Senior Early Years Officer - Braidburn Special School

Job Description

Education, Children and Justice Services

Senior Early Years Officer
Braidburn School

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 18 per week, 39 weeks session

Wednesday: 10.30am-4.15pm, Thursday 07.45am-4.15pm, Friday 07.45am-12.45pm 

Situated in the south-west of Edinburgh, Braidburn School provides a supportive learning environment for learners with additional support needs aged 2½ to 18 years old.

Braidburn benefits from on-site multi-disciplinary therapy and medical teams in addition to our education staff. This helps our learners achieve their full potential.

Braidburn Nursery is situated within Braidburn School, and supports children with complex, long term additional support needs. The needs of our children are primarily associated with learning disability and significant visual/sensory, health and medical needs. Braidburn Nursery provides education for pre-schoolchildren, aged 3 - 5 years within a caring, safe and welcoming environment.

We are recruiting a Senior Early Years Officer to join our Nursery team to assist with the management, co-ordination and development of our high quality, child centred service.

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.

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

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