Pupil Support Officer - Pentland Primary School - 11804_1759239268

CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A local education authority in Edinburgh is seeking a Pupil Support Officer to provide support for children and families. This role involves building relationships, tracking attendance, and promoting inclusive practices. Applicants should be experienced with children, enthusiastic, and passionate about education. The position is fixed term until June 2026, with a competitive salary range.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children & families.
• Enthusiastic, creative, and organized.
• Passionate about supporting children's best outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build trusting relationships with children & families.
• Support inclusion & attainment for children.
• Provide advice and resources to families.
• Track attendance & attainment.
• Promote extra-curricular activities.

Skills

Experience working with children & families

Caring

Enthusiastic

Creative

Well organized

Passionate about supporting children/young people

Job description

Overview

Pupil Support Officer - fixed term until 26/06/2026

Pentland Primary School

Salary: £29,173 - £33,287 (pro-rata for part-time & sessional)

Hours: 28 per week, 39 weeks sessional

At Pentland Primary, we are a large primary school in South West Edinburgh benefiting from a diverse catchment of 560 children (17 classes plus Nursery including one team-teach class).

Our School Values, 'we are ambitious, we are safe, we are kind' underpin our daily interactions & goals. Pentland has a wonderful positive & nurturing ethos sustained by a fantastic team of teaching & support staff.

An exciting opportunity to join our team has come up; we are looking to further enhance the support we offer to children & families through the recruitment of a Pupil Support Officer.

Responsibilities

• building trusting relationships with children & families, may involve support within family homes
• working with individuals & groups across all stages to support inclusion & attainment of children in SIMD 1&2
• providing advice, signposting resources & supports to children & families
• tracking attendance & attainment
• raising attainment by supporting learners through targeted interventions & strategies to improve literacy, numeracy & social skills
• supporting wider achievement through promotion & provision of extra-curricular activities

Requirements

Successful candidate will have experience working with children & families, be caring, enthusiastic, creative, well organised & passionate about supporting children/young people to be and do their very best.

Desirable experience

• Nurturing approaches
• Working with parents
• Tracking attendance & attainment
• Supporting social & emotional needs through a variety of approaches
• Raising attainment by supporting learners through targeted interventions & strategies
• Monitoring impact of interventions/planning next steps

Pre-employment checks

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.

Equality, inclusion and interview approach

We are 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 are 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 are 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 learn more about Our Behaviours on the council’s Our Behaviours page.

Additional information

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. Follow us on X at @edincounciljobs. View the Pupil Support Officer job description and person specification, and sessional working information on the council website.