Early Years Officer - Davidson\'s Mains Primary School - 13298_1769520671

We are recruiting an experienced Early Years Officer to join our team at Davidson's Mains Primary School Nursery on a full-time basis, Monday-Friday. Within our early years provision, children may attend between 8.00 am and 6.00 pm, 52 weeks of the year. To accommodate this, the successful candidate will be required to work on a weekly rotational shift pattern between 7.50 am and 6.00 pm.

We are looking for an experienced Early Years Officer who will be skilled in monitoring and evaluating the quality and impact of learning environments, planning, and interactions with children. They will take a proactive role in leading the planning within the playroom, ensuring high-quality learning experiences that meet the individual needs of all children. The successful candidate will support and develop their team to achieve the best possible outcomes for children in their care.

They will have a strong understanding of children and staff as individuals and learners, and will model excellent communication skills and effective deployment of team members to meet children's needs. We are seeking an Early Years Officer committed to delivering high-quality learning and play experiences indoors and outdoors.

Please note - You must ensure that you have the required qualification(s) before you apply, so please refer to the attached documentation for requirements, or we will be unable to consider your application. 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 are 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 salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working.