Pupil Support Assistant (Enhanced Support Base) - EDN27026
| Posting date: | 05 March 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £23,651.00 to £23,857.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH12 9AE |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EDN27026 |
Summary
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Pupil Support Assistant (Enhanced Support Base)
Forrester High School
Salary: £23,651 - £23,857 (pro rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 27.50 per week, 39 weeks sessional
We are recruiting a Pupil Support Assistant (PSA) to join our Enhanced Support Base (ESB).
The ESB provides a safe and welcoming environment where positive relationships and trauma-informed approaches can help young people achieve their potential. There will be a focus on developing social, emotional and communication skills as well as academic learning.
The PSA will work alongside a Curriculum Leader and Pupil Support Officer.
This is an exciting opportunity to support pupil’s who have specific and complex needs. The role will involve building trusting relationships with children and their families.
The successful candidate will be capable of inspiring students and have a firm belief in the potential of all.
Forrester High School strives to ensure that all young people have access to tailored learning pathways that meet their needs. We will work closely to ensure our learners know how to progress their learning. This will enable them to gain the skills, experiences and qualifications they need to achieve a successful, positive and sustained destination on leaving school.
Forrester High School is a state of the art PPP school opened in January 2010. All classrooms are fully equipped to a very high standard.
Since 2012, the school has rolled out iPads to the senior phase to help improve their learning in the classroom and at home. As a 1:1 computing school, all teachers have the latest Apple technology which includes teacher iPads and Apple TV’s in every classroom.
Sports facilities are exceptional and include Games Halls, Gym, Swimming Pool, Fitness Suite, 3G and 2G artificial pitches as well as conventional grass pitches for both rugby and football.
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.
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.
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