Junior School Assistant

The Role

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.

To learn more about this role, please access the job description provided.

**Eligibility**

**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**

**About ESMS**

Welcome to the ESMS, a vibrant, family of independent schools, for 3-18 year olds, in the heart of Edinburgh. We offer a co-educational nursery and junior school, single-sex but closely twinned secondary education and a co-educational sixth form. At the ESMS family of schools we pride ourselves on our holistic approach to education which means that we place as much emphasis on opportunities and activities outside of the classroom as we do on what happens in class. We offer over 300 clubs and societies as well as wide-ranging opportunities in sport, music and drama, outdoor education, trips and community involvement, all with the intention of helping your child discover their talents, learn or explore something new, have fun and make new friends.

**Our Vision **is to empower learners within our community through innovative approaches and transformative experiences, cultivating creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. Through a dynamic education and a culture of determination, we inspire students to dream big, set ambitious goals, and surpass their own expectations, ensuring every child has the opportunity to excel and achieve a fulfilling, successful life, whatever path they choose.

**Our Mission** is to develop resilient, accomplished, and values-driven students equipped with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to lead full, happy lives and shape a better world.

**Aims**
- We offer an outstanding, well-rounded education, to a diverse group of children
- We take time to build strong relationships and to help our children feel happy, safe and secure so that they thrive emotionally and socially and academically
- We provide an unrivalled range of activities outside the classroom, enabling our children to discover and develop their natural talents
- We inspire children to aim high and achieve strong academic results
- We give children every opportunity to seize and embrace every challenge that life throws at them
- Our teachers inspire innovative thinkers with a love of learning that will last a lifetime
- Our children develop the confidence to use their voices
- Our five values embed character, inspiring children to develop good hearts, make good decisions and improve the world around them.