Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
Ad Astra Infant School, Poole, Dorset, BH17 8AP2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 12:59am
Date listed
17 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,500.00 - £23,893.00 Annually (FTE) Salary Grade D (Point 5 - 6), Actual salary £5,420.40 to £5,511.05
Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) job summary
Salary Grade D (Point 5 - 6) £23,500 - £23,893 pro-rata
10 hours per week
Actual salary £5,420.40 to £5,511.05
1.00pm – 3.00pm Monday to Friday
Term time only including INSET days
Permanent – start date ASAP
The TEACH Poole Multi Academy Trust was formed in April 2015. All four of our wonderful schools are graded as good or outstanding schools by Ofsted. We are extremely popular, over-subscribed, forward-thinking schools with supportive staff and fantastic children.
We are looking to recruit a committed and enthusiastic individual with sound experience of working with children who have a variety of educational needs. The successful candidate will be employed by the Trust as a whole, and will work under the direction of the Pastoral Care Worker, to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
The successful candidate will:
- Work within the school as part of a team
- Work with either individuals or groups of children who are experiencing difficulties with emotional literacy or other aspects of school or home life
- Establish supportive, caring and secure relationships with children and parents / carers
- Develop knowledge of a range of learning and behavioural support needs, to plan, devise and implement programmes to help develop children’s emotional literacy skills and well-being
If you:
- Are an excellent communicator, with patience, calmness and good organisational skills
- Have experience of working with children with Special Educational Needs
- Are committed to developing children as independent learners
We can offer you:
- Fun, friendly and supportive staff who get on well together
- Rights’ Respecting pupils with excellent attitudes to learning and outstanding behaviour
- Superb opportunities and specialist training for career professional development within our Trust
- A fantastic induction programme
- Enviable support at all levels, and a proactive approach to staff well-being, work-life balance and care for each person as an individual, including the ability to take time off during term time
- Beautiful school grounds and welcoming learning environments
- Highly competitive rates of pay and excellent pension contributions by the Trust.
- Long-service reward scheme
Experience of working within a school in a role such as this is desirable, but not essential.
Closing date: Monday 6th May 2024
Interviews: Monday 13th May 2024
These schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Rigorous checks will be undertaken of the successful applicant’s background credentials including an enhanced DBS check. Suitability to work with children will be explored at interview.
Personal information provided by candidates will be securely filed electronically and password protected and paper copies locked in filing cabinets in a locked office. They will not be released to third parties outside the school without the consent of the person concerned, except where there is a legal requirement to do so. If the application does not proceed, the data will be securely disposed of after 6 months. Any concerns regarding data gathered in the recruitment process should be directed to the Data Manager – Hayley Hemmings at h.hemmings@teachpoole.com
Commitment to safeguarding
At Ad Astra Infant School, safeguarding is of the utmost importance. The school aims to help protect the children in its care by working consistently and appropriately with all agencies to reduce risk and promote the welfare of children.
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About Ad Astra Infant School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 7
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 266 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 7
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ad Astra Infant School website (opens in new tab)
Ad Astra is the smallest of the four schools within the TEACH Trust, and due to its cosy size, has a warm and nurturing atmosphere. Enwrapped with greenery, Ad Astra has the luxury of beautiful grounds, a large field, nature zones and newly refurbished play areas.
Its broad and balanced curriculum offers rich opportunities for children to discover and explore, as well as develop their skills and understanding across a breadth of subjects. Ad Astra has a diverse range of clubs on offer, both internal and external, which the children absolutely love to participate in. Its staff have very high expectations and do whatever it takes to enable Ad Astra's children to feel safe, achieve and succeed.
Children are at the centre of everything they do, and this has been recognised by UNICEF when the school earned Gold Level Rights' Respecting status in 2019. They are also a Gold certified anti-bullying school which also achieved the All Together Anti-Bullying award in 2021. Alongside this, the school embraces the values of growth mindset, which instils in all its children a confident 'can do' attitude and genuine love of learning.
What makes Ad Astra really special is its supportive close-knit community. The children, families and staff collaborate and work together in partnership to make Ad Astra a place where children can thrive.
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