Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship
LIVERPOOL COLLEGE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL TRUST
Merseyside (L18 8BG)
Closes on Tuesday 1 December 2026
Posted on 5 October 2026
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Apprentice to join our team. This role is ideal for individuals who are passionate about education and eager to gain hands-on experience in a supportive environment. Liverpool college work with children from ages 4 years up to 19 years old.
- Wage
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£14,560 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 to Friday between 8.00am to 3.00pm
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 1 January 2027
- 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
- Supporting students to accomplish their daily goals in a variety of subjects
- Work with teachers to understand and support assessment
- Develop effective and informed practice
- Safeguard and promote the health, safety and welfare of children
- Develop strategies for support
Where you'll work
Liverpool College Queens Drive Mossley Hill
Liverpool
Merseyside
L18 8BG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED
Training course
Teaching assistant (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
- You will be offered off the job training, which is a blended model of learning of doing coursework, training and shadowing
- You will be entitled to around six hours per week to do this
- On successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will be awarded the Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship
- You can then move onto a higher-level Teaching Assistant qualification (HLTA) and a postgraduate teaching qualification
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Welcome to Liverpool College
Liverpool College is a unique academy, so visitors tell us. They profess that there is a “buzz”, a sense of purpose, and a distinctive ethos about the place. We agree.
The College, a state funded academy, educates approximately 1700 pupils aged 4-19 on a 28 acre campus in South Liverpool. Since 1840, our intent is to empower the young people of Liverpool and beyond to fulfil their dreams and serve their community by delivering a transformational and exceptional education. Since our transition to academy status in 2013, we are able to do this for more pupils and, crucially, without regard to the ability to pay fees.
Our school motto, "Non solum ingenii verum etiam virtutis", "Not only the intellect but also character," taken from Cicero, reflects the College's constant aim to educate the whole person.
We are A School of Character, explicitly and deliberately inspiring and teaching young people to develop our three core Lerpoolian traits: Purpose, Passion, Challenge.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- It is up to you what you do when you have finished your apprenticeship
- There may be an opportunity to stay on at the same company and progress to the next level of qualification, High Level Teaching Assistant
- Alternatively, you may want to look for a new job or other professional development opportunity
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000057152.
Apply now
Closes on Tuesday 1 December 2026