Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Pupil Support Assistant - Fixed term until 26/6/2025
Forrester High School
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 per year (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 27.5 per week, 39 weeks sessional
The role of the Pupil Support Assistant will be to help with the educational, care and welfare needs of all pupils ensuring those with additional needs, who are able to attend a mainstream school, can effectively access the curriculum.
You will be joining a high achieving and successful department and other teams of staff who are dedicated to providing the best for all our young people. This is a demanding role and you should be committed to raising the attainment and achievement of all our pupils.
Forrester High School is a state of the art PPP school opened in January 2010. All classrooms are fully equipped to a very high standard and teaching classrooms all have access to an interactive whiteboard.
Since 2012, the school has rolled out iPads to certain year groups to help improve their learning in the classroom and at home. As a 1:1 computing school, all teachers and assistants have the latest Apple technology which includes iPads and there are Apple TV’s in every classroom.
Sports facilities are exceptional and include Games Halls, Gym, Swimming Pool, Fitness Suite, 3G and 2G artificial pitches as well as conventional grass pitches for both rugby and football.
For more information about the school, please visit the website http://forresterhighschool.org.uk/ or call 0131 334 9262.
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.
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.
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.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page 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.
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