Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services Position:
Early Years Practitioner Location:
Pennywell Early Learning and Childcare Salary:
£28,046 - £32,010 (pro rata for sessional) Hours:
36 per week, 52 weeks & 39 weeks sessional Pennywell Early Learning and Childcare opened in August 2024. This exciting new centre provides high-quality learning experiences for children and families as part of the MacMillan Hub. MacMillan Hub is a community-focused, collaborative location that offers a range of services for the local community through partnership working with North Edinburgh Arts and the relocated Muirhouse library. We are now recruiting experienced Early Years Practitioners to join our team on a permanent basis. The successful candidates will be passionate about supporting children to be confident, capable individuals and helping them 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 with children in our beautiful new setting. They will be effective team members who contribute 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. We have both 52-week and 39-week (sessional) positions available. Please state on your application which position(s) you are applying for. Shift Patterns:
The successful candidates will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.00hrs, Monday - Friday, with some late shifts on rotation, within each month. Qualifications:
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 outside 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 ensure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work. Requirements
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. Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs
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Children, Education and Justice Services Position:
Early Years Practitioner Location:
Pennywell Early Learning and Childcare Salary:
£28,046 - £32,010 (pro rata for sessional) Hours:
36 per week, 52 weeks & 39 weeks sessional Pennywell Early Learning and Childcare opened in August 2024. This exciting new centre provides high-quality learning experiences for children and families as part of the MacMillan Hub. MacMillan Hub is a community-focused, collaborative location that offers a range of services for the local community through partnership working with North Edinburgh Arts and the relocated Muirhouse library. We are now recruiting experienced Early Years Practitioners to join our team on a permanent basis. The successful candidates will be passionate about supporting children to be confident, capable individuals and helping them 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 with children in our beautiful new setting. They will be effective team members who contribute 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. We have both 52-week and 39-week (sessional) positions available. Please state on your application which position(s) you are applying for. Shift Patterns:
The successful candidates will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.00hrs, Monday - Friday, with some late shifts on rotation, within each month. Qualifications:
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 outside 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 ensure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work. Requirements
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. Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs
#J-18808-Ljbffr
