Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 3 August 2026
Closing Date: Sunday 12 July 2026
Salary: FC7 £34,914.86 to £43,437.09 pro rata
Working Pattern: 14.4 hours per week
Purpose and Values of Education Directorate
The Education Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.
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:
You will be promoting children’s learning, development and welfare, including their personal, social and emotional wellbeing. You will work in a variety of settings, supporting staff to provide quality experiences and outcomes for children and families in line with current guidance, policies and curriculum.
You will interact effectively and enthusiastically to motivate children by engaging them in learning activities and supporting their participation based on their appropriate needs. You will contribute to the organisation and implementation of a wide range of learning activities, including out of establishment visits, and the achievement of appropriate learning outcomes. You will support staff to do these tasks through modelling excellent practice.
You will observe and assess children and their progress, recording any observations and contributing to their personal learning plans or profiles where appropriate. You will support staff to do this, providing training when appropriate.
You will contribute to, and may lead, team meetings, training sessions, feedback sessions, action plans and gathering evidence of improvement from a variety of sources. You will establish positive working relationships with a wide variety of staff teams and Senior Leadership teams. You will work collaboratively with SLT in each setting to identify and support development work linking to their Improvement Priorities.
Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements
You are required to hold one of the following practitioner level qualifications (or equivalent):
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