Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

Summary

Are you an enthusiastic person looking for an opportunity to gain valuable learning-based work experience and the chance to undertake a qualification simultaneously? You will be working with excellent teachers, and school staff to help provide a nurturing environment for them to learn. If you want to kickstart your career in teaching apply now!

Annual wage: £11,648 a year
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Training course: Teaching assistant (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
35 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 18 November
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Support for pupils by:

Supervising and assisting individual or small groups of pupils in activities set by teachers or by the TA with teacher guidance
Supervise whole classes for short periods of time e.g. Parent Meetings
Developing pupils’ social skills by supporting children in groups
Implementing behaviour management policies in accordance with guidance provided by the school
Provide support for pupils inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate inactivities
Be aware of the early signs of bullying and disruptive behaviour and intervening as necessary
Helping the inclusion of all children, including those with EAL and supporting individual children who find it difficult to form relationships or successful access the curriculum
Helping to keep children on task by giving individual attention where necessary and helping them to become more successful learners
Accompanying classes on school trips where necessary
To build and maintain close and secure relationships with pupils
Attending to and ensuring the care, health and welfare of the children at all times, including the willingness to dress and undress, the toileting, and the cleaning of pupils, where necessary after appropriate training
To ensure that any pupils who have had an accident or feel unwell are referred to the Welfare Officer or paediatric first aider

Support for teachers by:

Evidencing pupil progress by using assessment
Working with outside agencies such as Educational Psychologists and Speech Therapists by liaising and supporting their work with pupils
Assisting pupils with physical needs and difficulties
To assist pupils with their personal hygiene needs
Helping implement lesson plans and making possible more ambitious learning activities
Providing feedback to teachers by observing pupil performance and behaviour and the effectiveness of classroom processes and organisation
Getting classroom materials ready for a session or lesson.
Liaising with Class teacher, sharing lesson plans, and contribute to IEPs and EHCP reviews as necessary

Where you’ll work

Chesterfield Primary School

Chesterfield Road

Enfield

EN3 6BG

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

FIRST RUNG LIMITED

Your training course

Teaching assistant (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Apply strategies to support and encourage the development of independent learners.

Adapt communication strategies for the audience and context.

Apply behaviour management strategies in line with organisational policy.

Adapt resources to support all learners.

Communicate with teachers to ensure clarity of the TA’s role.

Apply teaching strategies to deliver learning activities or interventions.

Build relationships with learners, teachers, other professionals and stakeholders.

Comply with legislation, guidance, and procedures for Prevent, safeguarding and health & safety.

Support the well-being and mental health of learners.

Observe, record, and report on learners in line with organisational procedures.

Apply methods of formative assessment.

Use up to date technology safely, to support learning.

Encourage safe use of technology by learners.

Adapt teaching strategies to support all learners (for example, scaffolding, open questioning).

Identify and respond to pastoral and academic behaviours in learners.

Provide feedback to learners.

Your training plan

Level 3 Teaching Assistant apprentice qualification.
Functional Skills in maths and English, if required.
Training will be one day a week at our Ponders End Centre (EN3).

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade C/4)
Maths (grade C/4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Patience

About this company

Our Vision: The Chesterfield journey will enable children to have lives that are full of choices and opportunities. We aim to overcome barriers to success and by having communication as a key driver, we ensure that our children learn unrivaled communication skills and have rich experiences of the wider world. Reading is at the heart of everything we do, as we believe expert readers will be able to open the doors to future knowledge and in turn unlock potential opportunities. Through our curriculum and extra-curricular activities, we hope to inspire our children to follow role models and have high aspirations for themselves. We build in a range of opportunities for our pupils to taste aspiration, to be inspired and to develop an understanding of who they are, who they might be, and exactly what the world has to offer.

https://www.chesterfieldschool.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

If the applicant is successful they can go into further training or employment.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

FIRST RUNG LIMITED

Sabreena Valydon

svalydon@firstrung.org.uk

07495 464797

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000263190.

Apply now

Closes on Thursday 7 November

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