Early Years Assistant - Balgreen Nursery School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Assistant - fixed term until 30/08/2025
Balgreen Nursery School

Salary: £23,651 - £23,857 per year (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 25 per week 

At Balgreen Nursery School we welcome, respect and nurture all children and their families. Our staff team aim to create a stimulating, challenging and enjoyable environment that is responsive to each individual child. We work alongside families to promote wellbeing, independence and resilience. Through this we aspire to give the children who attend, the best start in life.

The nursery strives to be a warm welcoming environment. Balgreen Nursery School is fortunate to have a well established garden with many opportunities for children to learn in nature.

We are now looking for an enthusiastic Early Years Assistant to join our team on a fixed term contract until August 2024 to support 2 children with additional support needs. Your working pattern will be 25 hours per week, Mon - Fri 9am - 2pm.

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.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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