Teaching Assistant Apprentice
DORRINGTON ACADEMY
BIRMINGHAM (B42 1QR)
Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 9 July 2025)
Posted on 25 June 2025
Contents
Summary
Dorrington Academy is excited to provide the opportunity to work within an outstanding school environment. Earn while you learn and gain a recognised qualification that will enhance your skills and set you on a successful career pathway with great employment opportunities. You will be supervising classroom activities and assisting with activities.
- Wage
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£13,741 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 to Friday, working times to be agreed at interview stage.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Duties will include:
- Supervising classroom activities
- Assisting with young people’s learning experience
- Helping students who might need extra support
- Learning classroom-based skills and behaviour techniques
- Learning how to plan sessions and think about learning objectives
- Working alongside the teacher to support all classroom activities
Support for the teacher:
- Assist with the planning of learning activities
- Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve learning goals
- Prepare the classroom as directed for lessons and clear afterwards
- Assist with the display of pupil’s work
- Monitor pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement / progress as directed
- Establish constructive relationships with parents / carers
- Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupil’s achievement, progress, problems etc.
- Maintain records as requested
- 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
- Provide general clerical / administrative support e.g. administer coursework, produce worksheets for agreed activities, photocopying, typing, filing etc.
Support for the curriculum:
- Support pupils in understanding instructions
- Undertake structured and agreed learning activities / teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses
- Support pupils in using ICT and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use
- Prepare, maintain, and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activities, and assist pupils in their use
- Monitor and manage stock and supplies, cataloguing as required
Where you'll work
DORRINGTON ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
B42 1QR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
RIVERSIDE TRAINING LIMITED
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 qualification
- Keeping children safe in education
- Safeguarding
- Prevent training
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
Maths and English (grade 4/C or higher)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
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
The Academy is committed to high achievement for all through the creation of a happy, organised and stimulating working environment enabling the children to realise their potential for learning and their capacity for enjoyment.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential for ongoing role within the school on successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RIVERSIDE TRAINING LIMITED
Jay Cooley
j.coley@dorrington.bham.sch.uk
0121 464 5330
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328136.
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Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 9 July 2025)
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