Teaching Assistant Apprentice (The Mease Spencer Academy)
THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST
Derby (DE65 5LX)
Closes on Sunday 7 September 2025
Posted on 4 August 2025
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Summary
The Mease is a warm, welcoming new academy. We are looking for an Apprentice Teaching Assistant to join our growing team, helping us to create a great experience for our pupils. You will be mainly class based in our Year 3 and 4 classes but, as a small school, it is essential that you are prepared to get stuck into anything!
- Wage
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£14,526.20 to £23,492.04, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday - Term time only (39 weeks a year) Hours tbc.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 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
Working as part of this important team you will be required to carry out the following duties (the nature of the Academy Year requires some tasks to be done regularly whilst others annually):
- Deliver planned activities for individuals and groups to allocated pupils, in small groups or individually, differentiating and adapting learning programmes to suit individual need (Under the professional direction and supervision of a qualified teacher)
- Plan and evaluate specialist learning activities
- Prepare reports and records for the teacher
- Promote outstanding pupil behaviour for learning and support social and emotional well-being, reporting any problems to the teacher and/or Child Protection Lead (as appropriate and in line with school policies
- Promote and support the role of parents/carers in pupils’ learning and enabling constructive information sharing about progress and achievement
Where you'll work
Carsington Road
Hilton
Derby
DE65 5LX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST
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
- You will work towards the completion of a Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship Standard Level 3
- Training will be delivered face-to-face, online and through webinars. The school will provide in-house training
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
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
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
An informal visit to the school is warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please call the school office on 01332 981187 to arrange a convenient date and time. We will be delighted to hear from you! In line with safer recruitment policies, references will be called for prior to interview.
About this employer
The Mease is a warm, welcoming new academy which opened in September 2019, part of the Spencer Academies Trust.
After this apprenticeship
- You could be employed as a Teaching Assistant and progress to become a Learning Mentor or Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST
Megan Hingley
mhingley@spencertrust.org.uk
01159170100
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335224.
Apply now
Closes on Sunday 7 September 2025
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