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Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Wyre Forest School
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Are you passionate about education and eager to make a difference in students’ lives? Our Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship offers you a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic school environment while earning a qualification that will kickstart your career in education!
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As a Teaching Assistant Apprentice, you will:
- To support the ethos of the school and work collaboratively with the classroom teacher in their responsibility for the development and education of children, including those who have special physical, emotional and educational needs, by utilising detailed knowledge and specialist skills.
- Attend and participate in regular class, department and school meetings.
Responsibilities and Tasks
- To work in class and to work unsupervised in delivering programmes of work to support individuals and small groups of learners.
- Planning to contribute to the planning of work programmes for individuals and groups of children, providing ideas, materials and learning strategies for lessons.
- Pastoral duties: To provide assistance with the provision of general care and welfare of learners, including assistance with:
- Supporting learners to be independent.
- Maintaining a safe environment at all times.
- The monitoring of pupils' general health & welfare.
- Reinforcing self-esteem through praise and encouragement.
- Adhering to and maintaining school routine and codes of conduct.
- Children’s injuries and, where qualified, administering basic first aid.
- Personal hygiene routines, e.g. toilet training, changing of incontinent pupils, dressing and undressing.
- The changing of soiled clothing including its disposal in an appropriate way.
- The administering of medicines under the direction of the appropriate medical staff (following consultation and agreement).
- Provide supervision of learners at the beginning and end of the school day.
- Behaviour: Provide pastoral support to pupils monitoring their behaviour to identify and respond to uncharacteristic behaviour patterns and incidents of challenging behaviour and to recognise and reward progress.
- Recording and Assessment: To monitor the progress and needs of learners and be responsible for the assessment, evidence records and file maintenance for a few designated learners within a class group.
- Contribute to the annual review and end-of-year reports.
- Teaching and Learning: Prepare and organise teaching resources under the direction of the class teacher, supporting the learner in carrying out this work. Maintain classroom equipment and materials, including stock control within the classroom.
- Foster the intellectual and social development of children.
- Promote pupil independence and their involvement in their own learning.
- Support lunchtime clubs/activities.
- Support the manufacture of resources and administration of course work.
- Where required, support learners in the swimming pool.
- Attend and participate in regular class, department and school meetings.
- Policies and Procedures: To maintain an awareness of school policies and procedures.
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Where you'll work
Habberley Road
Kidderminster
DY11 6FA
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.
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Training schedule
This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 equivalent)
- Maths (grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 equivalent)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Other requirements
Pre-employment checks. Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment, the company completes digitalised right-to-work checks and DBS applications via an external provider – 'Matrix Screening'. The company also completes an internal online social media search, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
About this employer
Inspire ATA is an official Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, licenced by the Department for Education. Currently ranked 1st in the Rate My Apprenticeship Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK Award 2024-2025. Inspire ATA specialises in creating apprenticeship opportunities, where we recruit and employ the apprentice on behalf of our host clients, enabling us to offer additional support and a better experience for both the apprentice and the client as the experts in the industry. We arrange the most suitable and appropriate apprenticeship training from one of our partnered training providers. If you are successful in securing an apprenticeship with Inspire ATA, it is important to understand that Inspire ATA will be your employer and the apprenticeship placement will be a separate organisation that simply hosts you as an apprentice. As a Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, Inspire ATA performs an important role in developing the UK labour market and it is our responsibility to ensure that talent is recognised, developed, and matched with business needs, whatever the background of the individual, irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, religion or belief, relationship orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity and gender reassignment. We are proud of the diverse nature of our business and work with clients to ensure that all candidates are treated with courtesy and respect.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000047898.
Closes in 11 days (Monday 24 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
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