Early Years Teaching Assistant Apprentice

Bridgtown Primary School

Cannock (WS11 0AZ)

Closes in 11 days (Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 11 April 2025

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Summary

We are seeking an innovative and hardworking individual to work within Early Years. This will include support in mainstream classrooms, working with small groups of children and providing care over the lunchtime period.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Apprentice Minimum wage as 1st April 2025 £7.55 per hour for first 12 months. National Minimum Wage for age for the remainder of the apprenticeship if the learner is 19+.

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 8.30am - 4.30pm. Friday, 8.30am - 4.00pm. This includes 30 minutes of unpaid lunch.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 9 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

  • Supporting pupils in the classroom to support and move their learning on
  • Provide structured support in accordance with specific work programmes
  • To contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are promoted for pupils
  • Supporting the pupils by providing pastoral support within the school environment
  • Assist children in matters of personal needs and their general health including first aid and welfare matters
  • Provide general support to pupils ensuring their safety
  • Accompanying teaching staff and pupil on visits and trips out of school
  • Support the teacher in the development and implementation of individual education/behaviour plans
  • Assist the teacher with the planning of learning activities
  • Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers and pupils achievement, progress, and problems
  • Supporting the curriculum
  • Supporting the school by promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children you are responsible for
  • Ensuring all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop

Where you’ll work

North Street
Cannock
WS11 0AZ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents
  • Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
  • Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
  • Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
  • Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
  • Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
  • Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
  • Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
  • Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
  • Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
  • Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
  • Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
  • Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
  • Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
  • Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
  • Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
  • Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
  • Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
  • Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
  • Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
  • Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
  • Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
  • Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
  • Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
  • Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
  • Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
  • Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
  • Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
  • Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
  • Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
  • Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
  • Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
  • Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
  • Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
  • Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
  • Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
  • Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
  • Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
  • Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.

Your training plan

  • Level 3 Early Years Educator
  • Functional Skills, if required

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4 and above)
  • ICT (grade 4 and above)
  • Mathematics (grade 4 and above)

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
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

A clear DBS check will be essential within this role. Candidates will be required to attend day release at either Cannock or Tamworth Campus. Applicants must be aware that they will be required to attend an Information Advice and Guidance session at one of our Campuses (Tamworth, Lichfield, Cannock Chase Skills and Innovation Centre, or Rodbaston) in order to progress further in this vacancy. During the session, candidates must complete baseline assessments and will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding the qualification. For the interview, please bring a reading book suitable for Nursery pupils as you will be expected to read to a group of Nursery children. This will be followed by an informal chat.

About this company

At Bridgtown we acknowledge the uniqueness of all children, their ability to be creative and challenged, to celebrate their diversity, interests, cultures, and talents. We have high expectations and challenge them to be confident, happy and reach their full potential. We aim to provide a secure, happy and welcoming learning environment that is inclusive of all pupils. We encourage children and their parents to take part, to be active, to take responsibility and contribute to the school community and work in partnership with us to help the children to achieve their goals. We believe in doing our best and having the courage to take risks and celebrate our success which will enable us to become successful and confident learners. We seek to meet our aims with a "Bridgtown Smile". This reflects our positive attitude to life, learning and relationships and is an important part of the ethos of the school. We see our school reflecting a society where the individuals, whatever their age or status act responsibly towards each other, praise each other, care for each other and act with a high degree of individual responsibility. We see our school as an inclusive community in which all members are valued.

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After this apprenticeship

  • It is hoped that the successful candidate will join the team on a longer-term basis once the apprenticeship has been completed

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED

PTP Training

ptprecruits@ptp-training.co.uk

01922 651100

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315222.

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Closes in 11 days (Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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