Educational Support Assistant; SFSESA

Educational Support Assistant (SFSESA
0626)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Actual Salary £20,308.13

Closing date for applications: 26 June 2026, 11.00am

Shelley First School wishes to appoint a kind, caring and hardworking individual, with the skills and knowledge to fulfil the role of Educational Support Assistant, to join our committed school team, supporting groups of children with diverse needs and/or working in our Early Years Reception classroom. Depending on applications and skills, there may be one or two roles available, for a September 2026 term start.

Shelley First School is a highly regarded first school and you would be joining a warm and very inclusive school community where staff, parents and children all work together to strive for the very best, putting the children at the heart of all we do. At Shelley, we want our children to be enthusiastic explorers with a lifelong love of learning: confident, compassionate, respectful and creative learners who feel proud to belong to our school.

We are looking for support staff team members who share this same vision. The successful candidate will be a team player, hard-working and reliable, with a real desire to support our children, who are happy, kind, caring and a pleasure to work with. The successful candidate will also have excellent oracy skills in order to support rich back and forth conversation with our children and excellent initiative and enthusiasm – a real desire to get stuck in!

What we can offer you….

• Annual salary increments plus inflation linked increases.
• Automatic enrolment into a Teacher Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates.
• Enhanced occupational benefits (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave).
• Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to Health and Wellbeing services including, GP consultations, Private medical operations, Physiotherapy, Counselling and mindfulness, wellbeing clinics, nurse support services, chronic illness and cancer support, menopause support.
• Flexible family friendly policies from day one.
• Extensive CPD opportunities
• Funding of a wide range of accredited training courses and apprenticeships.
• A range of working patterns dependent upon the role.
• For employees on all year‑round contracts, a minimum of 28.5 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service) holiday entitlement.

If you would like to enquire more about the role please get in touch. Contact Liz McLoughlin, Headteacher at Shelley First School, on or

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are committed to inclusivity and will consider requests for flexible working including part time and job share arrangements, where the role allows.