3 x Higher Level Teaching Assistant Post at Newhaven School

Our Vision:

Newhaven School works hard to be a caring, trauma informed community where young people are kept safe, supported as individuals, taught the skills they need and challenged to become successful adults with dreams to realise.

Aims: How we work to achieve our vision: 

Trust: our students often struggle to trust adults due to traumatic experiences in their lives and difficulties with the education system where things have gone wrong. We aim to rebuild this trust through trauma, neurodivergence and equity informed practice, making everyone feel safe, stress reduction, psychological thinking, trusted adults and student voice. 

Restore: we recognise that things go wrong for everyone and our success is measured by how we deal with this. Through our curriculum and behaviour and relationships policy in particular, we aim to give our students the skills they need to restore and resolve things when they go wrong. We have a particular focus on social communication skills and emotional regulation. 

Achieve: like all schools we aim for our students to achieve as highly as possible. For us, this means in traditional exams and courses but also life skills and experiences that will support them in moving on to education, training and employment and developing and maintaining rich relationships through their lives. 

We are seeking to appoint 3 higher level teaching assistants to join our team in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.  

Newhaven Gardens Pupil Referral Unit - Engagement Support HLTA

Newhaven Gardens is a pupil referral unit for KS3 and KS4 students who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion from a mainstream school 

Newhaven King’s Park - Wellbeing Support HLTA

Newhaven King’s Park Campus is a specialist provision for Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 pupils with a diagnosis of autism, and who benefit from a therapeutic environment.  

Newhaven Gardens Nest – Engagement Support HLTA.

Newhaven Nest is a specialist provision for KS3 and 4 pupils who are unable to attend mainstream school because of their severe and enduring mental health difficulties. 

You will have the skills, ability and initiative to engage with our highly complex cohort, and the resilience to deal with students who often have complex needs. You will ideally have experience supporting people with autism, ADHD and/or poor mental health, and have excellent safeguarding knowledge and skills. An outstanding candidate will have a ‘can do‘ attitude and the resilience to work with our cohort of engaging, bright, energetic young people, alongside a willingness to develop your skills and knowledge.  

Newhaven was granted a “Trauma Informed School” status, in recognition of how we support children and teenagers who suffer with trauma or mental health problems and whose troubled behaviour acts as a barrier to learning. 

We are looking for:

• Specialist skills/training/experience to support our students
• Commitment to working holistically with others to support students
• An excellent communicator who works well both in a team and independently
• Exceptional safeguarding knowledge and experience
• A proven record of good results with students with a range of learning and support needs
• Commitment to supporting equality, diversity and inclusion at Newhaven
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We will also provide extensive training for those who show they have the potential to meet these requirements but maybe aren’t quite there yet.