ELSA Bank staff for local schools - Leicester

Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

Temp/Bank

Fullor part-time in Leicester City

ASAP start

We are seeking to recruit a further Emotional Literacy Support Assistant to work within our agency to support expanding Pastoral teams in Leicester City.

The role will entail working closely with the Pastoral team to ensure student's social, emotional and mental health needs are supported to enable them to access their learning. You will work with individual and small groups of students focussing on areas such as friendships, resilience, loss and bereavement, anger management and stress. Working as a front line member of the Pastoral team you will need to have the skills and resilience to support students who may be experiencing difficulties in accessing their learning and managing their behaviour.

The successful candidate will be able to use de-escalation techniques to maintain and manage positive relationships.

Candidates with suitable experience, motivation and commitment have the opportunity to apply for the role.

Are you:

* Positive and passionate about working with students with learning disabilities

* A team player who can work as part of the multi-disciplinary team

* A reflective practitioner

* Able to motivate and lead by example

* Resilient and solution focused If you are,

then we can offer:

* A selection of local placements with a nurturing group of staff, who are committed to achieving high standards for our students

* A strong ethos and collaborative working

* Dedicated consultant to support your work with our agency

* flexible working patterns in school hours

For more information, please get in touch - we would love to hear from you.

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At Career Teachers we are fully compliant with Agency Worker Regulations, ensuring you receive equal treatment for pay and conditions after a 12 week qualifying period. Please ask for further details.

All quoted rates are inclusive of 12.07% holiday pay.

Important Notice: In order for you to be successful in applying for the above position you should be eligible to work in the UK, or hold a relevant work visa. Safeguarding, quality and integrity are at the heart of what we do. During the application process you are required to:

- Attend an interview in person;

- Give details for us to complete Reference checks;

- Provide an Enhanced DBS disclosure

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within education. We have a policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion, we encourage you to please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you. Career Teachers is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.