Teaching Assistant SEND Apprenticeship

Teaching Assistant SEND Level 3 Apprenticeship – Manchester Communication Primary Academy

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual to join Manchester Communication's Primary Academy. As a Teaching Assistant Apprentice, you will gain many new skills to help you develop throughout the apprenticeship. If you are looking to start a career apply now

Key Details

Salary: £7.55 per hour

Working hours: Monday to Friday 8:00am – 16:00pm (term time only) 37.5 hours per week – hours may differ

Location:

49 Parkstead Drive, Harpurhey, Greater Manchester, M9 5QN

Apprenticeship Details - 16 months expected duration to complete, working towards your Level 3 Teaching Assistant SEND Pathway Qualification. (All learning is delivered online/ remote).

Training Provider: LMP Education (rated 1st best UK training provider)

Duties
During your time as a Teaching Assistant Apprentice, you will undertake education support duties and assist the class teacher in the day-to-day needs of the pupils in their care, to enable the teacher to implement the curriculum and respond to the pupils' needs. Your day-to-day duties will include:

• To be a key worker for a group of identified children, under teacher supervision
• To deliver phonics/reading to a group of children
• 1-1 with SEND children
• To work with the teacher in lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans as appropriate to meet the individual needs of the students
• Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve the learning goals.
• Contribute to the development of learning and assessment materials
• To implement agreed learning activities/assessments, adjusting activities according to student need
• Monitor and celebrate children's learning, progress and achievement and record and report upon progress, including details on attendance, behaviour, development and additional needs
• Supervise and provide support for pupils, including those with special needs ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
• Always promote good behaviour
• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education, Health and Care Plans
• To maintain a positive attitude, seeking to bring out the best in learners and having high expectations for all
• Establish positive relationships with parents/carers, ensuring parental involvement in learning and progress
• To contribute to the organisation of the learning environment and creation of resources
• Constantly strive to improve own performance and identify areas for self - improvement, attending appropriate training
• To support the running of school with a break and lunch duty.
• To evaluate and track the impact of specialist provision and interventions.
• To provide at least 1 high quality after school club per week.
• Embed literacy and numeracy across the curriculum.
• Deliver a Singapore style approach to mastery mathematics.

Desired Skills

• Achieved GCSE grade C/4 or above in English & Maths
• Experience of the role of a TA (paid or voluntary)
• Good working knowledge of the national curriculum
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Good administrative, organisational and computer skills
• Competent with computers and other technology

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiastic, and have an interest in working with children
• A team player
• Reliable, committed, and punctual
• Professional, organised, and attention to detail
• Confidence in your own ability to want to learn and develop

About The Employer
Our school is an incredible community, made up of a fantastically diverse range of pupils, families and colleagues. Together, we work hard to ensure that all of our children achieve the very best that they can. This is achieved through excellent teaching and learning, deep social impact through innovative family support models, and a well-embedded whole school approach to nurture.

Our Approach Is Underpinned By The 6 Principles Of Nurture, Which Ensure That We Always Place The Child And Their Best Interests At The Centre Of Any Decision Making

• Children's learning is understood developmentally
• The classroom offers a safe base
• The importance of nurture for the development of wellbeing
• Language is a vital means of communication
• All behaviour is communication
• The importance of transition in children's lives

The curriculum at MCPA has been thoughtfully constructed to ensure that it develops pupils socially, in addition to their knowledge and skills in a broad and balanced range of subjects. The sequencing of our curriculum is informed by evidence and ensures that powerful prior knowledge is used to underpin learning. The result of this is that our children do well, and go on to achieve great things and learning can transition seamlessly to Manchester Communication Academy.

As part of the Greater Manchester Academies Trust, we are able to shape the learning journey of children from the age of 3, all the way to adulthood - from cradle to career.