ASN Assistant - ARB18165

Service: Education

Closing Date: Friday 7th August 2026

ASN Assistant within the Kintyre Area, these hours are located within Rhunahaorine Primary and Clachan Primary Schools. The post will involve working with specific children across two school settings. 10 hours of the post will be working with a number of children at Rhunahaorine Primary School. The hours worked at Rhunahaorine can be negotiated with the successful candidate to offer flexibility across the week. 6 hours will be working with specific children at Clachan Primary School and have been set for 9:00am-12:00 noon on both Thursdays and Fridays. There may be some additional hours available at both schools for the successful candidate. In both schools you will work as part of a team in a multicomposite class. Rhunahaorine has a role of 8 children from P1-P7 and Clachan has a role of 11 children across the primary stages. This role brings a wonderful opportunity for further collaboration between these two cluster schools in the MAKI area.

Interviews for this post will take place week beginning 24th August. Our employees make good things happen in the day-to-day life and for the longer term future of Argyll and Bute. We want you to feel valued working for us. We offer various benefits to support you, such as a competitive salary, pension scheme, generous leave entitlement, cycle to work scheme, discounts on gym memberships and leisure centres, wellbeing initiatives, and opportunities for learning and career growth. We also embrace a modern approach to work, offering a flexible first approach where possible to requests from our employees to how they work. We care about our people and the world around us and always aim to do the right thing.

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Argyll and Bute Council recognises the numerous benefits of a positive work-life balance to the wellbeing and productivity of our employees. We will take a flexible first approach to requests from our employees to change the way that they work. While we must balance such requests with the need to ensure the quality of the important services we deliver is not compromised, we will ensure that each request is given careful consideration with a view to achieving a positive outcome wherever possible.

This post is temporary until 02 July 2027. Applicants should note that this post requires Protection of Vulnerable Group (PVG) Membership in relation to working with children. The salary shown is the full time equivalent salary, the actual salary will be paid pro rata for the hours worked, on a term time basis. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013, as amended, applies to this post. This is a temporary post which may be filled on a secondment basis by an employee wishing to gain experience/career development and will be at the discretion of the employee’s Third Tier Manager.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging.