WELLBEING SUPPORT ASSISTANT

ESMS: Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job description

Wellbeing Support Assistant

Job Reference: schooltalent/TP/11692/1794

Number Of Positions: 1

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, Term Time

Salary: £24614 - £24614

Working Hours: 36.25

Location: Edinburgh

Closing Date: 13/05/2025

Department: Learning Support

Region / Division: ESMS

Job Role: Operational/Professional Services

The Role

Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools are currently recruiting for a Wellbeing Support Assistant to join the Schools on a permanent basis. The position is available from 18 August 2025 (subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks). The role is term-time, full-time working 37.5 hours per week with a salary of £24,614. The role is based across both the Ravelston and Queensferry Road sites.

The Wellbeing Support Assistant provides reactive and planned support to specific children or groups with pastoral needs across the Junior, Middle and Upper School, facilitating their wellbeing and integration into school activities.

The successful candidate will have experience working with children and young people in a school setting.

Eligibility:

ESMS is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. The successful candidate will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right work in the UK.

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:

In order to apply for the position, applicants must visit https://jobsearch.esms.org.uk/ to submit their application form.

Any enquiries about this position should be directed to the ESMS Recruitment Team at [e-mail].

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 13 May 2025. We anticipate interviews will be held week commencing 19 May 2025.

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:

1. We offer an outstanding, well-rounded education, to a diverse group of children.
2. 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.
3. We provide an unrivalled range of activities outside the classroom, enabling our children to discover and develop their natural talents.
4. We inspire children to aim high and achieve strong academic results.
5. We give children every opportunity to seize and embrace every challenge that life throws at them.
6. Our teachers inspire innovative thinkers with a love of learning that will last a lifetime.
7. Our children develop the confidence to use their voices.
8. Our five values embed character, inspiring children to develop good hearts, make good decisions and improve the world around them.

Attached Documents:

• Wellbeing Support Assistant.pdf