Pupil Support Officer - Drummond Community High School - EDN27766
| Posting date: | 28 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £26,778.00 to £30,751.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH7 4BS |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EDN27766 |
Summary
Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Pupil Support Officer - Wellbeing Hub
Drummond Community High School
Salary: £26,778 - £30,751 per year(pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 30 per week, 39 weeks sessional
At Drummond we are very proud of our commitment to Nurturing Big Ambitions. We are currently seeking to recruit a kind, caring and passionate Pupil Support Officer to join our Wellbeing Hub.
The Wellbeing Hub is a school resource intended to provide bespoke programmes of support for an identified cohort of S1-3 pupils who experience a range social and emotional needs. The key function of our Wellbeing Hub is to ensure that learners receive targeted support to enable them to engage in learning, support for their health and wellbeing and support for them to re-join their peers and remain in mainstream education, with effective transition to a senior phase curriculum. The Wellbeing Hub team consists of a Curriculum Leader, Pupil Support Officer and a newly appointed Pupil Support Assistant. The Wellbeing Hub Team is part of our wider Integrated Pupil Support Team at Drummond led by our DHT Pupil Support.
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.
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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