Pupil Support Assistant - Frogston Primary School

Pupil Support Assistant
Frogston Primary School

Salary: £25,905 - £26,111 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: Various as below:

Hours: Post 1: Permanent 25 hours per week, 39 weeks sessional
Hours: Post 2: Permanent 15 hours per week, 39 weeks sessional

This is an exciting opportunity for two Pupil Support Assistants to join our dynamic team. The successful candidates will be enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and will share our passion for ensuring the highest possible quality of learning for our young children.

Frogston Primary opened in August 2020. The school is situated within the new housing development to the south of Frogston Road East with an outstanding new building and extensive, beautifully landscaped grounds. We use our environment, both indoors and out, to promote excitement, innovation, creativity and independence in all teaching and learning opportunities. The school has experienced rapid growth and is currently being extended. The extension works are due to be completed during the current school session. This will increase our capacity to 620 pupils, alongside our early learning and childcare facility with capacity for 112 pupils. We currently have seventeen classes from P1 to Primary 7 with around 460 pupils.

For more information, please visit our website https://frogstonprimary.wordpress.com

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.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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