Early Years Practitioner - Fox Covert Early Years Centre

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Early Years Practitioner - fixed term until 27/06/2025
Fox Covert Early Years Centre

Salary: £26,788 - £30,751
Hours: 36 per week (52 weeks)

Fox Covert Early Years is a large, busy setting, with capacity for 85 children at any one time, attending various patterns of attendance between 8am and 6pm, 52 weeks per year. We work alongside our excellent term time Forest Kindergarten team, offering a blended placement for families who choose this pattern.

The successful post holder will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.15hrs, Monday-Friday, with an average of one late shift per 36-hour week.

The Nursery is staffed with a friendly, supportive, energetic and passionate team, following a Froebelian approach. Our environments and natural, warm and welcoming, with nurturing and rich spaces, both indoors and out.

We have developed a positive Growth Mindset ethos, where everyone is encouraged to be the best we can.

The service is now seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Early Years Practitioner on a fixed term basis until 27 June 2025.

Please note - You must ensure that you have the required qualification(s) before you apply, so please refer the attached documentation for requirements, or we will be unable to consider your application.

For further information or to discuss the post/s, please contact Fox Covert Early Years on 0131 339 8625.

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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