Senior Early Years Officer - Sighthill Early Years Centre

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Senior Early Years Officer - fixed term until 13/06/2025
Sighthill Early Years Centre

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717 (pro-rata for part time)
Hours: 18 per week, 52 weeks - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Sighthill Early Learning and Childcare offers high quality learning and play experiences to children from birth to 3 years of age, where nurturing and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do. We work in partnership with our families to promote children’s learning and development; helping to close the attainment gap and ensure equity for all. Our setting is a very natural environment with a large outdoor area. We encourage our team to strive for high standards with support and development opportunities available at all levels.

We are now seeking to recruit a passionate and committed Senior Early Years Officer to join our team on a fixed term basis basis as we continue to develop our service. The hours of work are:

Monday 8am - 4pm, Tuesday 8am - 3.30pm, Wednesday 8.30am - 1230pm

The successful candidate will have proven experience in an Early Years setting and relevant experience of working with parents and carers.

You must have an HNC Childcare & Education or equivalent. In addition to this you must have or be working towards Level 9 SCQF or BA in Childhood Practice.

Please refer to the attached document for further information regarding the role and the essential qualifications and requirements.

Please note that this is a 52 week 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.

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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