Early Years Practitioner - Frogston Primary School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Practitioner
Frogston Primary School

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 18 per week (Wednesday & Thursday 8.00am - 5.30pm)

This is an exciting opportunity for an Early Years Practitioner to join our team. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and will share our passion for ensuring the highest possible quality of learning for our young children.

Frogston Primary School is a non-denominational school which was established in August 2020. The school is part of the Gracemount High School cluster, along with Gracemount Primary School. The school has enough room for 420 pupils, alongside an early learning and childcare facility and inspiring outdoor spaces. Our Early Years setting has capacity for 80 pupils and offers a mix of term time and full year places for 3-5 year olds and terrific 2s. The setting is open 8-6 daily.

Further info can be found on our school website https://frogstonprimary.wordpress.com

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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