Do you have experience in a supportive role in an education or community setting?
Do you have experience of working with children and families?
Sistema Scotland’s vision is to improve lives and strengthen communities. Working with children and their families, the programme is focused on early intervention and stimulating generational social change, increasing confidence, aspiration, community cohesion, pride, and developing high level skills in the young people involved. We deliver our work through the creation of Big Noise programmes within communities, and currently run six programmes in Douglas in Dundee, Raploch & Fallin in Stirling, Govanhill in Glasgow, Torry in Aberdeen and Wester Hailes in Edinburgh.
We are looking for a Support Worker to join our organisation as part of the dynamic team in Big Noise Douglas, delivering a visionary, socially driven children’s orchestra centre. Big Noise Douglas runs an after-school programme 4 days a week during term time and a holiday school 4 days a week during the Easter, summer and October holidays. The principal duties of a Support Worker at Big Noise Douglas are to support Big Noise musicians as they deliver the after-school programme; participating in sessions, modelling engagement and attention for the children whilst building strong relationships with the children and families to assist them in maximising their potential.
This is a permanent, all-year round post and the hours of work are as follows:
1. Academic Term Time: 9 hours per week as follows: Monday to Thursday 2.45 - 5.00pm
2. School holidays: 18 hours per week as follows: 4.5 hours per day, working Monday to Thursday 9.00 am – 1.30 pm
Salary for this post is £25, - £27, per annum, pro-rata (£14.20 per hour).
We welcome applications from diverse cultural backgrounds. We also welcome applications from all nationalities; however, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for these roles, so before you apply for this post please ensure that you have the right to work in the UK. For more details on eligibility to work in the UK, please visit>For further details please visit our website where you can view the full job/person specification and complete our online application form (no CVs please). For any additional information please e-mail or telephone .
If you are interested in this vacancy, but would like some assistance with completing the application form, please email
Closing date for all applications is Friday, 12th December at 10:00 am
Interviews are expected to take place in Douglas (Dundee) during week commencing 15th December (exact date to be confirmed)
All successful applicants will be subject to PVG check.