Pupil Support Worker (Full time & Part Time hours available) - MOR10865

Salary: £27,994.20 - £30,245.28 per year pro rata

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Part Time

Hours: 0 hours per week

To work directly with primary and secondary school aged children and young people who display social, emotional, behavioural and communication needs. To work with education providers and partners to promote inclusive practice and trauma informed learning environments. Through a focus on health and wellbeing you will support a nurturing, restorative, solution focussed environment where children and young people work towards positive social, emotional and behavioural self-management and sensory response using known strategies and approaches. You will work with colleagues to establish trusting and empowering relationships with children and young people to promote independence, resilience, and re-engagement with learning. You will support the planning and will deliver targeted and time limited individual and small group work programmes to meet identified priorities for children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with children and young people and colleagues to model and promote inclusive practice and trauma informed learning environments.
• Support the planning required in order to work with colleagues to deliver, evidence and evaluate individual and small group work programmes to meet identified priorities for children and young people, including alternative curricular activities which reduce social anxiety and stress.
• Support and facilitate the delivery of wellbeing and wider achievement awards for children and young people.
• Support the development and delivery of services within the Central ASN Team.
• Health and Safety duties linked to pupils.

The Individual

• Experience of work with children and young people who display social, emotional, and behavioural needs.
• Experience of working with children and young people with social and communication needs.
• Experience of working within a young person's environment.
• A minimum of 4 national 5s, or 4 Standard Grades at level 2 or above. Must include English and Maths.
• Self confident and self motivated.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to plan and facilitate activities.
• Effective communication skills, oral and written.
• Effective organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team contributing to service development.
• Display ability and commitment to training and subsequent staff development as required.
• Child centred.
• Collation and management of information.
• Appreciation, acceptance of and a commitment to the importance of confidentiality in line with policies and procedures.
• Capacity to establish productive working relationships with children and young people.
• Confident to deliver small group work.
• Nurturing.
• Solution focused.
• Knowledge of Child Protection policies.
• You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the Service.
• To be able to engage positively with children and young people.
• Calm, consistent, fair and non judgemental.
• Ability to diffuse potentially difficult situations.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships.
• Approachability and willingness to help.
• Willingness to accept direction/ delegation.
• Resilience.
• Flexibility to meet the needs and demands of the service.
• Capacity to deal with emotionally difficult and sensitive situations.

This post is considered to be a ‘Regulated Role’ under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Under the Act it is a legal requirement for an individual undertaking a regulated role with children or protected adults to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme. Therefore the successful candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check prior to any formal offer of employment being made by Moray Council.

Start Date: no earlier than week commencing 18 August 2025

Closing Date: 15 June 2025

Starting Salary: £27,994.20 (pro rata) £14.55 per hour

Various hours available, minimum 10 hours per week to maximum 30 hours per week (term time only)

For further information contact: Moray SEBN Service, telephone 01343 557914, email admin.sebn@moray-edunet.gov.uk