Early Years Practitioner

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Applications must be received by 3rd of December 2025, 11:55pm.

Permanent Post. 14.8 hours per week, term time. Work Pattern: Thursday and Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm. Salary: £17.72 – £18.21 per hour.

Responsibilities

• Please describe your previous experience of actively contributing to the planning and co‑ordination of programmes of learning in an Early Years Establishment.
• What skills, abilities and experience do you have that would enable you to effectively communicate with children, parents/carers, team members and outside agencies?
• Please describe a time you worked as part of a team. What role did you have and what would you do differently in the future?
• Please describe how you would support a child with distressed behaviours. What strategies would you use?

Qualifications and Experience

You will have experience of working within an early years environment and be committed to ongoing professional development. You must possess at least one of the following qualifications: NNEB, HNC, SVQ 3 Children\’s Care Learning & Development, SVQ 3 Early Years Care & Education, BA Early Learning and Childcare (Graduate Apprentice). You must also meet the registration requirements of a Practitioner with SSSC.

Application Process

Please ensure you tell us about the following. We do not accept CVs; any submitted will be disregarded. If you require to submit additional information to support your application, please upload this under supporting documents.

All correspondence will be via your email address. Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks.

Legal and EEO Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003. This post is considered Regulated Roles with Children and/or adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007. It is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children and/or adults.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment.

An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of three months in the past 10 years. Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Records Check. The check must be translated into English and include an official statement confirming that the applicant does not have any history of or pending criminal record proceedings.

Under the Council\’s positive action programme, applications to this post are particularly encouraged from Male applicants.

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community. The Council uses the disability confident scheme and guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum competency/behaviour requirements for the position. The Council commits to supporting members of the armed forces, veterans and their families as set out in the Armed Forces Community Covenant. Veterans are guaranteed an interview if they meet the minimum requirements.

Benefits

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies – flexible working, leave, maternity/paternity leave and enhanced leave
• Employee Discounts including cinema discounts
• Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program