Teaching Assistants x 2 (SEHM Provision)
North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1LZ9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: 32 Hours per week - Term-Time only - Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404 - £25,207
Actual salary
- £17,997 - £18,589
Pay scale
- NJC 4 - 6
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint 2outstanding and committed Teaching Assistants to join a new SEMH provision at North Cornwall Academy. We are looking for candidates whoembodyour Trust values,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.
What the school offers its staff
Health & Wellbeing
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.
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.
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 online check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
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About North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 37 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@waveedu.org
North Cornwall Academy is located in Bodmin. We work closely with all of the secondary and primary schools within our partnership to ensure the needs of those most vulnerable pupils are met. Our curriculum is tailored to meet the needs of our pupils and staff work extremely hard to ensure pupils are given every opportunity to succeed and aspire. We work closely with a diverse range of outside agencies both statutory and voluntary so that our young people can access the support and guidance they need. The staff are very hardworking and creative and always go the extra mile with the young people on roll.
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