Teacher Assistant (Nursery) and Early Birds Assistant
ESMS - The Junior School
Edinburgh, City of
- £16,411 - £17,673 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- 16/08/2023
- Apply by:
- 9 June 2023
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a Teacher Assistant (Nursery) and Early Birds Assistant to join the ESMS Junior School on a part-time temporary basis to start from the 16 August 2023 until 28 June 2024. ESMS staff are passionate, pioneering and strive for excellence in everything they do. We value the incredible contributions they make to school life, we invest in their careers and we support their ambitions so that they flourish professionally and personally.
The successful candidate will have experience of working with children, and ideally experience of supporting Class Teachers and Early Years Practitioners in the Nursery environment. They will be able to multi-task and prioritise their own workload with good attention to detail. It is essential that the candidate is committed to the ESMS values and is a team player.
The hours of work will be Monday to Friday during term time only: 7.30am to 8.30am as an Early Birds Assistant and 8.30am to 3pm as a Teacher Assistant with 30 minutes unpaid for lunch. The postholder will be contracted for 35 hours per week.
Remuneration will be dependent on qualifications and experience. Unqualified Teacher Assistants will be paid on the ESMS Support Staff Scale B which is £16,411 per annum. Qualified Teacher Assistants will be paid on the ESMS Support Staff Scale C which is £16,411-£17,673 per annum.
ESMS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and Disclosure Scotland.
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 9 June 2023 and we anticipate interviews will be held week beginning 12 June 2023.
Attached documents
About ESMS - The Junior School
- ESMS - The Junior School
- Queensferry Road, Edinburgh
- Midlothian
- EH4 3EZ
- United Kingdom
The ESMS Junior School is a large, independent, co-educational, non-denominational day school of approximately 1250 children aged 3-12, who become members of either The Mary Erskine School or Stewart's Melville College when they finish Primary 7. It is situated in central Edinburgh. Admission is through assessment.
The Junior School has excellent facilities of its own as well as sharing those of the two senior schools. The ethos of the school is that each child’s individuality is nurtured within a structured and disciplined framework. We firmly believe that happy children will achieve more academically and in extra-curricular activities. The atmosphere is therefore a caring one with great emphasis on encouraging children to take part in the many opportunities open to them. Children are encouraged to take responsibility whilst being challenged both academically and in general as young people. They learn to make choices and develop confidence in a supportive and positive environment in which our nine values, common across all three schools, are central to everything we do.
Specialist teaching is available in Music, Drama, Dance, PE, Games, French, Art and ICT.
A wrap-around care service is also provided before and after school.
The Nursery and Primary 1-3 classrooms in the Junior School are situated within the grounds of The Mary Erskine School and Primary 4-7 children are based within the grounds of Stewart’s Melville College.
ESMS offers excellent facilities, such as a state-of-the-art performing arts centre, large swimming pool, tennis courts, rugby and hockey pitches and floodlit astroturf pitches.
Headteacher
Mike Kane
Principal
Mr Anthony Simpson
Values and vision
The ESMS Junior School has nine core values that are recognised by all members of the school community: kindness, respect, commitment, enthusiasm, responsibility, grace, appreciation, confidence and integrity.
We do not follow the Curriculum for Excellence. We believe that what we offer reflects the values which are an essential element within the CfE but we also believe in the importance of a structured and more formal approach to the development of our children’s skills and confidence in all curricular areas, in particular Language and Mathematics. Regular and relevant assessments are integral to our approach, as is our commitment to ensuring that children and their parents are kept informed of their progress.
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