Support Worker (Part-time) - Big Noise Wester Hailes, Edinburgh

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 Wester Hailes in Edinburgh, Raploch & Fallin in Stirling, Govanhill in Glasgow, Torry in Aberdeen and Douglas in Dundee.

We are looking for a Support Worker to join our organisation as part of the dynamic team in Big Noise Wester Hailes, delivering a visionary, socially driven children’s orchestra centre. Big Noise Wester Hailes 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 Wester Hailes 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 post, working 7 hours per week during school term time only (40 weeks of the year) with hours worked across a combination of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons. The exact working pattern will be agreed with the appointed candidate.

Salary for this post is £25,848 - £27,680 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 https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

For further details please visit our website https://makeabignoise.org.uk/work-with-us 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 recruitment@sistemascotland.org.uk or telephone 01786 236914.

If you are interested in this vacancy, but would like some assistance with completing the application form, please email recruitment@sistemascotland.org.uk

Closing date for all applications is Wednesday, 18th February 2026 at 10.00 am.

Interviews are expected to take place in Wester Hailes (Edinburgh) on Monday, 23rd February 2026.

All successful applicants will be subject to PVG check.