Pupil Support Officer - Pentland Primary School - 11804_1759239268

The City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in Edinburgh seeks a Pupil Support Officer to enhance support for children and families. The role involves building trusting relationships and assisting with literacy and numeracy. Ideal candidates are experienced with children and families, with a caring, creative approach to support and education. This is a fixed-term position offering 28 hours per week until June 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience in nurturing approaches.
• Experience working with parents.
• Ability to track attendance and attainment.
• Support social and emotional needs effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support assessment and planning for children and families.
• Build trusting relationships with children and families.
• Provide advice and resources to children and families.
• Track attendance and attainment.

Skills

Experience working with children

Caring and enthusiastic

Creative and organized

Passionate about supporting children

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

• Support the assessment, planning and direct support of children, young people, and families to address the poverty related attainment gap & promote equity.
• Play a key role in supporting children to be ready to learn & achieve, particularly in literacy & numeracy.
• Build trusting relationships with children & families, may involve support within family homes.
• Work with individuals & groups across all stages to support inclusion & attainment of children in SIMD 1&2.
• Provide advice, signposting resources & supports to children & families.
• Track attendance & attainment.
• Raise attainment by supporting learners through targeted interventions & strategies to improve literacy, numeracy & social skills.
• Support wider achievement through promotion & provision of extra-curricular activities.

Qualifications & qualities

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.

It would be desirable for candidates to have experience in:

• 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

Regulated work & 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.

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.

Our behaviours & interview approach

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together, we are moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This will help 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 City of Edinburgh Council website.

Additional information

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. We welcome flexible working.

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