School Support Assistant - Currie Community High School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

School Support Assistant
Currie Community High School

Salary: £23,651 - £23,857 (pro-rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 21 per week, 39 weeks sessional

Currie Community High School is situated to the south west of the City of Edinburgh serving the communities of Currie, Riccarton, Juniper Green and Baberton Mains. The school has served the local community for some 350 years. The school enjoys excellent links with the local community and as a designated community high school, a quality community programme is offered. The school’s SQA results are above both local and national averages and an extensive range of wider achievement opportunities are offered. The school is firmly committed to raising attainment and promoting positive achievement, leading to a high level of positive and sustained destinations.

Our school values of Ambition, Respect, Equality underpin our positive culture and ethos; where celebrating success of our wonderful young people is at the heart of what we do. We also recognise the importance of our school as a community and we have been recently awarded the Gold LGBT Charter Mark which we are very proud of. We are also working towards Rights Respecting School status and we hold a Silver Food For Life Catering award and Green Eco Schools status. We were also awarded Scotland’s Most Enterprising School in 2021. This is just a flavour of the innovative approaches which make Currie Community High School a unique, desirable and welcoming place to work.

We are very excited to be moving to a new school build early 2025 which will be the first Passivhaus school in Scotland. Our vision for the new school encompasses innovative and cutting edge pedagogy with the development of 21st Century ready skills at the core of all we do. The school will benefit from inspirational learning spaces and technology including high quality outdoor spaces to enable young people to become leaders of their own learning and to experience a broad, varied and bespoke curriculum.

The role
We are seeking a skilled and motivated School Support Assistant to provide administrative support to faculties and support the main school office as required. Key responsibilities include reprographic duties and procurement.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a busy office environment and be willing to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service. They will be a competent user of ICT with excellent communication skills.

This role is one of supporting the staff team and does not involve working directly with young people.

The sessional working information attached to this advert explains how salaries are calculated for sessional and part time posts. This post is 0.51FTE so the salary will be approximately 51% of the salary range above.

Working hours
The working pattern can be over 3, 4 or 5 days, though must include Monday and Tuesday.

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.

Requirements

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.

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.

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

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