Pupil Support Leader (Gaelic Medium) - James Gillespie's High School

Pupil Support Leader - Gaelic Medium
James Gillespie's High School

Salary: £62,022 - £62,022
Hours: 35 per week

James Gillespie's High School is seeking to recruit a highly-skilled and enthusiastic Pupil Support Leader (GME) who is passionate about improving life chances for all, through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positive outcomes for our children and young people.

The pastoral function of our school is currently structured around 4 communities, each with a Community Head, Pupil Support Leaders and a Support for Learning lead teacher. This new post has been created to support pupils in the newly established GME community - Darach.

The successful candidate will be joining a dynamic and motivated learning community, who place young people at the heart of everything we do. As the only provider of secondary Gaelic Medium Education (GME) in Scotland's capital city, we are committed to the expansion of high-quality Gaelic learning and value the significant responsibility we have to nurture and help cultivate the Gaelic language as an integral part of our shared heritage and identity.

Fluency, both written and spoken, in the Gaelic language is desirable and a knowledge of Gaelic culture are essential for this post.

For further information please visit our website at www.jamesgillespies.co.uk or email .uk.

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.

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

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.

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