Clerical Assistant - Currie Community High School in Edinburgh

Salary: £26,806 - £27,032 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)

Hours: 19 per week, 40 weeks sessional. The working pattern for this post is 8:00-16:00 Monday and Tuesday (with 45 minutes of breaks) and 8:00-12:45 (with 15 minute break) on Fridays. This post is term time with one additional week worked in the summer holidays.

Currie Community High School is situated to the south west of the City of Edinburgh and serves 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 have very recently moved into our new school which is 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 benefits 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.

We are seeking a part time Clerical Assistant to join our team permanently, based in the school office performing administrative and reception tasks. They will operate various computerised systems and have sound knowledge and experience in this area. Excellent organisational and communication skills are essential along with the ability to work to deadlines and use initiative. The successful candidate will demonstrate positivity and flexibility, and will engage with confidential information sensitively.

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.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page.

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

Happy to talk flexible working.