Teaching Assistant Apprentice
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
About the Role
Launch your career in education with our School Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship. Gain hands-on experience supporting pupils, assisting teachers, and helping create a positive learning environment while earning a qualification.
Develop valuable skills, receive expert mentoring, and make a real difference every day. This is an excellent opportunity for enthusiastic, caring individuals passionate about helping children succeed.
General duties include:
- Supporting teachers in delivering lessons and learning activities.
- Assist pupils individually, in small groups, or across the whole class.
- Helping to prepare and organise classroom resources and learning materials.
- Encouraging pupil engagement, participation, and positive behaviour.
- Providing support to pupils with additional learning needs where required.
- Supervising pupils during classroom activities, break times, breakfast club, after-school clubs and educational visits.
- Assisting with recording pupil progress and maintaining accurate records.
- Helping to create a safe, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment.
- Supporting literacy, numeracy, and other curriculum-based activities.
- Following school policies, including safeguarding, health and safety, and confidentiality requirements.
- Attending training sessions and work towards completing the apprenticeship qualification.
- Communicating effectively with teachers, pupils, parents, and other school staff.
You must be able to travel to and from college and arrive at school in time to start work at 8:15am.
Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week).
The Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage guide is updated every April (ANMW): https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates.
We need to ask all applicants whether they have any relevant criminal convictions and or pending investigation as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Relevant meaning offences
against a person, whether violent or sexual, offences involving drugs or controlled substances, or theft. A declaration of a relevant Criminal Conviction will result in a Risk Assessment being carried out to determine whether the applicant poses a risk to the welfare or safety of others. This does not include warnings, cautions, reprimands and (for example) speeding fines/points.
A YES ANSWER DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDE YOUR APPLICATION.
Upon successful completion of the Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship, learners could progress into a permanent teaching assistant role, specialist support roles, or further study in education. The apprenticeship also provides a strong foundation for careers in teaching, pastoral support, special educational needs (SEND), childcare, youth work, and wider educational settings.
About the Training
Training will be at Doncaster College where you will access a wide range of facilities on offer.
About the Employer
Start your career in education at St Joseph & St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School. Join a nurturing, inclusive community where kindness, respect and curiosity are at the heart of everything we do. Working alongside dedicated staff, you’ll help children thrive while developing your own skills, confidence and future career prospects in a supportive and inspiring environment.
Skills Required
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Interpersonal skills
- Literacy skills
- Empathy
- Honest
- Reliable and conscientious
Training Provider
DN COLLEGES GROUP
Course/Training
Teaching assistant (level 3)