Pupil Support Assistant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - City of Edinburgh Council
Description
Job Description
Children, Education & Justice Services
Pupil Support Assistant - Fixed term until 20/12/2024
Additional Support for Learning Service
North West Edinburgh
Salary: £24,064 - £26,468 (Pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 26 per week, 39 weeks sessional
This post is to work specifically with children with additional support needs in primary and secondary schools across Edinburgh. Applicants must have experience of supporting children and young people to regulate their behaviour.
Whilst this role is being advertised for a specific areas, the Additional Support for Learning service is a peripatetic service and applicants must be willing to work anywhere in the city. The successful candidate could be asked to work in any school in the city, including our specialist provision and with a range of needs including support for children with personal care and children and young people who require support with self or mutual regulation which sometimes can result in physical harm.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. 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. An unconditional 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.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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