Location: Firrhill High School 9 Oxgangs Road North Edinburgh, EH14 1DP
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Part Time
Hours: 27.5 hours per week
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Pupil Support Assistant - Enhanced Support Provision
Firrhill High School
Salary - £24,909 - £25,116 (pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours - 27.5 per week, 39 weeks sessional
Firrhill High School serves the area of South West Edinburgh. In partnership with our five associated primary schools Bonaly, Colinton, Longstone, Oxgangs and Pentland, we strive to “Provide learning opportunities of the highest quality.” Our school values are founded on respect for self and others, tolerance and support.
We are one of the largest schools in Edinburgh with a roll of 1300 pupils and 130 staff. This provides us with the opportunity to provide a wide range of curricular, interdisciplinary and extracurricular activities that meet the needs of all of our pupils. We also provide opportunities for personal achievement and support pupils to develop skills for learning, work and life.
We are looking to recruit a Pupil Support Assistant to join our dedicated staff who will be ambitious for all our pupils and are committed to supporting our young people to develop to their fullest potential.
This post will work closely with teachers in the delivery of our Enhanced Support Provision. This will involve close working with young people with a range of more significant additional support needs to enable them to access the full range of opportunities on offer at Firrhill. This will involve supporting pupils in the dedicated classroom space as well as in other classrooms or in outdoor locations as required for the learning being undertaken.
You will work alongside colleagues in our Wellbeing Team and Support for Learning and will liaise regularly with partner agencies and parents/carers. You will be positive, a good team player and will be committed to working with young people, especially those with additional support needs.
All successful candidates will be given training to help them carry out their role.
All staff benefit from a well-structured and responsive Professional Learning programme where staff are encouraged to both develop their own practice and to actively share their expertise with colleagues. Firrhill is a Gold Rights Respecting School and we place children’s rights at the centre of our practice. This contributes significantly to our school ethos of inclusion, diversity, tolerance and friendship where excellence for all and excellence by all is our constant ambition.
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.
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.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
Requirements
To help achieve this, 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.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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