Pupil Support Assistant

Pilrig Park School is looking to appoint 3 highly motivated and enthusiastic Pupil Support Assistants. The successful candidates will have a passion, desire and commitment to working with young people with additional support needs. You will be part of a Pupil Support Assistant team working alongside class teachers throughout the school. At Pilrig Park School, we aim to provide opportunities for all pupils to achieve in a nurturing environment.

The school works effectively with partners and the community to ensure that every pupil has flexible pathways to develop skills, knowledge and understanding for life, learning, and work. Pilrig Park School is a non-denominational special school situated in the Leith area of Edinburgh. The school provides education for secondary-aged learners with complex long-term additional support needs. A strength of the school is our multi-agency approach to supporting our learners, and school staff work closely with Educational Psychologists, the Additional Support for Learning Service, the CAMHS Learning Disability Team, Allied Health Professionals, and third-sector partners in order to meet the needs of all learners.

Our vision is to provide safe, high-quality, holistic education ensuring equity and inclusion for all our pupils through seamless, compassionate, and dignified specialised provision. 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. 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.

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 ensure 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.

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.