Apprentice Teaching Assistant

As a Teaching Assistant Apprentice at the Acre Rigg Academy, you will play a key role within a supportive and inclusive team, helping to create a positive learning environment and supporting pupils to reach their full potential. You will develop skills, knowledge and experience of working within Education and you will also develop:

• An understanding of current statutory guidance including 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' Part 1, Safeguarding policies, prevent strategy.
• Recognise different stages of child development through school e.g. transition between key stages and year groups.
• Support and encourage pupils to move towards independent learning.

• Foster and encourage positive, effective, nurturing and safe learning environments inspiring pupils to take pride in and learn from their individual achievements.
• Recognise, adapt and respond to all pupils encompassing SEN/emotional vulnerabilities, for example, use Makaton, visual timetables.
• Work closely with teachers to ensure own contribution aligns with the teaching.
• Ensure regular communication with teachers to provide clarity and consistency of role within lessons.
• Deliver/lead small group teaching within clearly defined/planned parameters using initiative, sensitivity and understanding.
• Build appropriate relationships with colleagues, pupils, parents, adults and stakeholders.
• Implement current statutory guidance including 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' Part 1, safeguarding policies, Prevent Strategy.
• Undertake safeguarding training.
• Support pupils' well‑being whilst embedding the importance of online safety.
• Contribute to a range of assessment processes and use information effectively, for example: written records.
• Use specific feedback to help pupils make progress.
• Apply good subject knowledge to support accurate assessment.

About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Onsite parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee discounts
• Extensive CPD and upskilling opportunities

Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day. You will be working towards the Teaching Assistant Level 3 apprenticeship standard, which includes:

• Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
• Teaching Assistant L3 Apprenticeship Standard
• Functional skills in Maths and English if required
• Training to be Provided
• Apprenticeship Duration 12 Months