Aspiring Teaching Support Assistant

Training Provider; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Full time

Job summary

We are looking for talented apprentice teaching assistants to join our growing team of staff. If you feel you have what it takes to work with us and feel passionate about meeting the needs of our student’s, we would very much like to hear from you.

Salary is National Minimum Wage for Apprentices — £13,520 a year. Typical duties include providing a stable, caring and supportive learning environment; supporting pupils who may present challenges in their learning or behaviour; and assisting the

Qualifications

• Learning support is delivered individually and in groups through a range of strategies, these may involve:
• Supporting and directing literacy and numeracy tasks, simplifying direction and communicating it appropriately
• Work with and support pupils to ensure they are able to use ICT and other specialist equipment to enhance their learning, using and maintaining a range of specialist resources
• Be creative in making activities accessible for all learners
• Motivate and encourage pupils to concentrate on and fulfil the tasks set – but not doing it for them!
• Undertake learning activities with pupils to ensure a differentiated approach is used to access the curriculum and achieve success
• Seek to ensure the promotion and reinforcement of pupils’ self esteem, appropriate levels of effort and behaviour and to guide pupils to become independent learners acting as an effective role model to support appropriate behaviour in others
• Contribute to the assessment of pupils’ learning, in all national curriculum subjects and life skills teaching
• To join in with class discussions about the assessment of learners and promote independence
• Assist teaching staff in the development of learning strategies, with the provision of teaching and learning resources and in the preparation and maintenance of a safe, secure and suitable learning environment

Responsibilities

• To help provide a stable, caring and supportive learning environment.
• To be sensitive to times when you will need to step back to allow pupils to learn.
• To facilitate social and moral development.
• To support pupils who may present challenges in learning or behaviour.
• To support learners in becoming more engaged in activities.
• To support on a one-to-one basis or in groups.
• To assist the class teacher and/or Senior TA with record keeping.
• Support the teaching and learning processes.

Job description

We are looking for talented apprentice teaching assistants to join our growing team of staff. If you feel you have what it takes to work with us and feel passionate about meeting the needs of our student’s, we would very much like to hear from you.

Salary is National Minimum Wage for Apprentices — £13,520 a year. Typical duties include providing a stable, caring and supportive learning environment; supporting pupils who may present challenges in their learning or behaviour; and assisting the