Apprentice Teaching Assistant (Castleward Spencer Academy)
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Company: THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST
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Location: Derby, DE1 2RJ
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Education and early years
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Ref: NAS-2000047173
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Application Deadline Date: 30/08/2026
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Start Date: 21/09/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday to Friday - Term time only (39 weeks a year).
Brief Description
An exciting opportunity to join a warm and friendly primary schools and train as a Teaching Assistant. You will be supporting the class teacher to deliver high quality lessons and provide interventions to small groups of children.
Training to be Provided
- You will work towards the completion of a Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship level 3
- Training will be delivered face-to-face, online and through webinars. The school will provide in-house training
Future Prospects
You could be employed as a Teaching Assistant and progress to become a Learning Mentor or Higher-Level Teaching Assistant.
Vacancy Detail
Working as part of this important team, you will be required to carry out the following duties (the nature of the Academy year requires some tasks to be done regularly whilst others annually):
- Deliver planned activities for individuals and groups to allocated pupils, in small groups or individually, differentiating and adapting learning programmes to suit individual needs (under the professional direction and supervision of a qualified teacher)
- Plan and evaluate specialist learning activities, prepare reports and records for the teacher
- Promote outstanding pupil behaviour for learning and support social and emotional well-being, reporting any problems to the teacher and/or child
- Protection Lead (as appropriate and in line with school policies
- Promote and support the role of parent/carers in pupils’ learning and enabling constructive information sharing about progress and achievement
Other Information
As an employer committed to supporting pathways into education, we are always happy to receive informal enquiries - please don't hesitate to get in touch with the team.