After School & Holiday Club Practitioner and Early Years Teaching Assistant
ESMS - The Junior School
Edinburgh, City of
- £17,846 - £20,202 per year
- Salary:
- Remuneration is dependent on skills and experience.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2024
- Apply by:
- 12 August 2024
Job overview
Erskine Stewarts Melville Schools are seeking to appoint a number of enthusiastic and dynamic staff members to join the ESMS Junior School as a combined After School & Holiday Club Practitioner/ Early Years Teaching Assistant on a permanent basis from August 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.
This is a hybrid role with two main roles. As an After School & Holiday Club Practitioner, you will be working within an enthusiastic and dynamic team. Successful candidates will be responsible for the out of school care of boys and girls aged from Nursery to P3 based at Ravelston.
As an Early Years Teaching Assistant, the successful candidate will be ready to support our Nursery and Primary 1 children as they enjoy hot lunches in our dining pods. These spaces are designed to replicate a ‘family dining’ experience.
The successful applicants will be able to multi-task and will be comfortable working with young children, especially when supporting and facilitating play. It is essential that the candidate is committed to the ESMS values, has good attention to detail, a great sense of humour, works quickly and efficiently and is a team player.
This is a permanent post for 31.25 hours per week during term time (Monday to Friday from 11.15 am to 1.15pm as an Early Years Teaching Assistant and from 1.45pm to 6pm as an After School Club Practitioner) and 26.25 hours per week on a rota basis during holiday periods as a Holiday Club Practitioner. Should the successful candidate wish to, there would be the potential for additional hours to be offered.
Remuneration will be dependent on qualifications and experience. The salary range for unqualified After School & Holiday Club Practitioners/Early Years Teaching Assistant is £17,846 to £19,031 per annum which is point 8-11 on the ESMS e-Plus salary scale. Qualified After School & Holiday Club Practitioners/Early Years Teaching Assistant will be paid on the ESMS e-Plus Scale point 13-16 which is £19,593 to £20,202 per annum.
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.
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.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Applicants must visit https://jobsearch.esms.org.uk/ to apply for this position. Please submit the application before the closing date.
Any enquiries about this position should be directed to Morven Wrinn, HR Assistant, at
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Monday 12 August 2024. Interviews will be arranged as applications are received.
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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