Outdoor Education Instructor - Lagganlia Outdoor Centre

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Outdoor Education Instructor - Fixed term until 18/10/2024
Lagganlia Centre for Outdoor Learning

Salary: £30,751 - £36,312 (Pro Rata for part time)
Hours: 36 per week

This is an annualised hours contract. Total Hours for the six month period is 835 which will be programmed into 36 hour working weeks. This will equate to approximately 23 working weeks in the six month contract.

Lagganlia Centre for Outdoor Learning is part of the City of Edinburgh's Outdoor Learning Team

The team consists of two residential centres, a city based resource centre, a technical advice service and an inner city facility called the Risk Factory.

Based close to Aviemore in the Cairngorms National Park, we have recently reopened our fully refurbished high quality residential outdoor learning centre. Our primary role is to provide outdoor learning residentials for the young people of Edinburgh. We are looking to add to our existing team of highly qualified outdoor educators who can provide a wide range of adventurous experiences. Lagganlia has amazing access to a range of wilderness environments that allow it to ski/snowboard, sail, canoe, mountaineer, raft climb, kayak, canyon and mountain bike into. We also have onsite facilities that can provide archery, orienteering, skiing and high ropes activities.

Lagganlia's sets a high ambition for its outdoor education courses. Each one is tailored to the visiting school and the instructor is given the ownership to design their own programme. Our integration in Scotland Curriculum for Excellence is acclaimed and all staff must have a thorough understating and experience of how to deliver this and not just tick a box. Our deliverable outcomes are written every week by the visiting school and staff must be able to adapt their programme to achieve these.

Please see the attached Job Description for the exact requirements of this position.

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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