Pupil Support Officer - Fixed term until 26/06/
Gracemount Learning Community - Gracemount High school, Gracemount Primary School & Frogston Primary School
Salary: £29,-£33, (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 8 per week, 39 weeks sessional
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Gracemount Learning Community (Gracemount Primary, Frogston Primary and Gracemount High School), for an enthusiastic person to join our team as Pupil Support Officer supporting learners across the three schools. The successful candidate will be someone who is nurturing in their approach and is capable of building positive relationships with our pupils, parents and staff. At Gracemount we believe that better relationships enable better learning and this will produce better behaviour in school. We are looking for a dynamic, creative applicant who is committed to working to improve the lives and outcomes of the young people in the Gracemount community, particularly those with significant additional needs. In particular we are seeking someone who has skills and experience of outdoor learning and could work flexibly with our learning community to develop the provision of outdoor learning.
Gracemount Learning Community has a highly committed and highly motivated staff team who work effectively to meet the needs in our school. Staff are keen to embrace the debate around equity and closing the gap and we are building long-term sustainable supports to meet the needs of our pupils. We are keen to have high expectations for all and be as aspirational as possible building resilience and working hard to remove barriers to learning.
Please see attached Job Specification for more info on the role of a Pupil Support Officer.
Any internal candidates should have approval from their line manager if wishing to be accepted on a secondment basis.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. 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. Anunconditional 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.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page 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.