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Pupil Support Officer - Wellbeing
St Augustine’s RC High School
Salary: £26,788 - £30,751 per year
Hours: 36 per week, 39 weeks sessional
The school is a Catholic secondary school of approximately 960 students situated in the west of the City of Edinburgh. Its catchment area encompasses five Catholic primary schools extending from South Queensferry in the north to Balerno in the south. However, as a result of parental choice, our current S1 contains students drawn from 31 primaries.
St Augustine’s stresses the importance of high levels of achievement for every student and there is a strong sense of community within the school. All staff of St Augustine’s, teaching and non-teaching, are prepared to make a positive contribution to the school as a whole and to play their part as members of the St Augustine’s community.
Pupil Support Officers play a key role in supporting the assessment, planning and direct support of children, young people and their families in relation to relationships and emotional health and wellbeing.
• Promote better relationships, better learning and better behaviour through liaising and promoting understanding between school, children, young people and families.
• Support the development of positive relationships and Emotional Wellbeing of children and young people using evidence based interventions with individual learners and groups
• Build links with families to promote participation in their children’s learning and remove barriers to their and their children’s involvement in school life
• Effectively link families with, and support their attendance at, local authority evidence based parenting groups
• Make links with relevant organisations in the community to develop networks of support and opportunity to complement school-based and partner services and agencies support
For further information please visit our website at www. st-augustines.edin.sch.uk or to discuss the post please contact the Business Manager at St Augustine’s.
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.
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