Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 13 May 2024
Closing Date: Sunday 5 May 2024
Contract Type: start date for this post is August 2024. Temporary until May 2025
Salary: FC8 £38,950.71 - £42, 686.23
Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week
Location: St Brides Primary School, and Starfish (Maxwell Centre), Cowdenbeath
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
- Working Together – Please give examples of when you have worked with others to contribute to teamwork and how you influenced those you were working with.
- Delivering Results – Please give examples that demonstrate your ability to organise and solve problems to achieve results.
- Personal Ownership – Please give examples of situations in which you have used your initiative to make improvements and used your skills to deal with challenges and change.
- Customer Focus – Please give examples of when your skills and knowledge have helped improve the learning and development of children.
Job Description
We are looking for a highly skilled early years practitioner who is passionate about improving life chances for all through a professional commitment to making a difference for our children and young people so they can achieve their full potential.
As an Early Years Lead Officer, your role would be:
To provide more children who face the greatest disadvantages with increased access to highly quality support.
To provide additional support for those children who need it most in order to close the attainment gap.
To help narrow the gap in cognitive development that opens up before children start primary school.
To develop high quality relationships and interactions with children that promote wellbeing, and extend thinking and concept development.
To contribute towards the wider programme of work in the ELC setting to reduce inequality.
To manage ELC services open full year across a locality during school holiday periods and implementing Child Protection procedures in line with Fife Council Guidelines.
Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements
You are required to hold the following practitioner level qualifications (or equivalent):
- Hold or be working towards the BA Childhood Practice, PDA, Certificate/Diploma in Early Childhood Studies or other relevant advanced qualification.
- HNC Childhood Practice OR SVQ Level 3 Social Services, Children and Young People.
You are also required to registered with SSSC at practitioner level within 6 months of taking up employment in this role and must complete the required post registration training and learning (PRTL) over the registration period.
You should have a working knowledge of the Curriculum for Excellence, Realising the Ambition and Child Development from birth to 5 years.
You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of a team to ensure positive outcomes for all children and young people in the settings you support.
Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Further Information
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We are holding a Fife Council jobs fair on 15th May 10am - 2pm at Rothes Halls, Glenrothes. We will be on hand to talk about the vacancies we have on offer and what it's like to work with the council. There will also be a chance to get support from our job clubs and employability teams and can offer help with the online application process. Please pop along on the day to find out more.
For Further Information Contact: Erin Aitchison - erin.aitchison@fife.gov.uk
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