ELSA / Pastoral Lead

Eastwick Infant School, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT23 3PP

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2025

• Closing date

  25 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  14 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,332.00 - £26,471.00 Annually (FTE) Pro-rata £18,805 to £20,459pa plus RA3d (£2,586pa FTE)

ELSA / Pastoral Lead job summary

Working Monday to Friday 8:30am to 3:30pm

Salary Grade P4 plus RA3d for Pastoral Lead responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate, dedicated, and motivated individual to join the team to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties to enable them to effectively access the curriculum.

Support teachers by delivering and adapting educational programs for pupils, including those with special needs. Provide specialised assistance, encourage independence, and attend to pupils' personal and physical care needs.

Key Responsibilities (duties include but are not limited to):

• Support with caseload of the Pastoral Team.
• Delivering ELSA intervention and measuring the impact against outcomes.
• To deliver pastoral interventions related to need of pupils.
• To provide an effective safe place for pupils to raise any concerns.
• To actively contribute to the monitoring and identification of high needs social, emotional and mental health pupils, the co-ordination of a programme of support.
• To liaise with senior leaders in order to signpost parents/carers to external agencies as required.
• To liaise with outside agencies and parents in order to fully support pupils with SMEH needs; this will include contacting and liaising closely with outside agencies, attending meetings and developing school practice in the light of external changes and demands.
• To work closely with the year teams, SEN team on identification of students who due to SEMH neds may not make adequate progress; this will include transition work from year 6 to 7.
• Uphold school values, health and safety, and equality standards.

Qualifications and Skills:

• GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent) with basic literacy and numeracy skills.
• Ability to work towards Level 2 vocational qualifications or demonstrate specialist skills.
• Competence with IT tools, strong communication, and organisational skills.
• Physical ability to handle manual tasks and work collaboratively.

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Eastwick Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 238 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Eastwick Infant School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/eastwick-infant-school (opens in new tab)

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