Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

BETTWS LIFEHOUSE LTD

ENGLAND, SY3 9AH

Closes in 15 days (Monday 10 March at 11:59pm)

Posted on 10 February 2025

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Summary

Job Summary A Teaching Assistant apprenticeship prepares experienced teaching assistants to support students with a range of needs. The apprenticeship provides the knowledge, skills, and behaviours (KSBs) needed to excel in this role.

Wage
£15,925 a year

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The wage advertise depends on experience. Those with very little experience will be offered a Level 3 at £7.55 per hour for the first year. Those with experience working as a Teaching Assistant for 1 year or more will be offered £8.75 per hour.

Training course
Specialist teaching assistant (level 5)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 4.00pm. Term Time Only.

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Saturday 15 March

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

  • Helping students with their learning
  • Running activities with small groups
  • Supporting students with challenges, such as with reading, writing, or confidence
  • Providing feedback to students and teachers on a student's progress, achievement, and any problems
  • Creating and maintaining an orderly and supportive environment
  • Undertaking administrative tasks as needed
  • Preparing the classroom for lessons

Where you’ll work

KINGSLAND GRANGE

OLD ROMAN ROAD

SHREWSBURY

ENGLAND

SY3 9AH

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

BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED

Your training course

Specialist teaching assistant (level 5)

Equal to higher national diploma (HND)

Course contents
  • Act in line with policies, processes, and procedures related to statutory frameworks and non-statutory guidance, including safeguarding, implementing the setting’s behaviour policy.
  • Establish a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for learners.
  • Establish nurturing, effective working relationships with learners, parents or carers and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development.
  • Undertake dynamic risk assessment of the learning environment.
  • Respond to and mitigate potential hazards that may adversely affect a learning environment.
  • Contribute to the planning of learning and assessment activities.
  • Apply teaching strategies to advance learning, for example scaffolding.
  • Select and use safely, appropriate equipment and resources to advance learning.
  • Apply an appropriate range of assessment methods, including formative, summative and individual needs-based assessments.
  • Analyse assessment outcomes to inform reporting and future planning.
  • Provide ongoing feedback to learners and support them to respond to feedback.
  • Record and report information related to learners’ progress to a range of stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with colleagues and other professionals.
  • Advocate for and champion the needs of learners.
  • Use a range of research to critically evaluate teaching and assessment approaches and practices.
  • Critically evaluate a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environments and learners’ needs.
  • Improve own practice by undertaking continuous self-reflection including seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources.
  • Update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as part of managing their own continuing professional development.
  • Communicate information and analysis in a variety of forms to reflect the needs of the audience, for example by providing appropriate advice and guidance to parents or carers.
  • Support the development of effective practices in others, for example through mentoring and coaching colleagues.
  • Identify, action, and challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
  • Recognise signs of vulnerability in self or colleagues and the appropriate actions required to minimise risks to professional well-being.
  • Implement strategies to support the social and emotional well-being of learners.
  • Select and use technologies safely and effectively to promote learning.
  • Prioritise and manage own workload, for example recognising the importance of capacity.
  • Implement national and local SEND policy, practices, processes, and procedures.
  • Apply approaches to the assessment and early identification of SEND.
  • Apply strategies to adapt provision and practices to support learners with SEND.
  • Implement national and local policies, practices, processes, and procedures related to social and emotional well-being.
  • Identify and signpost learners in need of social and emotional well-being intervention.
  • Apply strategies to support the social and emotional well-being of learners.
  • Implement national and local policies, practices, processes, and procedures related to the specific curriculum provision.
  • Adapt planning and assessment to support learning and progress in the specific area of curriculum provision.
  • Support colleagues by advocating for the specific curriculum provision.
  • Act in line with policies, processes, and procedures related to statutory frameworks and non-statutory guidance, including safeguarding, implementing the setting’s behaviour policy.
  • Establish a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for learners.
  • Establish nurturing, effective working relationships with learners, parents or carers and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development.
  • Undertake dynamic risk assessment of the learning environment.
  • Respond to and mitigate potential hazards that may adversely affect a learning environment.
  • Contribute to the planning of learning and assessment activities.
  • Apply teaching strategies to advance learning, for example scaffolding.
  • Select and use safely, appropriate equipment and resources to advance learning.
  • Apply an appropriate range of assessment methods, including formative, summative and individual needs-based assessments.
  • Analyse assessment outcomes to inform reporting and future planning.
  • Provide ongoing feedback to learners and support them to respond to feedback.
  • Record and report information related to learners’ progress to a range of stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with colleagues and other professionals.
  • Advocate for and champion the needs of learners.
  • Use a range of research to critically evaluate teaching and assessment approaches and practices.
  • Critically evaluate a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environments and learners’ needs.
  • Improve own practice by undertaking continuous self-reflection including seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources.
  • Update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as part of managing their own continuing professional development.
  • Communicate information and analysis in a variety of forms to reflect the needs of the audience, for example by providing appropriate advice and guidance to parents or carers.
  • Support the development of effective practices in others, for example through mentoring and coaching colleagues.
  • Identify, action, and challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
  • Recognise signs of vulnerability in self or colleagues and the appropriate actions required to minimise risks to professional well-being.
  • Implement strategies to support the social and emotional well-being of learners.
  • Select and use technologies safely and effectively to promote learning.
  • Prioritise and manage own workload, for example recognising the importance of capacity.

Your training plan

Specialist Teaching Assistant Level 5 (Higher national diploma) Apprenticeship Standard:

  • The programme offers a blended approach including virtual classrooms, webinars, work-based tasks and online assignments
    We use an online platform (BUD) that helps you learn the topics and skills, reflect on your practice and build your portfolio
  • Candidates are not required to attend college, instead, this will include off the job training hours used throughout this apprenticeship
  • These OTJH will be within working hours of Employment- e.g., 30+ hours per week = 6 hours per week OTJH, less than 30 hours is 20% OTJH
  • You will also receive one-to-one support and tuition from your apprenticeship tutor, this tutor will make in person visits to you at the nursery, or schedule online meetings every 5-6 weeks

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

  • Level 3 Teaching Assistant (grade Pass)

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

  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

About this company An Independent Special school that caters for age ranges 5 - 19yrs. We have been a successful Independent Special School in Wales since 2007. We have been open on our all-through school in Shrewsbury, England for two academic years and are now in our 3rd academic year of operation. Our ethos is to offer more students and their families the opportunity to experience the Therapeutic approach to education and life. Many of our pupils have had challenges within the education system. We go right back to basics and build relationships, self-confidence and a real sense of safety from the offset. Once this is in place, learning will follow. Our pupils have a range of special educational needs and all have EHCP's. We currently have 95 pupils on roll.

https://bettwslifehousekg.org/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Progression after this apprenticeship:

  • Pathways include moving towards HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant) status or considering a Level 6 Teacher Apprenticeship if teaching is a goal

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED

Nakeita

nakeita.perry@bestpracticent.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000302427.

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Closes in 15 days (Monday 10 March at 11:59pm)

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