LOCATION:
Oakbank Primary School Viewlands Road West Perth, PH1 1NA
SALARY:
£8,251 - £8,618 per year
CONTRACT TYPE:
Temporary
POSITION TYPE:
Part Time
HOURS:
14 hours per week
We currently have the following opportunity:
Primary School Support Assistant (Fixed Term until 16 August PKC13002
£8,251 - £8, hours per week)
Oakbank Primary School
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to assist in ensuring high quality school administration and operational effectiveness and to contribute to the positive ethos of the school.
The successful candidate will also have a main role in the school office as well as supervising our children during playtime and at lunch, including in the dinner hall.
As our Primary School Support Assistant, you will:
* Provide a general reception service, receive visitors, issue visitor cards and deal with enquiries from the public, both in person and on the telephone. Pass on relevant information or refer caller/visitor to appropriate source.
* Handle school finances and related systems such as procurement, school dinner and attendance systems
* Operate reprographic equipment, collate and issue print materials.
* Assist with management, maintenance, ordering and receipting of resources across the school.
* Become a trained first aider and administer First Aid as required to children and staff.
* Support the wider life of the school e.g. special seasonal events, organise school trips, organisation of parents' evenings and prize giving.
* Assume specific responsibilities in agreed and planned procedures for emergencies.
* Build good and trusting relationships with children and families and adhere to child protection and equalities legislation.
* Assist in promoting and raising the standards of children's experiences through the provision of quality support in school, providing pastoral support to the children by carrying out any specific role below at particular times depending on your deployment in the school.
* Attend to the personal needs of the children and assist in maintaining a healthy, safe and hygienic environment.
* Provide support for children with specific health or medical needs where appropriate.
Skills & Experience Required
You may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description for the post. The particular duties and responsibilities attached to posts may vary from time to time depending on the requirements of the Service without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibilities entailed.
Requirements
* Good organisation and administrative skills.
* You must be able to use ICT including Word & Excel for a variety of purposes.
* Ideally you will have knowledge of Child Protection procedures.
* Ideally you will have previous experience of working in a primary school.
* The ability to communicate effectively with children, colleagues and parents verbally and in writing.
* You will have a flexible attitude to sharing duties.
* You must be willing to work indoors and outdoors.
* You will be committed to the wider life of the school.
* You will contribute to the performance and good reputation of the school by achieving team objectives and priorities.
* You will demonstrate personal commitment to tasks and objectives, routinely delivering a first-class service to all customers.
* You will demonstrate a willingness to work in a collaborative environment.
* You must be able to work independently and use your initiative.
Working at Perth & Kinross Council
Our values and behaviours influence our work and support us in the delivery of our key priorities. In your application, and should you be invited to interview, you will be asked to describe situations that support the criteria required in the role and which also demonstrate our values and behaviours.