ELSA Teaching Assistant Level 3 at St Clement's & St John's CE Infant School

ELSA Teaching Assistant Level 3

St Clement’s & St John’s CE Infant School

Grade: Grade 4 SCP 6-9 (£13.47 – £14.13 per hour)

Salary: £18,795 - £20,245 pro-rata per annum

Hours of work: 31.25 hours per week, Monday-Friday, 39 weeks a year

Starting 1 September 2026

The school would support someone undertaking an ELSA apprenticeship course for this role

The school is seeking to appoint someone to provide targeted emotional literacy support to pupils through the delivery of ELSA interventions, alongside contributing to high-quality teaching and learning as a Teaching Assistant Level 3. The role supports pupils’ social, emotional and mental health (SEMH), enabling them to access learning and achieve their full potential. If you have the ability to motivate and encourage children, are enthusiastic, responsible and enjoy working with children, please get in touch! 

St Clement’s & St John’s CE Infant School is a wonderful school set in Boscombe in the sunny town of Bournemouth. St Clement's and St John's CE Infant School feels like a large family and everyone here plays an important role in developing our wonderful young people. The schools are part of Coastal Learning Partnership Multi Academy Trust; a vibrant, collaborative Trust of twenty schools working together around shared goals, values and aspirations.

Coastal Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential elements of the person specification and will be subject to pre-employment checks including a health check, and Enhanced DBS check, Child Barred List check and satisfactory references. We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern. Applicants are advised that it is an offense to apply for the role if they are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

CLP is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants who meet the person specification will receive equal consideration for employment.  We value the fact that our schools are very different, as are our colleagues within them.  Our culture is one in which colleagues serve and inspire each other in the spirit of professional generosity; colleagues are empowered to be themselves and to be their best.  At CLP, everyone is welcome and encouraged to achieve and be heard.