Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

Care to Join Us?

We are seeking to appoint passionate, dedicated, and skilled Emotional Literacy Support Assistants to join our team on a full-time, term-time only basis (38 weeks per year). You will support the delivery of emotional literacy provision at Southampton College.

We offer great benefits including:

• Generous employer pension contribution

• Regular training and development

• Access to a health care plan

• Learning and development opportunities. 

Role and Responsibilities: 

• Work with individuals or groups of young people with Education and Healthcare Plans and SEND, who are experiencing difficulties with emotional literacy or other aspects of college or home life

• Establish supportive, caring and secure relationships with young people, and to be available to offer individual support and someone for a young person to talk to

• Develop knowledge of a range of learning and behavioural support needs and to plan, devise and implement appropriate programmes to help develop young people's emotional literacy skills and emotional wellbeing