Teaching Assistant Apprentice
Delves Infant and Nursery School
Walsall (WS5 4PU)
Closes on Saturday 30 August 2025
Posted on 15 July 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking an innovative and hardworking individual to work within our school. This will include support in mainstream classrooms, working with small groups of children and providing care over the lunchtime period.
- Wage
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£12,955.80 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, 8.30am – 3.30pm, including half an hour unpaid lunch each day.
32 hours 30 minutes 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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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
- Supporting pupils in the classroom to support and move their learning on.
- Provide structured support in accordance with specific work programmes.
- To contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are promoted for pupils.
- Supporting the pupils by providing pastoral support within the school environment.
- Assist children in matters of personal needs and their general health including first aid and welfare matters.
- Provide general support to pupils ensuring their safety.
- Accompanying teaching staff and pupil on visits and trips out of school.
- Support the teacher in the development and implementation of individual education/behaviour plans.
- Assist the teacher with the planning of learning activities.
- Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers and pupils achievement, progress, and problems.
- Supporting the curriculum.
- Supporting the school by promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children you are responsible for.
- Ensuring all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
Where you'll work
Delves Infant and Nursery School
Botany Road
Walsall
WS5 4PU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Teaching assistant (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 and above)
- Math's (grade 4 and above)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Candidates will need to pass a DBS check to start the role. Interviews to take place 4th September 2025.
About this company
Every child, without exception, should leave our schools with the value, skills and experiences to enable them to thrive and be productive members of society. Delves Federation has a reputation for excellence within the local community and beyond. Our Federated Mission Statement We have a shared desire to raise standards and inspire young minds. This will be achieved through inspirational leadership, high quality teaching and high expectations for all. Our curriculum is driven by the exploration of possibilities to allow children to dream, the promotion of a growth mindset to encourage children to believe and the development of resilience which supports children to achieve and these aspects are at the heart of everything we do, giving all children the opportunity to succeed.
After this apprenticeship
To be decided upon completion of training.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED
PTP Recruits
ptprecruits@ptp-training.co.uk
01922651100
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000330738.
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Closes on Saturday 30 August 2025
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