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Expected start date
9 June 2021
Application deadline
21 April 2021 at 11:59 pm
Date listed
24 March 2021
Job details
- Working pattern
- Part-time only
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Salary
- Grade F, £20,903 rising to a maximum of £22,183 per annum pro rata. Actual annual salary of £15,643.28 rising to a maximum of £16,601.20 per annum
Job summary
The Role: We are looking for Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA’s) to work 1:1 with a pupils, in small groups and to deliver personalised autism friendly emotional literacy and social skills interventions.
The Person: The position of ELSA is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and compassionate individual who wants to make a difference in the lives of our learners with autism. Key skills we are looking for:
• To have a good knowledge and understanding of autism and social communication needs and appropriate strategies to support pupils with this need. E.g. TEACCH
• To have knowledge and understanding of social, emotional & mental health needs and cognitive needs, that affect children and young people’s development.
• Excellent listening skills
• An ability to build strong, trusting relationships
• To be resilient and able to take regular responsibility for agreed activities
• Promote and support the inclusion of all pupils in the learning and social skills activities
• To use positive and personalised anxiety management and emotional regulation strategies
• To be a trained ELSA or have a willingness to complete the course within 12 months of being in post.
Supporting documents
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School overview
- School type
- Academy
- Education phase
- School size
- 195 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Springfields Academy website (opens in a new window)
- Contact email
- rbarnes@springfields.wilts.sch.uk
- Contact phone number
- 01249 814125
About The Springfields Academy
School Background: The Springfields Academy is an academy over two sites in Calne and Salisbury. This includes a residential provision at our Calne academy. We aspire to build safe independent lives for autistic young people through support, understanding and enablement. Additionally, we are a ‘National Autistic Society Accredited Provision’ with over 90% of the current cohort having a diagnosis of Autism. All students have the potential to access a primary/secondary curriculum.
We are an acknowledged centre of excellence for Autism; we are highly reflective in our practices, and are continually working to improve our provision and practices. We provide a personalised curriculum journey that enables leaners with a diagnosis of autism to develop skills in areas of need and to overcome their barriers to learning. The drive to build ‘safe Independent lives’ shapes this curriculum and everything else that we do. The Academy has a PAN of 190.
Trust Background: Reach South is a young and developing Trust which operates across the South West of England with the aim of delivering all through 3-19 education. We operate 14 academies in Plymouth, Bournemouth, Dorset and Wiltshire. We are building this Trust on a clear set of values, behaviours and curriculum principles. At the heart of those values and principles is a belief in our young people and a determination to support them to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become the successful citizens for today and all of their tomorrows.
Our core business is delivering exceptional education for children and young people with a mission to help all pupils aspire to achieve beyond the expectations that others put on them. We do this through the development of a talented and committed workforce. In order to deliver exceptional opportunities for learning, we need highly motivated staff across all parts of the organisation.
Those we recruit are able to demonstrate that they share our values, are highly motivated to work with colleagues, within and beyond their school, to continuously develop their skills and pursue professional excellence.
School location
Curzon Street, Calne, Wiltshire, SN11 0DSGet a job alert for when similar jobs are listed
