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Teaching assistant Level 3 (SEND Pathway) Apprenticeship at Meadowhead School
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About Meadowhead
At Meadowhead, our vision is to make a difference to the lives of our young people. Through excellence and continual improvement, we aim to be the best we can possibly be for our current and future students.
Work as an Apprentice
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work:
- Work with the teacher to maintain an appropriate learning environment
- Work with the teacher in routine lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans as appropriate
- Monitor and evaluate pupils’ responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement against pre-determined learning objectives
- Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports as required, to the teacher on pupil achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence
- Be responsible for keeping and updating routine records as agreed with the teacher, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested
- Undertake marking of pupils’ work and accurately record achievement/progress
- Promote positive values, attitudes and good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Liaise sensitively and effectively with parents/carers as agreed with the teacher within your role/responsibility and participate in feedback sessions/meetings with parents with, or as directed
- Administer and assess routine tests and invigilate exams/tests
- Provide general and routine clerical/administrative support, e.g. produce worksheets for agreed activities etc.
- Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, making appropriate adjustments according to pupil responses/needs
- Implement local and national learning strategies, e.g. literacy, numeracy, KS3, early years and make effective use of opportunities provided by other learning activities to support the development of relevant skills
- To provide whole class cover either planned or unplanned in the absence of the class teacher
- Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use
- Help pupils to access learning activities through specialist support
- Prepare and maintain general and specialist equipment and resources in line with agreed plans and strategies
- Use specialist (curricular/learning) skills/training/experience to support pupils
- Assist with the development and implementation of IEPs
- Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high
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Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Essential qualifications:
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4–9 (A*–C))
- maths (grade 4–9 (A*–C))
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
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About Inspire ATA
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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Potential full-time employment within the practice for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
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