Apprentice Teaching Assistant

Salary FTE £14,566
Actual pro rata salary £12,528
Contract term 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, 18 months

Start date:

As soon as possible
Closing date:
Midnight Sunday 15 March 2026

Mercia Learning Trust is a successful partnership of four primary and three secondary schools located in the south-west of Sheffield. Established in 2012, with one secondary school, our trust has grown to serving over 5000 pupils, with 650 staff.

To empower everyone in our communities, especially the most disadvantaged, to succeed.

• We are kind - showing care and supporting each other.
• We have integrity - doing the right thing and always putting children first.
• We work with diligence - overcoming obstacles and having no excuses.

We run schools that focus on academic excellence, cultural capital and the development of character.

• A culture of excellence – high standards shaped by clarity, not control.
• Academic focus – empowering all children through an exceptional curriculum.
• Purposeful collaboration – relationships built on trust, reducing sub-optimisation and driving collective success.

Our staff are a crucial part of our trust, just like our pupils. We are devoted to recruiting, training, retaining and taking good care of our highly skilled and dedicated team.

Woodlands Primary School is a 2-form entry primary and nursery for children aged 2-11 in a vibrant South Sheffield community. This popular and over-subscribed school has around 500 pupils. In February 2022, Ofsted graded our school as strongly Good.

Woodlands Primary School has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, talented and caring candidate to join our team as an apprentice teaching assistant. This role will be based in Reception.

This role is to work as part of a team of teaching assistants and alongside class teachers to assist with the teaching and support of children in order to provide high quality provision. Some of the children with whom you would be working could have specific needs. These may include autism, ADHD, learning and speech difficulties and/or social, emotional and behavioural needs.

You will be required to understand and support children facing these barriers, alongside working more broadly with a wide range of children.

Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm with a 30 minute unpaid break each day. Term time only. Total hours per week: 37.

You will be working towards your Level 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification. (All learning is delivered online/remote).

• Flexible
• Honest and reliable
• Calm under pressure
• Patient
• Empathetic with young people
• Team player
• High personal and professional standards

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