Pupil Support Assistant - Canal View Primary School

Edinburgh International; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Canal View Primary School in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, is seeking a Pupil Support Assistant to join the school team. The post is 26.5 hours per week over 39 weeks per year, Monday to Thursday 8:45–15:15 and Friday 8:45–12:30, pro rata for part-time.

You will support pupils with educational, care and welfare needs to access the curriculum, work collaboratively with staff, and contribute to a positive inclusive ethos.

Responsibilities

• Assist in meeting the educational, care and welfare needs of all pupils to ensure those with additional support needs can access the curriculum.

Job description

Pupil Support Assistant
Canal View Primary School

Salary: £26,806 - £27,032 (pro rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 26.5 per week, 39 weeks sessional

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual who can work collaboratively as a member of the school team assisting in meeting the educational, care and welfare needs of all pupils ensuring those with additional support needs can effectively access the curriculum.

The hours are 26.5 hours per week, Mondays to Thursdays 8.45am to 3.15pm and Fridays 8.45am to 12.30pm.

Canal View Primary School serves the community of Wester Hailes. The school has a broad social mix and the catchment contains areas of multiple deprivation with 77% of our learners living in SIMD 1 and 2. The school receives both Positive Action funding and Pupil Equity funding. Canal View Primary School is organised into fourteen classes from P1-7 and has a Nursery offering 64 full-time places.

The school is led by a management team of a Head Teacher, a Depute Head Teacher, a Principal Teacher and a Business Manager. There are eighteen class teachers and three part-time Support for Learning Teachers ably supported by a School Administrator, Pupil Support Assistants, two Pupil Support Officers and a Facilities Technician. The Nursery has a Senior Early Years Officer, an Early Years Officer, a team of Early Years Practitioners, Early Years Assistants and an Early Years Domestic SupportAssistant.

For more information about the school, please visit our website: https://canalviewprimary.wordpress.com/ or call 0131 442 3894.

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 bringOur BehavioursofRespect, IntegrityandFlexibilityinto 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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