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Ref no: EDN29702
Published: 28/12/2024
Closes: 11/01/2025
Location: Wardie Primary School Granton Road Edinburgh, EH5 3NJ
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 per year
Contract Type: Temporary
Position Type: Part Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
School Support Assistant - Fixed term until 26/06/2026
Wardie Primary School
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 (pro rata for sessional)
Hours: 35 per week, 39 weeks sessional (Monday to Friday)
We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic person to join our team, to contribute to the continuing development & delivery of high-quality education at the school.
The role will specifically support a disabled teacher with limited mobility in day-to-day teaching. Duties will include general classroom support, photocopying and helping to set up equipment for classes. Candidates must also be able to evidence their experience of working with Primary-aged pupils with identified Additional Support for Learning needs.
The working hours are likely to be Mondays to Thursdays 07:30 to 15:45/07:45 to 16:00 (less unpaid breaks) and Fridays 07:30 to 12:45/07:45 to 13:00.
Key Responsibilities
* Help with resourcing lessons such as completing photocopying, obtaining materials from elsewhere in the school for the Teacher.
* Respond to pupil needs, supporting dysregulated pupils to return to class from Support for Learning base.
* Supervise a pupil group for small amounts of time.
* Support the teacher accessing areas within the school.
* Help set up the Support for Learning base for specific interventions.
* Carry books and manipulatives to the Support for Learning base.
* Support Teacher with organising their planning (filing for example).
* Ensure teacher’s diary is correct, and Teacher is attending the correct meeting.
* Note-take during meetings, and summarise key decisions back to Teacher.
* Support to ensure the teacher has copied all relevant data from meetings into teacher’s diary correctly.
* Support teacher to complete agenda items if they require resourcing or organising.
* Assist teacher with marking.
* Carry any resources/marking to/from support for learning base to teacher’s transport.
* Show flexibility in supporting the teacher throughout the day, responding to their needs, as required.
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.
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.
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.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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