Junior School Assistant (including Games)
ESMS - The Junior School
Edinburgh, City of
- New
- Salary:
- £18,476 per annum.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 8 January 2025
- Apply by:
- 1 November 2024
Job overview
Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools are currently recruiting for a Junior School Assistant (including Games) to join the Junior School on a temporary basis from 8 January 2025 (subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks). The role is full-time, term-time, working 37.5 hours with a salary of £18,476 per annum. The role is based at the Junior School on the Queensferry Road site.
The Junior School Assistant supports Year Group Leaders, Class Teachers, and Teacher Assistants at ESMS Junior School, providing in-class help, playground and dining hall supervision, and administrative assistance. They assist with the Junior School Games programme, including weekly sessions and Saturday mornings, and help with Breakfast and 420 Bus Clubs on a rota. The role also involves supervising students during residential camps and supporting school events like shows and concerts.
The successful candidate will have experience working with children, ideally with some sports involvement, and possess strong organisational, multitasking, and teamwork skills. They will be kind, enthusiastic, and prioritise children's needs, with excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
To learn more about this role, please access the job description provided.
Eligibility
ESMS is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. The successful candidate will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right work in the UK.
Benefits
Staff are offered a range of benefits including: a generous holiday allowance, enhanced sick pay, family friendly policies, use of the Schools’ swimming pool and fitness room outside school hours, membership of the ESMS Discount and Benefits Scheme, including a range of discounts at 130,000 retail and entertainment locations.
Values
We are looking for individuals who can embody and promote ESMS values of Kindness, Confidence, Resilience, Integrity, and Curiosity while role modelling behaviours in line with our school pillars of Ambition, Innovation, and Community.
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.
All staff working at ESMS have direct access to young people therefore all posts within the school are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
In order to apply for the position, applicants must visit https://jobsearch.esms.org.uk/ to submit their application form.
Any enquiries about this position should be directed to the ESMS Recruitment Team at recruitment@esms.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 1 November 2024. We anticipate interviews will be held week commencing 11 November 2024.
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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