EYFS Teaching Assistant Apprentice

Hadrian Park Primary School

Wallsend (NE28 9RT)

Closes in 22 days (Sunday 6 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 10 June 2025

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Summary

Hadrian Park Primary School is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic individual to join their Early Years Foundation Stage team as a Early Years Apprentice. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience while working towards a level 3 Early Years Educator qualification.

Wage

£12,955.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, hours to be confirmed.

32 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

Responsibilities:

  • Support the class teacher in delivering engaging and age-appropriate activities aligned with the EYFS curriculum
  • Support pre-planned learning/behaviour activities as directed by the teacher
  • Assist in creating a safe, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment
  • Provide individualised support to children, fostering their social, emotional, and academic development
  • Collaborate with colleagues to plan and implement learning activities
  • Assist teachers in the implementation of appropriate behaviour management and teaching & learning strategies
  • Engage in ongoing professional development and training opportunities
  • Establish rapport and respectful, trusting relationships and communicate effectively with children, their families and carers, and other agencies/professionals
  • Work with colleagues and others to maintain health, safety and welfare within the working environment
  • Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children/Young People

Where you'll work

Hadrian Park Primary School
Addington Drive
Wallsend
NE28 9RT

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

THE EDUCATION TRAINING COLLECTIVE

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
  • Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
  • Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
  • Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
  • Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
  • Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
  • Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
  • Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
  • Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
  • Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
  • Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
  • Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
  • Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
  • Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
  • Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
  • Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
  • Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
  • Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
  • Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
  • Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
  • Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
  • Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
  • Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
  • Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
  • Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
  • Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
  • Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
  • Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
  • Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
  • Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
  • Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
  • Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
  • Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
  • Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
  • Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
  • Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
  • Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
  • Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
  • Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.

Your training plan

  • Level 3 Early Years Educator at Stockton Riverside College
  • Functional skills maths and English, if required

More training information

This apprenticeship will be all on the job, and you won't need to attend Stockton Riverside College. We will come to the workplace.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade A*-C/9-4)
  • Maths (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
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Passion for working with kids
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Willingness to learn
  • Safeguarding knowledge
  • Able to build relationships
  • Time management
  • Enthusiastic
  • Dedicated

About this company

At Hadrian Park Primary School, each classroom is led by caring, passionate and talented professionals who care deeply about the wellbeing and growth of every child in their care. We all recognise children as unique individuals with specific talents and needs, helping every pupil learn successfully is the most important thing we do. We prioritise our time, energy and resources to ensure our curriculum and the environment for learning is exceptional – we strive for excellence. All staff work tirelessly to provide a varied and engaging curriculum and a positive school experience. You’ll find our classrooms to be hives of activity and full of creativity and learning, making Hadrian Park a special place indeed for all children. Our educational mission is that every child will be a reader by the age of 7, and if they are not, we will do everything within our power to help them catch up, so that they can access our broad and balanced curriculum, designed in such a way that they learn more and remember more.

https://www.hadrianparkprimary.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Comprehensive training and support throughout the apprenticeship. Opportunity to gain a nationally recognised qualification. Experience working in a supportive and dynamic school environment or has completed work experience in a similar setting.

After this apprenticeship

Potential for future employment opportunities within the school or wider education sector. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE EDUCATION TRAINING COLLECTIVE

Anna Reeves

anna.reeves@the-etc.ac.uk

07436795883

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325415.

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Closes in 22 days (Sunday 6 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

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