Apprentice Teaching Assisstant (Endeavour Academy Upper School)
Endeavour Academy Upper School
Nottingham (NG5 6AT)
Closes on Monday 30 June 2025
Posted on 21 May 2025
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Summary
Do you want to start a rewarding career in Education? If you want to learn the skills involved in supporting pupils in their education and gain job satisfaction shaping young peoples’ life journey, this is the job for you! In this role you will develop into a Teaching Assistant professional and make a difference. What to know more? Read more here.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday. Hours to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
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?
Do you want to start a rewarding career with endless opportunities? Could you benefit the lives of children in the local community and make a difference?
If the answer is yes, this is the job you’ve been waiting for! With the help of The RNN Group, this Apprenticeship will give you all you need to secure your future in the education sector and provide you with the skills that are in short supply nationwide.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Support for pupils:
- Supervise and support pupils, ensuring their safety and access to learning
- Attend to the pupils’ needs
- Establish good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding appropriately to individual needs
Support for the Teacher:
- Assist in ensuring that the learning environment is safe and purposeful for the pupils at the beginning and end of the day
- Ensure that all resources and equipment are clean, hygienic and ready for use
- To support children and young people in all areas of learning under the direction of the Teacher or HLTA
- Monitor pupils' responses to learning activities and record achievement and progress as directed
- To encourage positive behaviour for learning
Where you'll work
Sherbrook Road
Daybrook
Nottingham
NG5 6AT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
RNN GROUP
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 Apprenticeship Standard
- Functional Skills maths Level 2 (If required)
- Functional Skills English Level 2 (If required)
- Weekly online taught sessions
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Maths & English (grade A*-C/9-4)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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Friendly and approachable
- Supportive and dedicated
Other requirements
Ensure you can travel to the place of work for the working hours stated above. A full DBS check will be required for successful candidates.
About this company
Our Vision: To enable our school community to achieve the best they can and to become as independent and self-sufficient as possible. To ensure that everyone is empowered to reach their goals and make the most of opportunities that are offered. To recognise and use everyone’s strengths to help and progress others as well as ourselves, and to help each other develop a sense of self-worth and belonging in society. Our Mission Statement : Through honesty we build trust, through empathy we gain understanding and, through resilience, we endeavour to succeed Our Provision We have two main sites within two miles of each other. Our Lower School site on Churchmoor Lane caters predominantly for young people from primary through to Year 8. Some Year 9 students may have an extra year on this site before transferring to our Upper School site on Sherbrook Road. The Upper School caters for students from Year 9 to Post 16 (Y13).
After this apprenticeship
Full-time employment and progression to higher education.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RNN GROUP
Lorraine
lorraine.savage@rnngroup.ac.uk
07713 319356
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322108.
Apply now
Closes on Monday 30 June 2025
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