Teaching Assistant SEND Apprenticeship

SEND Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Princes Primary School

Princes Primary School

Liverpool (L8 1YQ) Selborne Street, Liverpool, L8 1YQ

Salary: £8 per hour

Training course: Teaching assistant Level 3 SEND – 16 month duration

Hours: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30am-4:30pm. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:30am-3:30pm.

(34 hours a week)

Start date: Friday 26 June 2026

Positions available: 3

Summary

You will work towards completing a level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship.

Applicants must have experience and a keen interest in working with SEND children as you will provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum.

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

- To provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum and to provide feedback to the teacher on pupil progress with objectives and tasks.

- To assist with the timely preparation of resources, activities and the teaching environment, ensuring pupil safety. This may include preparing materials to meet individual pupil's needs.

- To clear up after activities, ensuring displays are kept safe and tidy.

- To assist in the development of Individual Education Plans and to help pupils advance towards outcomes on the EHCP and to provide feedback on progress.

- To assist in implementing and reviewing agreed programmes of work and highlight any concerns to the classroom teacher.

- To implement agreed behaviour management strategies to promote positive behaviour.

- To support therapists and pupils before, during and following therapy sessions and to assist with therapies as required.

- To provide opportunities for pupils to experience a variety of play environments that stimulate them and provide opportunities for risk, challenge and personal growth.

- To support pupils to participate as inclusively as possible in all activities.

- To help pupils manage their own feelings and relationships with others.

- To provide support to pupils’ general welfare, including emergency First Aid, feeding, toileting and changing their clothes as instructed to ensure they are clean, tidy and comfortable.

- To be familiar with pupils’ care plans and provide care, encouragement and maintain dignity.

- To assist with monitoring of physical wellbeing, including pupils’ eating habits, to support the development of pupils’ independence.

- To support pupils’ emotional wellbeing, self-reliance, self-esteem and resilience.

- To assist in intimate care as required.

- To assist in the administration of medication to pupils as required and in accordance with their Care Plan and legal guidelines.

- To organise and supervise off-site activities and maintain the health and safety of pupils when outside the school setting.

- To assist in the supervision of pupils during break and lunchtimes and in the use of school transport.

- To provide support for communication and interaction needs, including facilitating communication for pupils who use augmentative or alternative means of communication.

- To support pupils and their families for whom English is an additional language (EAL).

- To establish and maintain effective communication with parents, carers and families about the care and education of their children through Class Dojo, Xpress, review meetings and phone calls.

Skills

- Communication skills

- IT skills

- Attention to detail

- Organisation skills

- Problem solving skills

- Presentation skills

- Administrative skills

- Number skills

- Analytical skills

- Logical

- Team working

- Creative

- Initiative

- Non judgemental

- Patience

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