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Emotional Literacy Support Assistant

Emotional Literacy Support Assistant

Sale High School

Trafford

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Salary:
Band: 3 Pts 6-11 £21,968-£24,054 plus SEN Allowance £1401 (FTE). Actual Salary Point 6 - £18,623 plus £1,188 SEN Allowance
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
19 February 2023

Job overview

Sale High School are looking to appoint an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant to join our team to provide specialist support and enhance outcomes for our students.

This is a great opportunity for a talented individual to join our dynamic and positive team. We are looking for a suitably qualified person that is driven, committed and skilled in a range of tasks, who can work alongside colleagues to support students with their emotional wellbeing. Training in emotion coaching will be offered to the successful candidate. The role would also provide invaluable experience for those thinking about a career in educational psychology or counselling and who wish to gain experience in school. Similarly, it is also a great opportunity for a learning support assistant or member of pastoral staff looking to develop training and expertise further.

Principle Responsibilities: 

  • Provide 1:1 support to children who struggle with their social, emotional and mental
  • health. 
  • Provide in lesson support to students who are behaviourally challenging.

Key responsibilities: 

  • Plan and deliver individualised programmes of support to small groups of students to
  • develop social and friendship skills. 
  • Plan and implement high quality individual learning plans for children with behavioural
  • needs. 
  • Liaise with teachers and other support assistants about the needs and progress of
  • children receiving support. 
  • Provide high quality behavioural support at social times. 
  • Provide behaviourally challenging students with help in their management of stress,
  • grief and anger. 
  • Liaise with parents and care givers in line with school policy. 
  • Provide high quality support to the pastoral team. 
  • Work within own competencies and level of development. 
  • Promote good behaviour and attendance of school. 
  • To build effective relationships with all stakeholders in the school and wider
  • community. 
  • To attend and contribute to wider pastoral team meetings. 
  • To perform other duties as may be reasonably required within the general scope of the
  • role.

Be fully committed to supporting teaching and learning;

Be prepared to undertake appropriate CPD;

Be flexible and enthusiastic.

Full details can be found in the job description and person specification.

Applicants should apply using appropriate application form via TES including a covering letter to demonstrate how their skills and experience match the person specification for the post.

Closing date: Thursday 26th January 2023

Interviews: TBC 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undertake a criminal records check via the DBS (Disclosure and Barring service)

Applications are welcomed from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, ethnic origin, disability or sexuality.







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About Sale High School

Sale High School is an 11-16 mixed high school in the selective borough of Trafford. The school is focussed on being the school of choice for the local community. We want our local community to think long and hard about sending their children elsewhere in the borough, or into the selective system. We are committed to being the best type of comprehensive school, where students from a range of different backgrounds gain from being part of a diverse community, where everyone, no matter what their abilities, can aspire and achieve. The school is extremely popular and oversubscribed, having grown from having 540 on roll in September 2017 to having 1050 on roll in September 2021.

We were rated by Ofsted as ‘good’ in our inspection of 2019.

Behaviour for learning is excellent: students are engaged and hard working. The school community is proud of itself and its achievements with an overwhelming majority of staff (99%), saying they were proud of the school (November 2021 survey.

We place a strong emphasis on continuing professional development and work hard to grow and develop staff through training opportunities. We are proud to be a ‘teaching and learning’ school with a strong emphasis placed on continuing development through our teaching and learning hub groups.

The school is characterised by its focus on three simple priorities: firstly, excellent outcomes for all. We know that outcomes matter and for our disadvantaged students they matter very much indeed.  Secondly, that people really matter and we should treat everyone in our community with humanity and respect. It is essential that we value each other, staff and students, in order that all members of our community feel able to flourish and succeed. Lastly, we value learning. We espouse a growth mind-set, something which is particularly important in our context as a high school in a selective authority.

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