Pupil Support Assistant - Gracemount High School - 10255_1748616866
| Posting date: | 30 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,909.00 to £25,116.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH16 6TZ |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10255_1748616866 |
Summary
Pupil Support Assistant
Gracemount High School
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: up to 27.5 per week, 39 weeks sessional
- Position 1 - 27.5 hours, permanent
- Position 2 - 27.5 hours, permanent
- Position 3 - 27.5 hours, permanent
- Position 4 - 20 hours, permanent
- Position 5 - 25 hours, fixed term until 26/06/2026
Gracemount High School was built under PPP and opened in 2003. The school's leadership team comprise the Head Teacher, three Depute Head Teachers, a Senior Development Officer and a Business Manager. We have a complement of 50 teaching staff and 20 support staff.
We are a successful and thriving school community that serves a socially diverse community. Over 70% of our students live in quintile 1 and 2 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. We are proud of every one of our students and our staff are skilled, conscientious, and caring.
More information about our school is available on our website: https://www.gracemounthighschool.co.uk
We are looking for conscientious, committed candidates with excellent inter-personal and communication skills. You will be working as part of a team and there will be many training opportunities to support you in working with our children and young people. Previous experience of working in a school would be desirable. Pupil Support Assistants work across the Integrated Support Provision, supporting pupils at all levels of ability at all stages.
* Note - Please read the sessional working information attached to this advert. This explains how salaries are calculated for sessional (term time) and part time posts. PSAs do not work during the 12 weeks of school holidays, however total salary is paid in 12 equal monthly payments, over the year.
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.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
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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View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/36701/pupil-support-assista…; target="_blank">Pupil Support Assistant job description
View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/36933/pupil-support-assista…; target="_blank">Pupil Support Assistant person specification
View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/36683/sessional-working-inf…; target="_blank">sessional working information
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