At a Glance
- Tasks: Support teachers and help students with additional needs thrive in their learning.
- Company: Join a respected Multi Academy Trust dedicated to vulnerable pupils across Devon and Cornwall.
- Benefits: Enjoy training, development opportunities, pension scheme, and free parking.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive community focused on safeguarding and student well-being.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in young people's lives while gaining valuable experience.
- Qualifications: Passion for education, teamwork skills, and patience are essential.
The predicted salary is between 19350 - 23650 £ per year.
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an outstanding and committed Teaching Assistant who embodies our Trust values; candidates who have diverse experience, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.
Our ideal candidate will have excellent teamwork and communication skills, boundless patience and resilience and the ability and enthusiasm to make a difference with pupils who have a range of social, emotional and mental health needs.
For a full list of duties, please see the job description.
- What the school offers its staff
- Pension
- Training & Development
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free Parking
- Further details about the role
Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.
We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall.
The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education.
The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.
- Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
- Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
- Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others.
Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
- We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
- Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
- Commitment to safeguarding
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed.
The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and we may carry out an online check.
Wave Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for allapplicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 2020& 2023).
This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to bedisclosedto employers, and if they aredisclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should bedisclosedcan be found on the Ministry of Justice
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