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About the Role
This is not your typical classroom-based role — you’ll be at the heart of student life; you will be working with a range of students across the wider college environment. Supporting students with special educational needs, neurodivergences and complex medical and personal care needs across a wide range of settings.
What You'll Do
To support, supervise and report issues relating to the learning and holistic development of individuals, or small groups of students, with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, under the direction of teaching and line management staff. To include (but is not limited to) on-course support (e.g. general in-lesson support related to their individual requirements, note taking, assistance with practical tasks etc); off-course support (e.g. supporting students to move safely, lunch duties, personal care, transport arrangements, appropriate first aid, encourage integration into college activities, etc.); residential and day trip support.
- Support and supervise the learning of individuals, or small groups of students.
- Communication and reporting of any issues.
- Assisting with skills development (in a variety of ways), practical tasks; health and safety issues; and utilising specialisms.
- Identification of student needs and adaptation of learning materials to suit student needs.
- Dealing with non-class time supervision and well-being related issues in or out of class (1:1 or in small groups as required).
- Assisting with the development of student independence and their involvement in college activities.
- To carry out all organisational and administrative work. To include (but not limited to) keeping records of student support provided e.g. daily logs, e-ilps, behaviour plans etc., under the direction of a line manager; to assist in the maintenance of stock, equipment and all other resources (includes HR related); to participate in the annual review and impact analysis of support provided.
- Team and collaborative work, with colleagues’ college-wide, including use of e-ilps in monitoring progress of student targets.
- Student and centre related record keeping and administration.
- To undertake regular professional development. To include (but not limited to) participation in the College’s Probationary & Appraisal Procedures, regular and timely updates to mandatory training sessions, attendance at appropriate internal and external staff development sessions and courses.
- All CPD related activities and meetings, both internal and external.
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Where You'll Work
5 Ipswich Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 2LJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- Training provider: CITY COLLEGE NORWICH
- 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.
Training Schedule
Apprentices will attend City College Norwich (Ipswich Road Campus) for one day per week, for the duration of the Apprenticeship.
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Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other Requirements
- Due to the age of the students involved (16-18 FE students) preference will be given candidates who are over 19+
- Candidates must pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
About the College
City College Norwich has an outstanding campus with industry-standard facilities. Although our college has been established for over 135 years, a lot of the buildings on our campus have been built or newly refurbished in the past few years. This includes our award-winning Creative Arts Building, and £9m Digi-Tech Factory which is proving to be a real asset for a wide range of students. This inspirational building is a centre for digital skills, including our digital technology, engineering and design courses. Our latest investments have been in our Advanced Construction and Engineering Centre which is home to a range of cutting-edge workshop equipment and the latest electric vehicle maintenance equipment and our Construction Skills Hub supporting plumbers and electricians of the future!
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/our-college/welcome-to-city-college-norwich/ (opens in new tab)
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They will be able to apply for a permanent role as they arise.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY COLLEGE NORWICH
Reference code for this apprenticeship: VAC2000043830
Closing date: 13 days (Wednesday 5 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
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