The City of Edinburgh Council is recruiting a Pupil Support Assistant vacancy at Wester Hailes High School focused on Inclusion and Enhanced Support Provision.
The post is permanent working part-time 30 hours a week during term time (39 weeks a year) with a salary of £26,788 – £30,751 per year (pro rata for part-time and sessional).
Job Purpose
- Pupil support officers play a key role in supporting the assessment, planning and direct support of children, young people and their families in relation to relationships and emotional health and wellbeing.
Major Tasks
- Promote better relationships, better learning and better behaviour through liaising and promoting understanding between school, children, young people and families.
- Support the development of positive relationships and emotional wellbeing of children and young people using evidence based interventions with individual learners and groups.
- Build links with families to promote participation in their children’s learning and remove barriers to their and their children’s involvement in school life.
- Effectively link families with, and support their attendance at, local authority evidence based parenting groups.
- Make links with relevant organisations in the community to develop networks of support and opportunity to complement school-based and partner services and agencies support.
- Support strengths based, solution focussed individual planning and review.
- Support planning and delivery of whole school /individual plans for example; behaviour, family engagement, risk management and child or young people’s plans with the involvement of all key parties including parents/carers and school partners.
- This list is indicative of activity, not exhaustive, and describes a range of typical activities undertaken by the post holder.
You can read the full job description and apply for the post online here. The closing date for applications is 25 June 2024.
