Apprentice Teaching Assistant
Forest Town Primary School
Mansfield (NG19 0ED)
Closes in 19 days (Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 July 2025
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Summary
Do you want to work alongside experienced staff assisting in planning, teaching & assessing lessons and developing, implementing and evaluation individual education plans in a role that will see you work in Early Years and Key Stage One? If you are caring, patient and enthusiastic and want to start a career in education, we'd love to hear from you.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 a year
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The advertised salary is based on 52 weeks of the year, this role will be working 39 weeks of the year, so the actual salary will be £10,894.65. The salary will be paid over 12 even monthly payments to ensure you are paid all year round.
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday 8am-4pm.
Tuesday 8am-3.45pm.
Wednesday 8am-4.15pm.
Thursday 8am-3.45pm.
Friday 8am-3.45pm.
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
- Support the class teacher in the preparation and delivery of learning activities
- Provide 1:1 or small group support to pupils, including those with additional needs
- Assist with classroom organisation, displays and resources
- Supervise pupils during break and lunchtimes and during other non-class-based activities
- Promote positive pupil behaviour in line with the school’s behaviour policy
- Support children’s emotional, social and physical well-being
- Help assess pupil progress and provide feedback to teachers
- Engage in personal and professional activities, including attending training sessions, INSET days and completing all apprenticeship activities and assignments
Where you'll work
Clipstone Road West
Forest Town
Mansfield
NG19 0ED
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
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
This is a work-based programme which means that, predominantly, your learning will take place on the site of your employment and within your contracted working hours.
You will work with expert assessors and tutors to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours within the profession.
You will experience a blended learning model.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
Forest Town Primary School is proud to be a part of the Nova Education Trust. They cater for children aged 3-11 and are part of a strong and diverse community. The school is made up of dedicated and highly supportive staff who have an ethos of "Work Hard - Be Kind". The staff have a genuine commitment to high academic expectation and achievement alongside being dedicated to ensuring the pupils spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of this apprenticeship, it is hoped that there will be a full-time, permanent role for you to move into. This level 3 apprenticeship is the equivalent of A-levels and will give you the entry requirements to progress into a higher-level teaching assistant apprenticeship or apply for a university place. It will also support a career in children and family services and social work alongside many others.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Laura
apprenticeships@wnc.ac.uk
01623 900467
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331219.
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Closes in 19 days (Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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