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Description
Waverley Court
Salary: £39,129 - £46,02
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
This post will support under 5s who are experiencing homelessness, currently there are approximately 7,000 individuals in temporary housing in Edinburgh, many of these families have children under 5. This post will support homeless children into ELC and signpost to services and resources for example Best Start Grants. The post will also support strategic aspects of work including P1 transition project.
We are now recruiting an Early Years Strategic Development Officer to join our team. The successful candidate will be able to take forward policies and developments to ensure that the Council fulfils its duties as outlined in the Children and Young People's Act (2014), the national Early Years Framework, Edinburgh's Early Years Strategy and Action Plan, and Edinburgh's Parent and Carers Strategy and Action Plan.
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.
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.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" ; target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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