Pupil Support Officer
Canal View Primary School
Salary: £30, - £34, (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 29.75 per week, 39 weeks sessional
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual who can work collaboratively as a member of the school team to help pupils meet their educational, care and welfare needs, ensuring those with intensive and complex and/or a high level of language support needs can effectively access the curriculum. The successful candidate will work directly with parents of pupils to provide advice and give feedback on matters relating to their child and must be flexible and provide support and assistance in the day-to-day operations of the school as directed by the school leadership team.
The hours are 29.75 hours per week, Mondays to Thursdays 8.45am to 3.45pm 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 75% 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, 2 Principal Teachers 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 Support Assistant.