Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship at Wavertree C of E Primary School
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Liverpool (L15 8HJ)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 25 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 26 June 2025
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Summary
Wavertree Primary School are currently seeking a Teaching Assistant Apprentice to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about working with children, including those with special educational needs (SEN), and who is eager to develop a career in education.
- Wage
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£11,778 a year
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Automatic pay increase after one year on programme for 19+ year olds
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8:45 AM till 3:15 PM with a 30-minute lunch break
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 31 July 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
- Contribute to the school’s inclusive ethos and values, promoting equality, diversity, and acceptance of all learners.
- Uphold and implement safeguarding policies and safe practices, including online safety and maintaining confidentiality.
- Collaborate with teachers, the SENDCo, external professionals, and parents/carers to support pupils’ learning and development.
- Reflect on your own practice and identify professional development opportunities with the support of colleagues.
- Understand individual learner needs and use effective strategies to help all children achieve their goals.
- Promote learner independence through engaging and inclusive activities.
- Build positive relationships with pupils and consistently apply the school’s behaviour policy.
- Support the emotional, social, and personal care needs of all learners, ensuring a safe and nurturing environment.
- Deliver small group and one-to-one support as directed by the class teacher.
- Assist in monitoring, recording, and reporting on learner progress.
- Help create a stimulating learning environment by preparing and maintaining engaging teaching resources.
- Support or lead enrichment activities, such as school clubs, trips, and extra-curricular learning.
Skills and Personal Qualities:
- Patience, sensitivity, and a calm, caring nature
- Enthusiastic about supporting children's learning and development
- Flexible, adaptable, and a team player
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Good active listening and interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow instructions and use initiative
- Confident using basic IT systems or handheld devices
- Interest in education and understanding people’s behaviours and needs
Where you'll work
Rose Villas
Liverpool
L15 8HJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LET ME PLAY 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
The successful candidate will obtain a Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship standard qualification.
More training information
Each apprentice will have their own dedicated tutor who will conduct monthly remote tutorials and reviews, providing continuous support throughout the apprenticeship program. Depending on the apprentice’s needs, the frequency of these sessions may vary.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4)
- Maths (grade 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
- Team working
- Creative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Reliable
- SEN experience
- Flexible
- Enthusiasm and commitment
Other requirements
Pre-employment checks. Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment, the company completes digitalised right-to-work checks and DBS applications via an external provider - 'Matrix Screening'. The company also completes an internal online social media search, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
About this company
Inspire ATA is an official Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, licenced by the Department for Education. Currently ranked 1st in the Rate My Apprenticeship Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK Award 2024-2025. Inspire ATA specialises in creating apprenticeship opportunities, where we recruit and employ the apprentice on behalf of our host clients, enabling us to offer additional support and a better experience for both the apprentice and the client as the experts in the industry. We arrange the most suitable and appropriate apprenticeship training from one of our partnered training providers. If you are successful in securing an apprenticeship with Inspire ATA, it is important to understand that Inspire ATA will be your employer and the apprenticeship placement will be a separate organisation that simply hosts you as an apprentice. As a Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, Inspire ATA performs an important role in developing the UK labour market and it is our responsibility to ensure that talent is recognised, developed, and matched with business needs, whatever the background of the individual, irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, religion or belief, relationship orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity and gender reassignment. We are proud of the diverse nature of our business and work with clients to ensure that all candidates are treated with courtesy and respect.
After this apprenticeship
Potential full-time employment for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Katie Munn
Katie@inspire-ata.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328223.
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Closes in 29 days (Friday 25 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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