Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
Community & Hospital Education Service Ap Academy, Truro, TR1 3AS15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 December 2025
Closing date
7 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours 32.5 per week - 52 week per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,316 - £30,145
Pay scale
- £23,993 - £26,479
Hourly rate
- NJC7 to NJC13
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an outstanding and committed Higher Level 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 below
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.
About the Academy
Sowenna Education provides a safe and nurturing environment steeped in a culture of acceptance, curiosity, empathy and playfulness. Young people, families and staff can expect to feel listened to and have their needs validated and understood. Through trusting relationships the highest quality, evidence based care will aim to promote resilience, inclusion and confidence, to support young people to go on to live their best lives.
We provide a creative, innovative and high quality, fully personalised, bespoke educational package that meets the needs of the individual. Education is developed in partnership with the clinical team in the first instance and then with the young person and their School or College.
Sowenna Education has been developed in coordination with the National Association for Hospital Education. The aims of which are: To secure outstanding standards of education for children and young people. To actively promote children and young people’s entitlement to high quality educational opportunities. To raise the standards of education for children and young people who are temporarily or permanently disadvantaged by illness or other medical or mental health condition.
Sowenna (Bodmin) - Wave MAT
What the school offers its staff
Health & Wellbeing
Pension
Training & Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free Parking
Flexible working opportunities
Who We Are
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.
We Aim To
- 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.
- Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.
Further information about the job
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. An online check may be carried out.
Applying for the job
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About Community & Hospital Education Service Ap Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 16
- School size
- 9 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@waveedu.org
CHES Academy is a medical provision academy that provide education for children and young people with complex medical and/or mental health needs which prevent them from attending school. We pride ourselves in providing pupils with access to high quality education, ensuring they are thoroughly prepared for the next stage in their learning journey. Personalisation is the cornerstone of our pedagogy; the curriculum is bespoke and programmes are crafted to meet individual needs which demands a totally flexible and adaptable approach to teaching and learning from all involved.
Our medical provisions provide personalised education through a combination of centre teaching, individual teaching and online learning. CHES has three teaching centres in Cornwall; Glynn House our school base in Truro; our Hospital School room in the Royal Cornwall Hospital and our Education Unit within Sowenna, the adolescent Tier 4 unit in Bodmin.
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