Location:
St John's RC Academy (Primary Dept), North Inch Community Campus, Gowans Terrace, Perth, PH1 5BF
Salary:
£18,847 - £20,505 per year
Hours:
27.5 hours per week
We currently have the following opportunity:
Enhanced Pupil Support Assistant, Intensive Support Provision - PKC13967
£18,847 - £20,505 (27.5 Hours per week, Term-time only)
St. John's RC Academy Primary, Perth
We are looking for a motivated and skilled pupil support assistant, who will ideally have current experience in supporting children whose complex social and emotional needs are a barrier to their engagement in learning at St Johns RC Academy Intensive Support Provision (ISP).
As an Enhanced PSA, you will play a pivotal role in the daily lives of our pupils. Your responsibilities will go beyond standard classroom support, focusing on tailored interventions and personal care.
Key Accountabilities:
- Direct Pupil Support: Facilitate learning through reading, scribing, and using symbol timetables.
- Specialised Care: Carry out intimate care routines, assist with eating/drinking, and perform moving and handling tasks (including CALM interventions).
- Physical & Development Programs: Lead individual programmes such as physio exercises, motor skills, and mobility training.
- Positive Environment: Implement behaviour management programmes and support Individual Education Plan (IEP) targets.
- Technology & Resources: Prepare materials using Boardmaker or TEACCH and support the use of ICT tools like Clicker and sensory programmes.
- Community & Transition: Accompany pupils to social events, transition settings, and independent living activities.
Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for this post.
Applicants should have:
- A warm and nurturing approach with children.
- Experience of working with primary aged children in school.
- Some understanding of how early childhood trauma can impact on a child’s development.
- The ability to form positive relationships with children who are hard to reach and disengaged with learning.
- A child-centred approach.
- The skills to establish firm boundaries without being rigid.
- Some understanding of the importance of play for children of all ages.
- The ability to self-regulate during times when children present with distressed and dysregulated behaviour.
- Some understanding of restorative approaches to problems arising and the ability to model these for the children.
- The ability to work as part of a small team but also have the confidence to work on their own.
- A desire to learn and further develop their knowledge and skills.
Our values and behaviours influence our work and support us in the delivery of our key priorities. In your application, and should you be invited to interview, you will be asked to describe situations that support the criteria required in the role and which also demonstrate our values and behaviours.
