Support for Learning Assistant

2 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Teacheroo Full time

The Role
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and caring Support for Learning Assistant to join our busy whole school Support for Learning Department from August 2024.

The Support for Learning Department at Heriot’s has seen significant development in recent years and enjoys an excellent reputation, which reaches beyond the School itself. The Department currently consists of the Head of Support for Learning, Junior & Senior School Support for Learning Coordinators, a small team of full and part time SfL teachers and one assistant. The school also benefits from a part-time Educational Psychologist.

The Support for Learning Assistant is responsible for providing learning support in the Junior and Senior schools - both within the classroom and for wider activities involving pupils.

Main Responsibilities
Please see attached job description.

You will hold the following skills and experiences
- Knowledge and understanding of additional support needs and interventions
- Previous demonstrable experience in a similar role supporting individual pupils with learning and/or physical needs
- Appropriate academic qualifications that would enable successful support as a reader and scribe
- Additional qualifications relevant to the role would be advantageous though not essential
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Good interpersonal and listening skills
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Competent in use of technology, Microsoft Office, Google etc
- Highly empathic and patient
- Proactive and intuitive
- Flexible and resilient to cope with the demands of role

**Additional Information**
Heriot’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Please note that parking is not available on our campus
- George Heriot’s School is governed by George Heriot’s Trust, Scottish Charity number SC011463_

About the school/organisation
**George Heriot’s School**

It might be difficult to imagine a school you haven’t seen, situated in the shadows of Edinburgh Castle on a World Heritage site, echoing the Castle’s turreted structure in its striking main building, The Wark.

George Heriot’s School foundation stone was laid in 1628, thanks to the vision of early philanthropist, goldsmith and court jeweller George Heriot. George Heriot’s vision, inspired by what he had witnessed at Christ’s Hospital School, was to create a school for fatherless children. The school opened its doors in 1659 and expanded in the 1800’s to create a further 18 out-schools for the children of Edinburgh, educating many thousands of children before the advent of the 1872 Education Act, when schooling became managed by the state.

The school has survived Cromwell’s troops, two world wars and evolved in its nine-acre city centre site to become today the leading independent school in Scotland, as voted by The Sunday Times in 2021. Heriot’s is a modern and vibrant hive of co-educational learning, with 1,668 children from age 4- 18 filling its corridors, turrets and learning spaces to study the Scottish curriculum, learning to question, to respect rights, to develop confidence in their own voice and above all, leaving with a skill set to carve their place in the modern world.

Herioters today go on to become actors and writers, advocates and scientists, doctors, researchers,public servants and more, many continuing the legacy of its founder by supporting the school’s Foundation.

There are many advantages to teaching children Philosophy. It improves literacy and language skills, encourages children to develop articulacy and self-expression, nourishes concentration and thinking skills and invites young people to be effective in collaboration, group work and reasoning. The Learning Enhancement team delivers a programme which incorporates Philosophy, Resilience, Teambuilding and Mindfulness, setting up good habits for life.

Heriot’s has recently been awarded its third consecutive gold award for being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School. The rights of every child are central to school life, including promotion of rights respecting attitudes and language across year groups, from diversity, equality and inclusion lessons to pupil-led assemblies celebrating Diwali, Black History Month, Dyslexia awareness and more. Receiving the recent award from Independent School Magazine is a tremendous fillip for the school, according to Principal Gareth Warren: ‘’Third party recognition of what we do gives us encouragement that amongst 700 schools UK-wide, we are achieving something special. Today we look to the future to ensure the content of curriculum, the pupil experience we offer and the availability of a compelling extra curricular offer remain at the forefront of our agenda’’.

Package Description
When you join the team at Heriot’s, you become part of our community, where the contribution of every individual is i



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