Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Supervisory Assistant (Dining Room) - fixed term until 26/06/2025
Gracemount Primary School
Salary: £24,346 - £24,646 (pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 7.5 per week, 38 weeks sessional
Monday to Thursday 11:30am- 1pm (1.5 hours per day over lunch period)
Friday 10-11:30am (1.5 hours organisation of packed lunch delivery to children's classes)
The successful candidate will provide supervision to children during non-teaching times, namely when eating lunch in the classroom, the dining room and/or in the playground. We have a friendly team of staff in the dining room, who work together to try to enhance the lunch experience of the children.
The post holder will be responsible, under the direction of the Business Manager or Head Teacher or such other officer as may be designated by the Authority, individually or as a member of a team, for securing the safety, welfare and good conduct of pupils during the midday break period in accordance with the practices and procedures of the local authority.
Duties will include:
- Supervision of the pupils during lunch period, playground areas and school premises
- Ancillary associated duties (e.g. cleaning up spillages, ensuring tables are clean etc.)
- To ensure the maintenance of good order and discipline.
- To promote the nurturing ethos of the school and foster good relationships with pupils and staff.
- Encouraging children to eat a healthy lunch, and to eat their lunch before heading outside to play.
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.
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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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