Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

Meadowdale Primary School, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7XQ

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  5th January 2025

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £3,872.71 Annually (Actual) Grade 8

Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) job summary

Fixed, part time until 9th July 2026

Working Pattern: 6 hours. 1 day per week 8.45 - 3.15am.

Term time only, 38 weeks a year.

Grade 8, £ 3,872.71 (Actual)

Role:

• To support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties to enable them to effectively access the curriculum.
• To support and encourage a learning environment throughout the school which allows children to acquire and develop emotional literacy skills.
• To support children to make progress in learning through the delivery of specific interventions.

In return for your skills and experience, we provide a supportive and friendly environment to enable you to develop and progress. We offer all staff access to an excellent pension (LGPS), staff development opportunities, free onsite parking, a bike to work scheme and a wonderful staff wellbeing package.

Learn Academies Trust is committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and creating a truly inclusive Trust. We are determined to ensure all our stakeholders flourish and thrive. We aim to foster a culture where all are valued and respected. We acknowledge and celebrate all protected characteristics. We endeavour to remove all barriers to learning and participation. Our ED&I Policy and objectives are integral to all that we do.

Our vision for ED&I is simple, we aim to create an environment where everyone has a seat at the table, where everyone has a voice and where everyone belongs. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references (these will be requested if you are shortlisted) and successful completion of vetting.

Learn Academies Trust is a Disability Confident employer and is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Meadowdale Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 383 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Meadowdale Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/meadowdale-primary-school

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