Teaching Assistant Apprentice

Delves Infant School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS5 4PU

42 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  30 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12,955.80 Annually (FTE) Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 3.30pm, including half an hour unpaid lunch each day. (32.5 hours)

Teaching Assistant Apprentice job summary

We are seeking an innovative and hardworking individual to work within our school. This will include support in mainstream classrooms, working with small groups of children and providing care over the lunchtime period.

Work

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 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

• Supporting pupils in the classroom to support and move their learning on.
• Provide structured support in accordance with specific work programmes.
• To contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are promoted for pupils.
• Supporting the pupils by providing pastoral support within the school environment.
• Assist children in matters of personal needs and their general health including first aid and welfare matters.
• Provide general support to pupils ensuring their safety.
• Accompanying teaching staff and pupil on visits and trips out of school.
• Support the teacher in the development and implementation of individual education/behaviour plans.
• Assist the teacher with the planning of learning activities.
• Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers and pupils achievement, progress, and problems.
• Supporting the curriculum.
• Supporting the school by promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children you are responsible for.
• Ensuring all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.

Where you'll work

Delves Infant and Nursery School
Botany Road
Walsall
WS5 4PU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Teaching assistant (level 3)

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What you'll learn

• 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.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

RequirementsDesirable qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade 4 and above)
• Math's (grade 4 and above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience

Other requirements

Candidates will need to pass a DBS check to start the role. Interviews to take place 4th September 2025.

Please apply for this role via : Teaching Assistant Apprentice – Find an apprenticeship – GOV.UK

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Delves Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 270 pupils
• Age range: 2 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Delves Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/delves-infant-school-walsall

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