Early Years Worker in Edinburgh

Working at CrossReach is more than a job; it's a chance to join a committed, creative, and compassionate team delivering life-changing therapeutic services to infants, children, young people, and adults across Scotland. We seek a warm and friendly team player for a Creche Worker role in our child-focused Perinatal Creches in Edinburgh. Our Parent and Infant Relationship Supports (PAIRS) Creches help families overcome barriers to accessing perinatal counselling sessions, providing additional support to build parenting confidence, reduce separation anxiety, and encourage parent-infant bonding.

You will create a welcoming, safe, secure, and stimulating space for the children in your care, tailoring your approach to each child's needs. You will uphold the highest professional standards, ensuring quality and centering the infant's voice in all you do. Excellent communication skills are essential as you will engage sensitively and supportively with parents to bolster their emotional well-being. Joining a collaborative team, you will work together to maximize the creche's potential and ensure the children are well cared for.

Ideally, you will have a minimum of an HNC/SCQF 7 in Childcare or a willingness to work towards a relevant qualification. Experience with babies and young children is beneficial, but a passion for delivering exceptional care to our special visitors is most important. Could you make a difference in the lives of the children and families we support? If so, we want to hear from you.

We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that supports others:

• Access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card.
• A generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit.
• Enhanced family friendly policies.
• Access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments.
• Access to a care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges.
• Support for your training and development, including a contribution to your professional membership fees.

CrossReach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances. As we do our work in Christ’s name you must be respectful of our Christian Ethos and be able to work within it.

This post requires you to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and undertake the necessary vetting checks. You will also be required to be registered with SSSC and it is your professional responsibility to ensure that you meet the standards and criteria for registration. We have a legal obligation to ensure that we do not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are committed to ensuring that we attract, retain, and develop the very best people to build a diverse and talented team and we recognise that every individual’s unique background, experience and ability contributes to our success. We aim to create an inclusive and inspiring environment where individuals feel valued and respected and where people can belong, thrive and be their very best, whoever they are.

If you have any queries regarding this role or our recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment team. Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

Application Process: Please apply for this post by completing the application process on Jobtrain. You can find out more about our recruitment process.

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