Apprentice Teaching Assistant Level 3

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

Under the guidance of the teaching staff, provide direct support for the learning of individual children or groups of children, to achieve defined progress and targets by:

• Following planning to support activities
• Report behaviour observations to a teacher in order for them to maintain the school’s standard of discipline and behaviour
• Facilitating children’s general physical, emotional and educational development through activities and play
• Supervising and encouraging safe behaviour of individuals and groups
• Reinforcement of structured learning habits and routines which have been defined by the teacher and support access to the curriculum as set by the line manager
• Under the guidance of the teaching staff, prepare, store, retrieve, sort and display materials, finished work, equipment, topic work plans and/or assignment documents to assist in providing an effective learning environment as determined by the teacher to;
• Facilitate the required standards of achievement and performance, including feedback for individuals and groups within the classroom
• Support the development of continuous improvement in both personal performance in the job and the work of the team
• Assist in the monitoring, reviewing and progression of children’s learning
• Gather resources, make resources and return them as set out by the class teacher
• Attend to the day to day needs of children, inside and outside the classroom
• Provision of personal, social, hygiene, welfare and behaviour support
• Awareness of the progress of individual children in attaining defined goals
• Promoting effective pastoral care for individual children, under guidance, and liaising with colleagues to provide accurate records
• Reporting concerns about progress, to the teacher
• Assisting educational and therapeutic professionals in their delivery of specialist support programmes
• Carrying out specified medical care procedures following direct specific training by a qualified practitioner
• Contributing to the assessment by the teacher of individual children’s development  through observation, record keeping, discussion with colleagues and teachers
• To deliver food in the consistency and way suitable for each pupil according to personal meal plans
• To carry out personal care routines with/for pupils across the site (including manual handling).
• So far as reasonably practicable, the postholder must promote safe working practices by employees, and in premises/work areas for which the postholder is responsible, to maintain a safe working environment for employees and service users. These are defined in the Corporate Health, Safety and Welfare policy, departmental policies and codes of practice
• These roles are based at our three various locations

Where you’ll work

Briarwood Special School
Briar Way,
Bristol
BS16 4EA