Teaching Assistant Level 3 Apprenticeship - Ark Tindal

During your time as a Teaching Assistant Apprentice, you will be part of a team delivering highly effective teaching and learning to ensure that pupils achieve the excellent academic results of which they are capable. You will be a role-model both in the Academy and for the community, having impact in school and beyond.

Your day-to-day duties will include:

• Support all vulnerable children and act as Key Worker to pupils with Special Educational Needs
• Work with pupils on an individual and/or small group basis, in and out of lessons
• Plan and implement strategies to ensure pupils with Special Educational Needs are able to access the curriculum
• Develop resources for pupils with SEN
• Support staff members in creating an effective and safe learning environment, by following risk assessments, personal evacuation plans and school policy and procedure
• Work with teachers to assess the needs of individual children, implement Education, Health and Care Plans, School Support
• Provision Plans, Individual Learning Plans, Pupil Passports and Individual Behaviour Plans and monitor their use and effectiveness
• Follow advice given by professionals to tailor the curriculum to meet the needs of pupils with Special Educational Needs
• Deliver language programmes, as advised by Speech and Language Therapists, to enhance early language and communication skills
• Provide structured daily opportunities for turn taking, use of objects of reference and task analysis to ensure tasks are broken down and there is opportunity for over learning
• Support pupils with Special Education Needs with self- help skills and toileting
• Ensure the safety of pupils who, due to Special Educational Needs, may lack an awareness of danger
• Support pupils on an individual and/or small group basis at break and lunchtimes, both when eating and in the playground with appropriate activities