St Mary's CE Primary School - Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Swanley, BR8 7BU
Closes in 20 days (Friday 28 February at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 January 2025
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Summary
St Mary’s is a small school with attached Nursery classes, located in the St Mary’s ward of Swanley. Our school is supported by a stable, experienced, and dedicated staff and governing body. Visitors frequently commend our children’s exceptional behaviour, conduct, and accomplishments. We welcome pupils aged 2 to 11.
- Wage
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£11,648 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
• In April 2025, the Apprenticeship salary will increase to £7.55 an hour • Automatic pay increase after one year on programme for 19+ year olds
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8 am till 4 pm with a 1 hour lunch break.
35 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 3 March
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
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
- To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children in our Reception class.
- To give support to teaching staff within our Reception class.
- To implement the daily routine in our Reception class.
- Assist with the teaching of Reception pupils. This may involve listening to children’s reading; helping with language development, mathematics and other areas of learning as well as working with individual children or small groups, as directed by the teacher.
- Promote pupils’ social and emotional development and contribute to the health and well-being of pupils.
- Contribute to the management of pupils’ behaviour.
- Assist pupils with their personal care to ensure they follow a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness.
- Assist in ensuring pupils have correct letters and information in their bags to take home to parents.
- Assist in changing and refreshing wall displays, when required by the teacher.
- Assist with cleaning up after lessons, washing equipment (paint pots, brushes, toys, etc), tables and chairs.
- Undertake general tasks, including filing, photocopying, requisitions, and general administrative tasks.
- Assist teaching staff in any other department, if required.
- Attending training and development courses, when required.
- Be aware of and support differences and ensure equal opportunities for all.
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the Schools.
- Develop constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals.
- Recognise your own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others.
Health and Safety:
- To comply with Health, Safety, and Hygiene Regulations as laid down within the Schools’ policies.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of all information belonging to the School. It is important, and a condition of employment, that all information of any kind is treated as confidential and not disclosed or used other than as authorised and in the proper performance of the School's business.
- Take responsibility for their professional development, continually keep updated and contribute to the Schools as a learning organisation.
- To contribute to the Health and Safety of pupils and other staff by following Health and Safety regulations and DSE legislation.
- Comply with the policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
Personal attributes:
- Professional and flexible approach to work.
- Good organisational, record-keeping and planning skills.
- Well motivated & able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Able to communicate effectively with children, colleagues and parents/carers.
- Ability to use own initiative and judgement to solve problems.
- Able to meet the physical demands of the post.
- Flexibility to work outside of normal working hours on occasion, for meetings, training, events etc.
- Calmness, efficiency, and the ability to work under pressure.
- Awareness of the nature of St Mary's CE (VA) Primary School and be prepared to commit to its all-round ethos.
- A commitment to ongoing personal and professional development where necessary.
- Positive and can-do attitude.
Where you’ll work
St. Marys Road
Swanley
BR8 7BU
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
LET ME PLAY 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.
- 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
- The successful candidate will obtain a Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship standard qualification
More training information
Each apprentice will have their own dedicated tutor who will conduct monthly remote tutorials and reviews, providing continuous support throughout the apprenticeship program. Depending on the apprentice’s needs, the frequency of these sessions may vary.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4)
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths (grade Grade 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Caring
- Reliable
- Flexible
Other requirements
Pre-employment checks. Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment, the company completes digitalised right-to-work checks and DBS applications via an external provider - 'Matrix Screening'. The company also completes an internal online social media search, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
About this company
Inspire ATA is an official Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, licenced by the Department for Education. Currently ranked 1st in the Rate My Apprenticeship Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK Award 2024-2025. Inspire ATA specialises in creating apprenticeship opportunities, where we recruit and employ the apprentice on behalf of our host clients, enabling us to offer additional support and a better experience for both the apprentice and the client as the experts in the industry. We arrange the most suitable and appropriate apprenticeship training from one of our partnered training providers. If you are successful in securing an apprenticeship with Inspire ATA, it is important to understand that Inspire ATA will be your employer and the apprenticeship placement will be a separate organisation that simply hosts you as an apprentice. As a Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, Inspire ATA performs an important role in developing the UK labour market and it is our responsibility to ensure that talent is recognised, developed, and matched with business needs, whatever the background of the individual, irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, religion or belief, relationship orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity and gender reassignment. We are proud of the diverse nature of our business and work with clients to ensure that all candidates are treated with courtesy and respect.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential full-time employment for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Katie Munn
Katie@inspire-ata.co.uk
0203 836 4425
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000297396.
Apply now
Closes in 20 days (Friday 28 February at 11:59pm)
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