Early Years Practitioner (Supply) - ANG05804

Angus Council; Coupar Angus; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A local authority department in Scotland seeks enthusiastic early years practitioners to work flexibly across various childcare settings. The role requires delivering high-quality education and care responsive to the needs of young children and their families. Successful candidates must meet SSSC requirements and be able to work at short notice. Further details can be found in the job specifications.

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.
• Availability to cover in settings at short notice is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a flexible, high-quality, stimulating education and care-centred service.
• Support the needs of young children and their families.

Skills

Enthusiasm for early years education

Flexibility

Ability to work at short notice

Education

Membership of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or commitment to gain registration

Job description

Overview

Based at various locations throughout Angus Council.

The hourly rate includes payment for holidays. This is paid as a percentage of your hourly rate for the job and will be separately itemised on your pay slip. Successful applicants will be placed on our casual worker register and engaged to work as and when required depending on service need.

This job is workstyle 1 – Fixed.

In this workstyle most of your time is spent undertaking the direct delivery of front-line services work. Depending on your role there may be a limited requirement to access a specific council location during the course of the working week if you are not delivering your service at a council location.

Angus Council currently operates the following models in their early learning and childcare settings:

• ELC Model 1 – children’s funded entitlement is 190 set days at 6 hours per day
• ELC Model 2 – children’s funded entitlement is 152 set days at 7½ hours per day
• ELC Model 3 – children’s funded entitlement is 228 set days at 5 hours per day

ELC settings in models 1 and 2 are open over term-time. ELC Model 3 is different as these settings are open for more hours every day and offer ELC over 46.6 weeks of the year.

We are seeking enthusiastic early years practitioners to work in all of our local authority early learning and childcare settings throughout Angus on an as required basis. As a supply worker, availability to cover in these settings is important as this will be required at short notice.

Working within early level, you will deliver a flexible, high quality, stimulating education and care-centred service which meets the needs of young children and their families.

Membership of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or commitment to gain registration with the SSSC in accordance with their requirements is essential.

Please note interviews will be held Wednesday, 15 October 2025.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job: Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.