SEND Teaching Assistant Apprentice
Heathfield Junior School
Twickenham (TW2 6EN)
Closes in 5 days (Thursday 23 October 2025)
Posted on 10 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Level 3 teaching assistant qualification with a junior school in Twickenham.
- Wage
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£10,992.80 to £17,777.76, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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28 hours per week.
28 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 30 October 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
1. Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils by:
- Maintaining high expectations in all aspects of work
- Challenging and supporting pupils of all backgrounds and needs
- Supporting the class teacher to create a safe, stimulating and
well-organised learning environment demonstrating care and respect
2. Promote good progress and outcomes for pupils by:
- Contributing to the attainment, progress and outcomes of all pupils, including those with SEND
- Knowing pupils’ capabilities and prior knowledge and planning individual or small group teaching that builds on these
- Demonstrating an awareness of the next steps in individual pupils’ learning
3. Demonstrate good curriculum knowledge and understanding of SEND by:
- Having an understanding of the core areas of the primary curriculum, particularly English (including phonics) and maths
- Demonstrating an understanding of how children make progress in reading
- Demonstrating an understanding of a range of SEND and being willing to expand this to meet the needs of all children supported
4. Where required, plan and deliver well-structured support sessions, within the classroom and outside of the classroom which:
- Consistently meet the school’s high expectations
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the needs of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are well-resourced, appropriate to sessions delivered/supported
5. Make accurate and productive use of assessment by:
- Making accurate notes about a child’s progress within a session
- Liaising closely with the class teacher and the inclusion manager about the steps of progress a child has made
- Preparing and keeping updated case studies on individual children, if required
- Using the SEND Support Plan to guide and inform, and keeping this up to date
- Contributing to Annual Reviews, providing written evidence of progress, where required
6. Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment by:
- Taking account of the individual needs of the children and how these impact their behaviour
- Being willing to adapt the behaviour policy to meet individual needs
- Promoting good and courteous behaviour both in classrooms and around the school, in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy
7. Fulfil wider professional responsibilities by:
- Making a consistently positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school, taking responsibility for improving your own performance through appropriate professional development and responding to advice and feedback from colleagues
- Communicating effectively with other staff and with parents, when required with regard to pupils’ achievements and well-being
- Communicating effectively with external agencies (including EPS and SaLT) and changing practice according to advice offered.
8. Exhibiting leadership behaviours by:
- Consistently demonstrating a positive and optimistic approach.
- Completing tasks set within the given time frame
- Modelling a problem-solving approach to quickly resolve difficulties
- Maintaining good relationships with all members of the school community, based on mutual respect
Where you'll work
Cobbett Road
Twickenham
TW2 6EN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ACHIEVING FOR CHILDREN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
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
The training will take place at home, the workplace or Twickenham Training Centre.
This will be one day per week.
Requirements
Essential 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
About this employer
Heathfield is a federated Infant and Junior school where every child feels important, succeeds and aspires to something greater. We are proud of the support we offer to children with SEND.
After this apprenticeship
Full-time teaching assistant, learning support assistant.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACHIEVING FOR CHILDREN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345863.
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Closes in 5 days (Thursday 23 October 2025)
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