Pupil Support Officer - ASL Service - EDN27817
| Posting date: | 04 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,788.00 to £30,751.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH16 4DS |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EDN27817 |
Summary
Job Description
Children, Education & Justice Services
Pupil Support Officer - Fixed Term to 22/12/2024
Additional Support for Learning Service - East Edinburgh
Salary: £26,788- £30,751 (Pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 26 per week, 39 weeks sessional
Are you kind, caring and passionate about helping children and young people disengaged from learning or experiencing difficulty in their lives? Do children and young people respond well to your support? ASL is looking for a Pupil Support Officer (PSO) with such attributes. The role involves working as part of a wider team to assess, develop and implement the delivery of effective supports, including modelling and coaching of developmentally appropriate strategies and the delivery of training, to build staff capacity in mainstream schools across the city. The successful candidate will also lead on groups for children and young people within schools and out in the community.
The successful candidates will have substantial experience working with children and young people presenting with additional support needs arising from social, emotional and behavioural needs and/or autism. They need to be creative, well organised, effective communicators who are passionate about supporting children and young people with additional support needs. They need to have experience of working as part of a team.
Whilst this role is being advertised for the East of the city, the Additional Support for Learning service is a peripatetic service and applicants must be willing to work anywhere in the city. The successful candidate could be asked to work in any school in the city, including our specialist provision and with a range of needs including support for children with personal care and children and young people who require support with self or mutual regulation which sometimes can result in physical harm.
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.
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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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