Classroom Assistant ELSA

Role: Classroom Assistant

Location: Horley

Contract Type: Full Time

Contract Term: Permanent

Start Date: Jan 2026

Join this dynamic team in Horleyas a Classroom Assistant. Your role will involve supporting classroom activities, helping students with special educational needs, and assisting with administrative tasks. If you're a team player with a can-do attitude, this role is for you! Apply now!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide in-class support to enable students to access and engage with learning, adapting approaches in response to their individual needs and ILP targets
• Promote a calm, regulated learning environment by proactively recognising signs of dysregulation and using co-regulation strategies
• Build trusting, consistent relationships with students, grounded in empathy, curiosity and emotional safety, in line with trauma-informed principles such as PACE and the Zones of Regulation
• Support students' emotional development and help them develop self-regulation, resilience, and positive learning behaviours
• Deliver targeted 1:1 or small group interventions as directed by teaching staff or pastoral leaders, focusing on academic reinforcement, emotional literacy, or social development

Qualifications and Experience:

• Proven experience and/or qualification as an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) is desired but we welcome applications from teaching assistants who are willing to complete additional training to empower them to fully provide the high quality support that we aim to offer to our students
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures
• Prior experience as a Teaching Assistant (or similar role) in a primary or secondary school setting

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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