Primary Teacher - Additional Support for Learning Service

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Primary Teacher - Fixed term until 26th June 2025
Additional Support for Learning Service

Salary: £33,594 - £50,589
Hours: 35 hours per week x North East Edinburgh
Hours: 35 hours per week x North West Edinburgh

The post is to work collaboratively with education establishments providing information, support and advice in relation to vulnerable learners facing barriers to their learning. This could include learners with a range of needs, including those with complex needs, communication difficulties (including autism) learning disability, social, emotional and behavioural needs and anxious non-attenders.

Applicants wishing to apply on a secondment basis should seek the approval of their line manager before applying.

The Additional Support for Learning service is a peripatetic service and applicants must be willing to work anywhere in the city, and in any school including specialist provisions.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

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.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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