Teacher of Support for Learning (Integrated Support Faculty/Enhanced Support Provision) - Gracemount High School

Job Description

Children, Education & Justice Services

Temporary Teacher of Support for Learning for Integrated Support Faculty/Enhanced Support Provision - fixed term until 19/12/2025
Gracemount High School

Salary: £33,594 - £50,589 (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 17.5 per week

Gracemount High School is a non-denominational secondary school with a roll of just over 640 pupils which serves the community of Southeast Edinburgh. The school was founded in 1959 as a junior secondary school and since the late 1960s has been a fully comprehensive six-year high school.

Gracemount High School was built under PPP and opened in 2003. The school’s leadership team comprise the Head Teacher, three Depute Head Teachers, a Senior Development Officer and a Business Manager. We have a complement of 50 teaching staff and 20 support staff.

We are a successful and thriving school community that serves a socially diverse community. Over 70% of our students live in quintile 1 and 2 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. We are proud of every one of our students and our staff are skilled, conscientious, and caring.

We are looking for a Teacher to join our Integrated Support Faculty within Gracemount High School to ensure high quality teaching and learning with the ultimate aim of maximising attainment and achievement for all pupils. S/he will work in Integrated Support Faculty as part of our Enhanced Support Provision. S/he will be expected to be forward thinking and innovative in terms of delivering the most appropriate courses to all levels of ability at all stages.

The school is firmly committed to raising attainment and promoting achievement. This is a whole school priority in the improvement plan and reflects local CEC and national priorities. The successful candidate will work with a range of pupils with a focus on our pupils with complex additional support needs. For further information on our school please visit our website at https://www.gracemounthighschool.co.uk

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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