Early Years Practitioner - Granton Early Years Centre

Granton Early Years is a large, busy setting, with capacity for 64 children at any one time, attending various patterns of attendance between 8am and 6pm, 52 weeks per year. We work in partnership with our families to promote children’s learning and development; helping to close the attainment gap and ensure equity for all. As we continue to develop our service, our setting is a very natural environment with outdoor spaces that back onto the local Community Garden, with the Community Centre situated next door. We encourage our team to strive for high standards with support and development opportunities available at all levels.

We are recruiting an experienced Early Years Practitioner to join our team on a fixed term basis until September 2025. The successful candidate will be passionate about supporting children to be, confident, capable individuals and helping them to achieve their full potential. Our practitioners will be highly skilled at enhancing children's learning and development, understand their role in supporting children to lead their own learning and will be enthusiastic about creating meaningful experiences and spaces. They will be an effective team member who contributes to the ethos and values of our setting through good communication and professional discussion, using their training and knowledge to demonstrate their enthusiasm for Early Years.

This is a sessional position and you will be required to work shift patterns within the setting, between the hours of 07.45hrs and 18.00hrs, Monday - Thursday, with the possibility of some late shifts on rotation, within each 28 hour week.

Early Years Practitioner - fixed term to 30/09/2025

Granton Early Years Centre

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 (pro rata for part time and sessional)

Hours: 28 per week (Monday - Thursday), 39 weeks sessional