Schools, where two Nursery Early Years Practitioners support both Primary One classes. We are dedicated and active participants within our Learning Community and beyond.

An exciting recruitment opportunity has arisen, for an enthusiastic, dedicated and motivated Early Years Practitioner. We are searching for someone who can demonstrate passion, inquiry and energy, available to participate within shift patterns which fall between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.15hrs, Monday-Friday, with a balance of start and finish times, across a 36-hour working week.

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

For further information or to discuss the post, please contact Fox Covert Early Years on 0131 339 8625.

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.

Requirements

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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