Early Years Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom St George's, Edinburgh Full time

St George's, Edinburgh

Edinburgh, City of
- New
- Salary:

- From £20,218.18 to £25,303.58 (annual salary). Value would be pro-rata to reflect January-August 2024
- Job type:

- Full Time, Fixed Term
- 3 December 2023

**Job overview**:
**The Role**:
**Competitive remuneration and benefits package including:

- **
- Reduced school fees and wraparound care at St George’s School
- Pension Contribution
- Staff lunches
- Access to school buses on school bus routes for all staff (small charge payable)
- Professional learning and development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Opportunity to benefit from the use of the many school facilities; libraries; sports facilities etc
- Death in service benefits all staff
- Opportunity to join our community and contribute to social, music, drama and other events and activities.

**The Role**:
**Early Years Practitioner**
- Fixed Term January-August 2024
- 8am-6pm, Monday to Thursday with an hour unpaid lunch break (40 hours per week)
- Term-time plus in-service days and pro-rata of 112.5 hours per year of Holiday Club

**Job Purpose**:
To promote a stimulating environment which balances education and care for children, meeting their individual needs and those of their families, enabling each child to achieve their potential.

**Accountable to**:
The Early Years Practitioner is responsible on a daily basis to the Head of Junior School and Nursery and ultimately to the Head.

**Accountabilities**:

- To be responsible to the Head of Junior School and Nursery in contributing the delivery of the designated curriculum and to provide a service compatible with good practice in the education and care of children within the policies and systems laid down by the School, HMiE and the Care Inspectorate.
- To be responsible to the Head of Junior School and Nursery in contributing to the pastoral care of Nursery children and for monitoring and recording their overall developmental progress.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**

**To the children**:

- To create a supportive and caring ethos in all aspects of the Nursery environment in which individual children are encouraged and supported to develop self-esteem, self-confidence and respect for others.
- To provide an appropriately challenging and stimulating educational environment with the child at the centre, where individual children are encouraged to reach their full potential.
- To be actively involved in a programme of development with the children in relation to their self-help skills, toilet training, toileting, dressing skills, personal care and eating skills and, where children have not yet developed these skills, to provide care and support for them.
- To encourage children’s language and communication development and be aware of ways to stimulate language and communication through play, books, stories, alternative communication systems and by personal interaction.
- Where appropriate, to act as a key person for a group of children by taking the lead responsibility for them, ensuring they are comfortable and secure in their surroundings and are afforded every opportunity to acquire and develop skills appropriate to their age and ability.
- To support the development of individual skills, utilising interests and expertise in music, drama, movement, arts and crafts, literature and environmental studies, or other skills and interests, as appropriate, and to use these to assist in the delivery of the curriculum.
- To encourage children’s development in other curricular areas where relevant and work in a support capacity with specialist teachers from other areas of the school.
- To encourage children to participate in the preparation of snacks and simple meals and, when involved in supervising mealtimes, to be aware of the emotional, personal and social developmental opportunities this process presents.
- To support children in using ICT as part of their learning. To use ICT where relevant in preparing resources, providing formal and informal reporting on children’s progress using our electronic and online systems, supporting children’s skill development and other work-related activity.

**To the Junior School and Nursery Department**:

- To take part in departmental meetings and in-service days as required by the Head through Head of Nursery.
- To attend open mornings/afternoons/play mornings as required by the Head through the Head of Junior School and Nursery in order to provide support to colleagues, families and children with regards to transitions and the positive promotion of the Nursery in general.
- In addition to term times, to work an agreed approximate 3 week period in Holiday Club (Oct/Feb half-terms, Easter and Summer) on a rotational basis as the School views it an extension of providing wrap-around Nursery and Junior School care for children and families. To be available during these periods as required and to contri

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