Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Pupil Support Assistant - Integrated Support Faculty/Enhanced Support Provision
Gracemount High School
Salary: £23,651 - £23,857 (pro rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 20 per week, 39 weeks sessional
Gracemount High School is a non-denominational secondary school with a roll of 608 pupils which serves the community of South East Edinburgh. The school was founded in 1959 as a junior secondary school and since the late 1960s has been a fully comprehensive six-year high school.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Pupil Support Assistant to join our team. The Pupil Support Assistant will work mainly within the Gracemount High School Integrated Support Faculty/Enhanced Support Provision, supporting pupils at all levels of ability at all stages.
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. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
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 brings to us as an organisation.
To help achieve our goal to improve our organisational culture, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
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