Principal Teacher - Juniper Green Primary School

Principal Teacher - fixed term until 13/08/2028
Juniper Green Primary School

Salary: £57,498 - £57,498
Hours: 35 per week

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and enthusiastic teacher to join our Senior Leadership Team at Juniper Green. The successful applicant will work closely with the Head Teacher and Depute Head Teacher. The Principal Teacher will oversee First level and have additional responsibilities linked to SFL, Wellbeing and GIRFEC.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication skills and share a passion for developing and ensuring the highest possible quality of learning across the school.  They will be required to model high standards of pedagogy to inspire, motivate and support colleagues in the development of their own classroom practice.

The successful candidate will:

• Work as part of the Senior Leadership Team to take forward school the School Improvement Plan.
• Work within the Senior Leadership Team to facilitate improvements in attainment, achievement, attendance, and equalities/equity.
• Be a key part of the school's Self-Evaluation and Quality Assurance work.
• Oversee First level.
• Lead our digital strategy
• Class Contact 0.56 equivalent per week

Juniper Green Primary School is a non-denominational primary school in the South-West of the city of Edinburgh. We have a current roll of 382 children, from Primary 1 to Primary 7 with a further 64 children in our nursery.

Our 'Juni Way' is our way of being and under pins everything that we do in our school. Staff and children follow the Juni Way ensuring that everyone has the right to be respected; to be safe; and to learn and play. Our school values of kindness and respect are reflected in the Juni Way.

We have a strong sense of community, both within the school and out in the local area, and we are fully committed to helping our children to become the best people that they can be.

Our staff team works together to provide a safe, nurturing environment where every child, and their family, are valued as individuals, and where diversity is celebrated.

The principles of the Curriculum for Excellence are at the heart of our practice, and we believe that our children benefit from having opportunities for personal development, becoming involved in the ethos and wider life of the school, as well as experiencing high quality teaching and learning across all areas of the curriculum.

For further information please visit our website at www.junipergreenprimary.co.uk.

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.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We're interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of 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

Happy to talk flexible working.

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