Apprentice Teaching Assistant level 3
Newbold CE Primary School
UK (DE23 6QP)
Closes in 23 days (Friday 31 October 2025)
Posted on 7 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you wanting to make a difference to a child's life? Hardwick Primary School has a great opportunity for a Teaching Assistant Apprentice. Teaching assistants play a crucial role in assisting the class teacher, working with groups of children or individuals supporting their learning and well-being to access the curriculum and grow and develop.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 8 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
Hardwick Primary School is a city centre Primary School with 591 students. Teachers at Hardwick have the highest possible expectations for all children in their class.
They are looking for a positive, determined apprentice to join the team and undertake a Level 3 teaching Assistant Apprenticeship.
You will be expected to;
- Act in accordance with school policies and procedures and relevant legislation particularly, in relation to child protection and behaviour management
- Participate with other team members in the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of learning programmes for individuals and group of pupils
- Participate in the delivery of local and national initiatives, for example, EYFS
- Monitor and contribute to the assessment and recording of children’s development and be involved in the sharing of this information
- Attend reviews during normal working hours
- Participate in and contribute to staff meetings and INSET
- Maintain and develop good working relationships with parents and other adults involved with each child
- Give general support to school activities
- Promote the ethos of the school
- Being aware of confidentiality linked to home/pupil/teacher/school work and to keep confidences as appropriate
- Prepare support materials
- Contribute to the preparation of classrooms and outdoor areas
- Display work and information for children and adults
- Exercise general care and supervision of children during the school day, inside and outside
- Promote development and learning, physical, emotional, educational and social
- Provide a secure, caring and enriching environment for the children
- Support children including those with statements of SEN
- Arrange for First Aid to be given, comfort sick children and accompany children to hospital, home or clinic, if appropriate
- Encourage acceptance and inclusion of all children
- Have familiarity with all relevant statements of special education needs and MEP’s
- Help to promote children’s self esteem
- Working to establish a supportive relationship with the children and parents concerned
Where you'll work
Dover Street
Derby
UK
DE23 6QP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
- Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
- Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
- Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
- Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
- Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
- Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
- Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
- Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
- Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
- Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
- Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
- Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
- Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
- Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
- Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
- Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
- Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
- Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
- Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
- Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
- Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
- Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
- Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
- Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
- Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
- Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
- Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
- Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
- Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
- Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
- Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
- Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
- Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
- Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
- Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
- Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
- Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
- Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
- Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
Training schedule
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. Hardwick Primary will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day.
You will be working towards the Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant Standard
- CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Safeguarding and Prevent
- Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (by exception) This will be delivered through Hardwick Primary’s dedicated training provider, Realise
- Realise is an established training provider that’s enjoying an exciting period of growth following a management buyout and rebrand in late 2020
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 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
- Attention to detail
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
This role is term time only. A DBS is required.
About this employer
Hardwick Primary School is a vibrant inner city school with 592 children on roll, from Nursery to Year 6.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential for progression - Possibility of TA role for suitable candidate, funding dependent, following completion of apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345354.
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Closes in 23 days (Friday 31 October 2025)
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