Teaching Assistant Level 3 Apprentice
Waterhead Academy
Oldham (OL4 3NY)
Closes in 14 days (Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 13 June 2025
Contents
Summary
To assist with responsibility, under the direction of teachers, for the education, supervision and welfare of identified pupils with Statements/EHC plans, EAL/New Arrivals or others as directed to by the SENCO. This is a secondary school.
- Wage
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£13,348.40 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 - Friday, 33.5 hours per week. Shift times to be confirmed.
33 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 2 September 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
Support for pupils
- To work with individuals or groups of children under the supervision of the Inclusion Team to assist with the delivery of programmes of work and implementation of IEPs.
- To assist with the supervision and provide particular support for pupils, including those with special needs ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.
- Give regular feedback on progress to the SENCO and file records.
- Attend to children’s personal needs, including pastoral, social, health, physical hygiene, and minor first aid and welfare matters.
- Establish good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model by presenting a positive personal image and responding appropriately to individual needs.
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.
- Encourage pupils to act independently as appropriate.
Support for the teachers
- Undertake pupil record keeping and updating records, information and data, producing reports as required.
- Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers and report on information from parents/carers to the SENCO.
- Assist with the monitoring of pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.
- Assist with the routine marking of pupils’ work.
Support for the Curriculum
- Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses and recording achievement and progress and providing feedback to the SENCO.
- Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use.
Support for the School
- Be aware of and comply with child protection procedures, health and safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting any concerns to the relevant member of staff.
- Assist in maintaining high standards of health and safety at all times.
- Maintain good relationships with colleagues and work together as a team.
- Assist in the supervision of classroom and outdoor activities.
- Assist with the supervision of small groups of pupils for short periods when the teacher is not present.
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
- Attend relevant meetings.
- Participate in training, including relevant learning strategies and other learning activities and performance management where required.
Other
- Undertake break, lunch, before and after school duties as required.
- Carry out the related duties as and when required from time to time.
Where you'll work
Waterhead Academy
Huddersfield Road
Oldham
OL4 3NY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
THE OLDHAM COLLEGE
Your 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.
Your training plan
Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 9-4/A*-C or equivalent)
- Maths (grade Grade 9-4/A*-C or equivalent)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Willingness to undertake training in relevant learning strategies. You will be expected to be flexible with the working hours to ensure ratios are maintained. During the year you will be expected to participate in additional events out of the normal working hours, for example, parent’s evening and open days. There is a degree of lifting and carrying that you will need to be able to carry out. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS. Applications will only be accepted through the National Apprenticeship Website: https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship Please do not contact the employer direct. If your application is successful, you will be contacted by The Oldham College (normally via email) to invite you to attend a pre-interview and initial assessment.
About this company
Our vision at WHA is to simply maximise every child’s potential to ensure we can confidently say we gave every student his or her GCSE passport to success. Our motivation is to ensure that positive relationships are at the core of what we do every day, along with high quality teaching and pastoral care overseen by strong and passionate leadership. Our core values of Respect, Ambition and Determination underpin everything that we do.
After this apprenticeship
Any successful apprenticeship who demonstrates the ability and necessary skills to carry out the role of a Level 3 TA to a high standard, would be considered for any vacancy that may arise in the school. This would be part of a further recruitment process.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE OLDHAM COLLEGE
Andrea Kearns
andrea.kearns@oldham.ac.uk
0161 785 4072
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325966.
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Closes in 14 days (Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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