Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

Kingsbury Primary School are looking for an apprentice who is committed to supporting young learners and willing to be flexible and part of their positive team of professionals.

Day-to-day duties may involve:

• Supervise and support the teaching activities of individuals or groups of children/young people to ensure their safety and facilitate their physical and emotional development.

• Supporting a pupil with physical difficulties, liaising with OT and

  other agencies re appropriate exercises

• Taking child with disabilities to the toilet

• Assisting with lunchtime for specific pupils

• Monitor individual pupil’s progress, achievements, problems,

  condition and development needs reporting to the responsible

  teacher as appropriate

• Assist the teacher in the development, delivery and

  implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and

  Personal Care Programmes for individuals or groups of children.

• Prepare and deliver programmes to support Special Needs e.g.

  Little Wandle, one-to-one tuition, interventions etc following the

  guidelines and training given under the guidance of the teacher.

• Assist the teacher with the planning of learning activities in the

  classroom or designated areas preparing or modifying work for

  individuals or groups of pupils as directed.

• Use strategies in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to

  achieve learning goals.

• Provide support for local and national learning strategies e.g.

  English, Mathematics, and Early Years.

• Assist with the implementation of programmes designed by other

  professionals such as Educational Psychologists, Speech and

  Language therapists.

• Assist the teacher with the administration of baseline/tests and

  other assessments.

• Support the use of computing in learning activities and develop

  pupils’ competence and independence in its use.

• To prepare and maintain equipment and teaching resources for

  lessons and activities including the control of stock within the

  classroom.

• Prepare/clear classroom as directed before and after lessons,

  including the preparation of visual aids, and the display

  and presentation

  of pupil’s work.

• Participate in personal and professional development activities to

  meet the changing demands of the job and encourage and support

  other staff in their development and training.

Desired Personal Skills

• Confident in building and maintaining relationships with young

  children

• Works well with other people

• Ability to follow instructions and complete tasks set

• Able to work using own initiative

• Able to communicate effectively in spoken or written form

Benefits Provided by Employer:

• We believe that by working in our school you will be given the

  opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and experience that

  will allow you to be successfully employed in the future as a

  Teaching Assistant.

Future Prospect: Potential to be employed as Level 1 Teaching assistant. Previous apprentices have done this and later left to pursue teacher training.

Benefits Provided by Training Provider:

• Bespoke work-based tuition and additional learning support where necessary.

• Access to TOTUM student discount.

• Access to Life and Progress employee support programme which includes: Health and wellbeing support, Around-the-clock support, and Confidential counselling.

Training to be provided: Training for this qualification will be provided by ourselves at SCCU Group, an Ofsted good training provider. Our tuition is all delivered in the workplace and bespoke to your particular role. Dependent on the learner's prior knowledge.

• Support in Teaching and Learning Level 3 Standard, 18 months practical with an additional 2 months End Point Assessment period.

• Functional Skills in Maths and English (if required).

Working Week and Hours: Term Time only; 8:30am till 3:15pm.

Address: Bromage Avenue, Kingsbury, Tamworth, B78 2HW

Website: https://www.kingsburyps.co.uk/

Salary: Apprenticeship Wage from £6.40 per hour.

Start date: Immediately.