SEND Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Princes Primary School

Princes Primary School

Liverpool (L8 1YQ) Selborne Street, Liverpool, L8 1YQ

Salary: £8 per hour
Training course: Teaching assistant Level 3 SEND – 16 month duration
Hours: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30am-4:30pm. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:30am-3:30pm.
(34 hours a week)
Start date: Friday 26 June 2026
Positions available: 3

Summary

You will work towards completing a level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship. Applicants must have experience and a keen interest in working with SEND children as you will provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum.

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

• To provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum and to provide feedback to the teacher on pupil progress with objectives and tasks.
• To assist with the timely preparation of resources, activities and the teaching environment, ensuring pupil safety. This may include preparing materials to meet individual pupil's needs.
• To clear up after activities, ensuring displays are kept safe and tidy.
• To assist in the development of Individual Education Plans and to help pupils advance towards outcomes on the EHCP and to provide feedback on progress.
• To assist in implementing and reviewing agreed programmes of work and highlight any concerns to the classroom teacher.
• To implement agreed behaviour management strategies to promote positive behaviour.
• To support therapists and pupils before, during and following therapy sessions and to assist with therapies as required.
• To provide opportunities for pupils to experience a variety of play environments that stimulate them and provide opportunities for risk, challenge and personal growth.
• To support pupils to participate as inclusively as possible in all activities.
• To help pupils manage their own feelings and relationships with others.
• To provide support to pupils’ general welfare, including emergency First Aid, feeding, toileting and changing their clothes as instructed to ensure they are clean, tidy and comfortable.
• To be familiar with pupils’ care plans and provide care, encouragement and maintain dignity.
• To assist with monitoring of physical wellbeing, including pupils’ eating habits, to support the development of pupils’ independence.
• To support pupils’ emotional wellbeing, self-reliance, self-esteem and resilience.
• To assist in intimate care as required.
• To assist in the administration of medication to pupils as required and in accordance with their Care Plan and legal guidelines.
• To organise and supervise off-site activities and maintain the health and safety of pupils when outside the school setting.
• To assist in the supervision of pupils during break and lunchtimes and in the use of school transport.
• To provide support for communication and interaction needs, including facilitating communication for pupils who use augmentative or alternative means of communication.
• To support pupils and their families for whom English is an additional language (EAL).
• To establish and maintain effective communication with parents, carers and families about the care and education of their children through Class Dojo, Xpress, review meetings and phone calls.