Apprentice Teaching Assistant at Ben Rhydding Primary School

The successful candidate will join the strong staff team in this high performing, popular and friendly school. The apprentice will learn how to effectively support children’s learning in all aspects of school, including delivering 1:1 and small group interventions and catch up programmes. This apprenticeship will prepare the successful candidate to work as a Teaching Assistant, supporting children with a broad range of starting points. You will need to be committed to developing inclusion, have some experience of working with children and have a calm, positive and confident manner. This apprenticeship post will lead to a Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification.

The successful candidate will need to:

Be enthusiastic, well-motivated and committed to raising standards Be committed to professional learning and development especially with regard to the delivery of catch up and other intervention programme Be a well organised, friendly, and flexible team player, with good interpersonal skills Be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, parents and other professionals Demonstrate an interest and aptitude for working with ICT/new technologies Demonstrate recent experience of working with children in either a paid or voluntary role

For the right candidate, we can offer:

A warm, supportive and nurturing environment where children and adults learn together and build strong relationships High quality in-house training in bespoke catch up programmes which will build upon and enhance the apprenticeship programme training To work in partnership with your training provider (Shipley College) to ensure facilitation of study periods/day release

If you have the skills and ambition to join our team, we would love to hear from you. In your personal statement we are looking for you to highlight how you would be looking to make a positive contribution to our school.

Training:

Training by day release at Shipley College on a Thursday, including regular assessor workplace visits to support the training.

Training Outcome:

As well as ensuring full competency as a Teaching Assistant, this standard provides a foundation for potential progression into a number of career paths in the Educational sector, including Teaching Assistant, Cover, Supervisor, Higher Level Teaching Assistant and Teacher.

Employer Description:

We truly want to develop pupils and staff with the capacity not just to participate in the wider world but reshape it for the better in the future; we develop this capacity through our focus on our learning values. These are: Listening, Curiosity, Imagination, Collaboration, Patience, Courage, Responsibility, Empathy.

We believe in developing future leaders and this is important not just to our school but for the wider education system. We also believe in bringing about change carefully and thoughtfully based on the best available evidence. Most of all however, we believe that ‘culture is impact’ and if we develop a safe, happy, engaging school environment we will develop a legacy of successful, independent and empathetic young people.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday school hours with a day release to Shipley College on a Thursday. Please discuss the hours with the employer at interview. This position is term time only.

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Team working,Creative,Non judgemental,Patience