Location: Forrester High 212 Broomhouse Road Edinburgh, EH12 9AE
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 per year
Contract Type: Temporary
Position Type: Part Time
Hours: 27.5 hours per week
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Pupil Support Assistant - Fixed term until 26/6/2025
Forrester High School
The role of the Pupil Support Assistant will be to help with the educational, care and welfare needs of all pupils ensuring those with additional needs, who are able to attend a mainstream school, can effectively access the curriculum.
You will be joining a high achieving and successful department and other teams of staff who are dedicated to providing the best for all our young people. This is a demanding role and you should be committed to raising the attainment and achievement of all our pupils.
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.
To help achieve our goal of improving our organisational culture and creating a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to ensure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
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.
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