Pupil Support Worker - Maternity Leave Cover - Temporary

LOCATION:
St Mary's Kenmure, Bishopbriggs, G64 2EH

SALARY: £27,772 p.a.

CONTRACT TYPE:
Temporary until July 2027 (Maternity Leave)

POSITION TYPE:
Part Time/Term Time (39 weeks)

HOURS: 30 hours per week

At St Mary's Kenmure, education changes lives.

We work with young people who have experienced significant barriers to learning and life. Within our secure care setting, our school provides a safe, consistent and nurturing environment where young people can re-engage with education, build positive relationships, develop their skills and begin to see a different future for themselves.

This is not a typical Support for Learning role. It is an opportunity to work in a highly relational, trauma-informed environment where small class sizes, strong relationships and close partnership between education, care and other professionals allow you to make a genuine difference to young people's lives.

St Mary's Kenmure is a secure childcare service supporting young people referred through the Courts and Children's Hearings System. Our five house units can each support up to six young people, with education playing a central role in their care and development.

Our school provides a broad and flexible curriculum for young people with a wide range of additional support needs, abilities and aspirations. We offer academic and vocational pathways alongside high-quality facilities, including a football pitch, gym, fitness suite and swimming pool.

Our approach is based on understanding each young person as an individual, recognising the barriers they may have experienced and providing the relationships, structure and support they need to engage successfully in learning.

We are looking for a skilled, caring and committed Pupil Support Worker to join our school team.

Working alongside our teachers and wider multidisciplinary team, you will play an important role in helping young people to access learning, develop independence and experience success within school.

You will:

• Provide targeted support to young people within classroom learning, helping them to engage with tasks and activities and access the curriculum.
• Build positive, trusting and respectful relationships with young people, maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
• Support learners who experience barriers to learning, including difficulties with communication, emotional regulation, concentration, engagement and social interaction.
• Work flexibly with teachers to adapt activities, resources and approaches to meet individual learning needs.
• Support young people during transitions between classes, activities and other parts of the school day, helping to provide consistency and predictability.
• Encourage young people to develop independence, confidence and ownership of their learning rather than creating dependency on adult support.
• Contribute to a calm, predictable and nurturing learning environment.
• Support positive behaviour and emotional regulation using agreed, relationship-based and trauma-informed approaches.
• Work collaboratively with teaching staff, care staff, health professionals and other colleagues to ensure that young people receive consistent support.
• Contribute to observations, recording and information-sharing about learners' progress, engagement and support needs.
• Undertake appropriate administrative duties associated with the effective running of the school, including maintaining records, preparing resources and supporting school systems and processes.
• Participate in meetings, professional discussions and training as required.
• Contribute positively to the wider life of the school and to continuous improvement.

You will be an important member of a small education team and will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and practice within an experienced, supportive and highly collaborative environment.

We are seeking someone who is:

• Warm, patient and emotionally intelligent
  , with the ability to build positive relationships with young people who may initially find it difficult to trust adults.
• Committed to inclusive practice and to ensuring that every young person can experience success in education.
• Calm and consistent
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