SEND Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Princes Primary School
Princes Primary School
Liverpool (L8 1YQ)
Closes in 15 days (Friday 19 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 4 June 2026
Contents
Summary
- You will work towards completing a level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship.
- Applicants must have experience and a keen interest in working with SEND children as you will provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum.
- Wage
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£14,144 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 & Wednesday, 8:30am-4:30pm.
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:30am-3:30pm.
34 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 26 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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4
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
- To provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum and to provide feedback to the teacher on pupil progress with objectives and tasks.
- To assist with the timely preparation of resources, activities and the teaching environment, ensuring pupil safety. This may include preparing materials to meet individual pupil's needs.
- To clear up after activities, ensuring displays are kept safe and tidy.
- To assist in the development of Individual Education Plans and to help pupils advance towards outcomes on the EHCP and to provide feedback on progress.
- To assist in implementing and reviewing agreed programmes of work and highlight any concerns to the classroom teacher.
- To implement agreed behaviour management strategies to promote positive behaviour.
- To support therapists and pupils before, during and following therapy sessions and to assist with therapies as required.
- To provide opportunities for pupils to experience a variety of play environments that stimulate them and provide opportunities for risk, challenge and personal growth.
- To support pupils to participate as inclusively as possible in all activities.
- To help pupils manage their own feelings and relationships with others.
- To provide support to pupils’ general welfare, including emergency First Aid, feeding, toileting and changing their clothes as instructed to ensure they are clean, tidy and comfortable.
- To be familiar with pupils’ care plans and provide care, encouragement and maintain dignity.
- To assist with monitoring of physical wellbeing, including pupils’ eating habits, to support the development of pupils’ independence.
- To support pupils’ emotional wellbeing, self-reliance, self-esteem and resilience.
- To assist in intimate care as required.
- To assist in the administration of medication to pupils as required and in accordance with their Care Plan and legal guidelines.
- To organise and supervise off-site activities and maintain the health and safety of pupils when outside the school setting.
- To assist in the supervision of pupils during break and lunchtimes and in the use of school transport.
- To provide support for communication and interaction needs, including facilitating communication for pupils who use augmentative or alternative means of communication.
- To support pupils and their families for whom English is an additional language (EAL).
- To establish and maintain effective communication with parents, carers and families about the care and education of their children through Class Dojo, Xpress, review meetings and phone calls.
Where you'll work
Selborne Street
Liverpool
L8 1YQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
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
- Your Apprenticeship training will be delivered remotely by LMP Education.
- You will work with a tutor on a 121 basis who will meet with you every 4-6 week.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9)
- Math's (grade 4-9)
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
- Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
- Expererience of working with SEND children.
About this employer
We are an SEN primary school for children with additional and complex needs. At Princes we have developed our own play based curriculum (adapted from the national curriculum) which is tailored to meet the children's needs and allows us to use their interests to make it really engaging.
After this apprenticeship
- After completion of the apprenticeship you may be offered a permanent position within the school.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
Emily Archer
emily.archer@lmpeducation.org
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034558.
Apply now
Closes in 15 days (Friday 19 June 2026 at 11:59pm)