Apprentice Early Years Teaching Assistant
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield (S6 4AJ)
Closes on Monday 30 June 2025
Posted on 13 May 2025
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Summary
Your role will be to provide support to staff, pupils and support for the curriculum and EYFS. You will work under the instruction/guidance of teaching/senior staff to undertake work/care/support programmes, to enable access to learning for children and to assist Staff in the management of children and EYFS.
- Wage
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£13,689 a year
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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(6.5 hours per day) 8.30am - 3.30pm, Monday - Friday.
32 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
Each day will be different, and you will spend time working in Foundation stage and in Key Stage. However, the main duties will remain the same and you will receive training and support to enable you to assist in carrying out the following:
Support for pupils:
- Supervise and provide particular support for pupils, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
- Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes including the delivery of interventions
- Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils
- Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher
- Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence
- Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher
Support for the teacher:
- Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly, and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans and assist with the display of pupils’ work
- Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve learning goals
- Assist with the planning of learning activities
- Monitor pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed
- Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupils’ achievement, progress, problems, etc.
- Promote good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers
- Undertake marking of pupils’ work
- Provide clerical/admin support e.g. photocopying, typing, filing
Support for the curriculum:
- Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses
- Undertake programmes linked to local and national curriculums
- Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use
- Prepare, maintain, and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist pupils in their use
Support for the school:
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality, and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person/use of CPOMS
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
- Appreciate and support the role of other professionals
- Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required
- Assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, including before and after school and at lunchtime
- Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher
- Any other related duties as may arise
Where you'll work
Marlcliffe Primary School
Marlcliffe Road
Sheffield
S6 4AJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL
Your training course
Teaching assistant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
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
Teaching Assistant Level 3.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English Language (grade 4)
- Maths (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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
If offered an interview candidates will be asked to provide evidence that they have Grade 4 or above at GCSE in Maths and English Language, or an equivalent such as Functional Skills at Level 2.
About this company
Marlcliffe is a large primary school based in Hillsborough with 476 children on roll. We have a stable, experienced and supportive staff group. We offer the opportunity to work in a welcoming and exciting learning environment where everyone is valued, where hard work and achievement is appreciated, acknowledged and celebrated. We offer a full programme of professional development for all staff. We have previously supported apprenticeships in school and some of these have successfully become qualified teachers. Our children are happy, enthusiastic and keen to learn, with supportive parents and governors. Our foundation stage operates a continuous provision and there are extensive periods of time spent outdoors in the yard but also in our secret garden. This continues through all kinds of weather. You will be a part of a small, close knit team who work together to introduce children to school life with routines and structured learning. We use Little Wandle phonics with our children and reading group.
After this apprenticeship
On successful completion of the apprenticeship, the candidate may have the opportunity to apply for a permanent role should a vacancy arise.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL
Tony Robinson
tony.robinson@sheffield.gov.uk
07917067388
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000320405.
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Closes on Monday 30 June 2025
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