Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship
ACADEMY TRANSFORMATION TRUST
Oldbury, B68 9PA
Closes in 2 days (Thursday 23 January at 11:59pm)
Posted on 9 January 2025
Contents
Summary
Join Bristnall Hall Academy as a Teaching Assistant Apprentice. Support students with special needs, assist in lessons, and track progress while gaining a Level 3 qualification over 18 months. With an inclusive community rated Outstanding, this role offers training, teamwork, and a chance to make a difference.
- Annual wage
- £17,872 a year
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, shifts to be discussed. (Term Time only - 38-40 Weeks a year)
32 hours 30 minutes a week
- Possible start date
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Friday 24 January
- 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
- Use data to inform targets for development
- Assist children in developing communication, reading, writing, manual dexterity, and basic educational skills as directed by the teacher or SENCO
- Help children communicate with the teacher and follow instructions
- Reinforce lesson content as agreed with the teacher
- Support physiotherapy, speech therapy, and other specialist programs under appropriate guidance
- Collaborate with staff to plan interventions and ensure pupil progress
- Track and record pupil progress during interventions
- Report progress or concerns to the SEND team
- Assist students with feeding, toileting, changing clothes, and cleaning up as needed
- Escort children to and from transport and accompany them within the school building
- Provide support during breaks and assist with intimate care needs (training provided)
- Attend department meetings to discuss student progress and meet with parents as required
- Prepare teaching resources and materials for individual, class, or group activitiesAssist teachers in creating individual teaching programs
- Modify materials for students with visual impairments or other disabilities
- Supervise children during breaks, school trips, or in the teacher's absence for short periods
- Perform other duties consistent with the role
Where you’ll work
Bristnall Hall Lane
Oldbury
B68 9PA
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
- Work towards your Level 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification. (All learning is delivered online/ remote)
- Training Provider: LMP Education (rated as the best UK training provider)
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C or above or equivalent)
- Maths (grade 4/C or above or equivalent)
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
About this company
We are very pleased to be an Outstanding academy, following on from our inspection in November 2023. Inspectors stated that Bristnall Hall Academy is a “truly inclusive and harmonious school” and that “everyone is proud to be part of a close-knit school community that is working together with a common purpose.” Our staff “feel valued” and our classrooms “ooze enthusiasm and productivity”. We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.
After this apprenticeship
- Full-time role to be considered upon completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
Owen MacKinnon
owen.mackinnon@lmpeducation.org
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000295250.
Apply now
Closes in 2 days (Thursday 23 January at 11:59pm)
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