Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools are recruiting for a Nursery Teacher Assistant and Early Birds Assistant on a temporary basis from January 2025 until June 2025. The role is full-time with a salary of £19,777. The role is based at ESMS Junior School on the Ravelston Site.
The role supports Nursery Class Teachers and supervises children, including duties such as:
* Supporting children in the classroom and playground
* Working closely with Nursery Class Teachers to facilitate the provision
The successful candidate must have experience working with children. Experience working to support a teacher in a classroom and an interest in child development is desirable.
The school offers a range of benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, enhanced sick pay, and family-friendly policies.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and Disclosure Scotland.
The school values kindness, confidence, resilience, integrity, and curiosity, and is looking for individuals who can embody and promote these values.
The school offers a co-educational nursery and junior school, single-sex but closely twinned secondary education, and a co-educational sixth form.
The school's vision is to empower learners through innovative approaches and transformative experiences, cultivating creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
The school's mission is to develop resilient, accomplished, and values-driven students equipped with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to lead full, happy lives and shape a better world.
The school's aims include offering an outstanding, well-rounded education, building strong relationships, providing a range of activities outside the classroom, inspiring children to aim high, and giving children every opportunity to seize and embrace challenges.
The school's teachers inspire innovative thinkers with a love of learning that will last a lifetime, and the school's children develop the confidence to use their voices.
The school's five values embed character, inspiring children to develop good hearts, make good decisions, and improve the world around them.