Apprentice TA - NVQ Level 3
Oakfield Primary Academy, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV22 6AU2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
6 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £10,733.00 Annually (Actual) Salary £12,313.60 FTE. Actual Salary £10733 pa (£6.40 per hour) . Working 37 hours per week, term time only + 5 inset days. Fixed term contract for 12 months
Apprentice TA - NVQ Level 3 job summary
As part of our continued growth and development Oakfield Primary Academy and REAch2 Academy Trust are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant Apprentice to join our team. If you’re interested in working alongside likeminded professionals who go the extra mile to provide exceptional learning opportunities for children and want to learn on the job? We want to hear from you!
The successful apprentice will undertake all relevant training to support knowledge skills and behaviour in order to qualify.
Our Level 3 Learning Support Assistant Apprenticeship will provide you with fully funded, structured training to improve your practice as a learning support assistant and learn valuable skills.
Our Learning Support Assistant Apprenticeship will help you to:
- Gain a nationally recognised Level 3 apprenticeship at no cost to you
- Receive training focused on supporting pupil progress and development aligned to the curriculum
- Develop an understanding of how to actively support the class teacher
- Safeguard pupils and build a positive and nurturing environment
- Build confidence supporting pupils with special education needs, EAL or SEMH
- Contribute to planning, class activities and team meetings
- Develop your career without leaving your school
Desired skills:
- Good verbal and written English
- Good time management skills
- Good communication skills
- Organised
- Problem solving skills
- Pragmatic
The successful candidate will have:
- The motivation and passion to achieve the very best for the children with additional needs in our care and be relentless in the pursuit of excellence
- A good understanding of the range of additional needs that pupils can have and how best to support them
- The ability to work independently as well as part of a wider team
- The ability to work on initiative
- A willingness to undertake professional development and grow their skills
- Excellent communication skills
Why Work with REAch2 Academy Trust?
Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:
Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.
Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.
Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.
Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.
Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.
Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.
Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:
- Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.
- Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.
- Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.
- Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.
- Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.
Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Oakfield Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 411 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Oakfield Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
School location
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