LOCATION:
Perth High School Oakbank Road Perth, PH1 1HB
SALARY:
£18,616 - £19,623 per year
CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent
POSITION TYPE:
Part Time
HOURS:
30 hours per week
We currently have the following opportunity:
School & Pupil Support Officer (2 posts) - PKC13094
£18,816 - £19, hours per week, term-time only)
Perth High School
We are looking for a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Business Support team as School and Pupil Support Officer.
About the School
This is an exciting time to join our team Perth High School is a large, friendly and welcoming comprehensive, drawing pupils from a mix of Perth City and rural Perthshire.
We are an ambitious school, for all of our people and are undergoing a significant period of change both in our development as a school community and we have just completed the incredibly exciting move to our state of the art Passivhaus standard building completed in August 2025.
Skills & Experience Required
Support the School
* Assist staff with monitoring pupil attendance.
* Communicate with staff and parent's regarding pupil's unexplained absence and illness.
* Update SEEMIS with pupil absence and annual data information.
* Recording of staff/pupil injuries/illness and pupils prescribed medicine.
* Collect pupils from classes when required for meetings with Headteacher or Depute Headteacher.
* Escort service for pupils during the school day.
* Build good and trusting relationships with children and adhere to child protection and equalities legislation.
* Provide support for children with specific health or medical needs where appropriate.
* Provide first aid as required to children and staff.
* Provide comfort and care for minor accidents.
* Ordering of first aid supplies.
* Organise annual immunisation programme.
* Operate CCTV equipment.
* Operate reprographic equipment, collate and issue print materials.
* Assist with management and maintenance of resources across the school.
* Operate departmental systems including for the input, collation and retrieval of information and carry out searches as required.
* Maintain and utilise other electronic databases for the input, collation and retrieval of information as required.
* Maintain various records, registers and statistical information, both manual and computerised.
* Assist with a range of administrative functions conducted within the locality including and operation of Multi-Functional Devices and printers.
Support the Staff
* Assist teaching staff in the support and supervision of children within class and on visits to ensure safety.
* Supervision of children in and out with school premises during learning times, intervals and lunchtime.
* Assume specific responsibilities in agreed and planned procedures for emergencies and contingency planning.
Support the Children
* Build good and trusting relationships with children and adhere to child protection and equalities legislation.
* 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.
* Provide first aid as required to children and staff.
* Provide comfort and care for minor accidents, ailments or upsets.
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.