Teaching Assistant Apprentice
Weston College
Weston-Super-Mare (BS22 8NL)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 18 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 July 2025
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Summary
Weston College are looking to recruit 2 x Teaching Assistant Level 3 apprentices to join their Pathways for Young People team. You will support the teaching on various programmes aimed at NEET learners aged 16-25, including the King's Trust course.
- Wage
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£19,293 a year
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Working hours 37 hours per week
Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm.
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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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
You will assist Youth Development Officers in facilitating group activities, 1:1 support sessions, and outreach tasks both on and off site. You will play a key role in motivating learners, supporting their personal development, and helping them progress into further training, employment, or apprenticeships.
KEY TASKS AND DUTIES
As post-holder, you will be responsible to your line manager for the following:
- Assisting with the delivery of group workshops, personal development sessions, and employability activities as part of the King’s Trust Team programme
- Providing practical support during external trips, work experience placements, and residential components
- Supporting learners on a 1:1 basis with activities such as CV building, interview preparation, digital literacy and maths/English work, under supervision
- Encouraging attendance and engagement and building positive relationships with learners to support their development
- Supporting the accurate tracking of learner attendance, engagement and progress using internal systems
- Promoting safeguarding, equality, and inclusive practices at all times
- Participating in training, development reviews, and reflective practice sessions as part of your apprenticeship commitment
- Assisting with administrative tasks, including preparing session materials and maintaining resources
GENERIC DUTIES AND TASKS
- Maintaining safe, clean and positive learning environments in line with Weston College and programme requirements.
- Participating in team meetings, training days, and staff briefings as required.
- Undertaking all work in accordance with College policies and procedures, including health and safety, safeguarding, equality and diversity, and GDPR compliance.
- Attending meetings, reviews, and events as a member of the Youth Development Team.
- Committing to your own professional development, including successfully completing your apprenticeship and any related functional skills (if applicable).
- Undertaking other duties as reasonably required, commensurate with the grade of the appointment.
Where you'll work
South West Skills Campus
Locking Road
Weston-Super-Mare
BS22 8NL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
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.
Training schedule
Teaching Assistant Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
- One day a week attending Weston College
- Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
- An assessor will conduct on-site observations to evaluate your progress, as well as support you in college throughout your apprenticeship
- At the conclusion of your programme, your qualification will be assessed through an Apprenticeship Assessment
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Reliable
- Positive
Other requirements
A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (if required for outreach) is desirable but not essential. As part of the King’s Trust Team programme, apprentices will need to be able to accompany the group on residentials, so they must be willing and able to stay away from home for 4 days at a time per 12-week Team programme. Our programmes are also delivered off-site in Taunton, Bridgwater and Bristol (including Lawrence Weston) and these are the areas we are most in need of staff.
About this employer
Weston College is an award-winning college of further and higher education in Weston-Super-Mare. It provides education and vocational training to nearly 30,000 learners across the country. We put the learner first and are entrepreneurial in our approach and innovative in our thinking. As a college, we are ambitious and aspirational and are responsive to the needs of students, staff, businesses, and the community.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Progression would be based on vacancies at that time within the department and college.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Sharna Thomson
sharna.thomson@weston.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334676.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 18 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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