Primary Teacher - Gilmerton Primary School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Primary Teacher, full time - Fixed Term until 28th June 2024
Gilmerton Primary School

Salary: £32,217 - £48,516
Hours: 35 per week

Gilmerton Primary School is looking for an experienced and creative teacher to join our teaching team. The successful candidate will have a clear focus on providing the highest quality learning and teaching experiences within a nurturing environment.

Gilmerton Primary School is a non-denominational primary school which serves the community of south east Edinburgh and which opened on its present site in 1968. Gilmerton Primary School is organised into nineteen classes from P1 -7 and the current school role is 485. The school is led by a management team of a Head Teacher, two Depute Head Teachers and a Business Manager.

Within our caring community Gilmerton Primary School aims to promote a love of learning that will evolve and continue for life. The school mission statement ‘Learning for Life’ embodies this aim. Our school values encourage us to be respectful, resilient and responsible. The school is firmly committed to raising attainment and promoting achievement.

Please visit our website for more information about our school https://gilmertonprimary.com/ or to discuss the post please contact Admin@gilmerton.edin.sch.uk and mark for the attention of Rebecca Annand, Head Teacher.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

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.

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 make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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.

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