Early Years Practitioner - Granton Early Years Centre

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Practitioner - fixed term to 30/09/2025
Granton Early Years Centre

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 28 per week (Monday - Thursday), 39 weeks sessional

Granton Early Years is a large, busy setting, with capacity for 64 children at any one time, attending various patterns of attendance between 8am and 6pm, 52 weeks per year. 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. As we continue to develop our service, our setting is a very natural environment with outdoor spaces that back onto the local Community Garden, with the Community Centre situated next door. We encourage our team to strive for high standards with support and development opportunities available at all levels.

We are recruiting an experienced Early Years Practitioner to join our team on a fixed term basis until September 2025. The successful candidate will be passionate about supporting children to be, confident, capable individuals and helping them to achieve their full potential. Our practitioners will be highly skilled at enhancing children's learning and development, understand their role in supporting children to lead their own learning and will be enthusiastic about creating meaningful experiences and spaces. They will be an effective team member who contributes to the ethos and values of our setting through good communication and professional discussion, using their training and knowledge to demonstrate their enthusiasm for Early Years.

This is a sessional position and you will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.00hrs, Monday - Thursday, with the possibility of some late shifts on rotation, within each 28 hour week.

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

For further information or to discuss the post, please contact Granton Early Years on 0131 552 4808.

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.

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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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