Join Our Team as a Skills Coach (Teaching Assistant / Specialist Teaching Assistant)
Can you demonstrate comprehensive occupational competency in a Teaching Assistant and Specialist Teaching Assistant role, including strategies for supporting learners with diverse abilities, fostering inclusive learning environments, and promoting safeguarding and professional development?
Do you have expertise in specialist areas, such as SEND, emotional well-being, EAL, and subject-specific interventions, ensuring apprentices can address varied educational needs effectively?
We’re seeking a dedicated Skills Coach to deliver high-quality teaching, training, and mentoring to our learners.
What You’ll Do:
Empower Learners: Coach and support learners in their workplace to achieve their apprenticeship goals.
Engage and Inspire: Work closely with employers and learners to deliver engaging and impactful teaching.
Tailored Support: Provide individualised support to ensure every learner has the opportunity to succeed.
Key Responsibilities:
Meet Targets: Achieve KPIs for starts, progression, timely achievement, and customer satisfaction.
Deliver Excellence: Provide qualifications across various programmes, ensuring compliance with quality standards.
Innovate and Improve: Collaborate with teams to continuously enhance the quality of our programmes.
What We’re Looking For:
Experience and knowledge of delivering apprenticeship standards
Experience delivering digital skills, maths, and English, with a strong grasp of training and assessment delivery.
Flexibility a willingness to travel and work across different locations as required.
Essential Skills:
Demonstratable up-to-date occupational competence in Teaching Assistant and Specialist Teaching Assistant apprenticeships.
Self-management for effective management of workload and caseload.
Relationship management to develop and maintain productive relationships with your Team, Management, Learners and all key stakeholders.
Essential Qualifications:
D32/33/A1 equivalent.
L3 AET
L2 Functional Skills in Maths and English
Occupational competence in Teaching Assistant & specialist Teaching Assistant apprenticeships.
Join us in making a real difference, apply today and help us develop the next generation of professionals!
Additional Information Salary: up to £30,000.00 per annum depending on experience Location: Hybrid – with travel across the Midlands and Manchester Contract: Permanent. Hours: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:30 Benefits: Up to 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + your Birthday Day off; Long service award; 5 days paid sick leave per year; Employee referral scheme; Sabbatical Leave; Season ticket loan policy; Pension contributions; Career development opportunities; 2 volunteering days per year; ability to purchase additional annual leave; Death in service benefit; Employee Assistance Programme.
Please Note: The successful candidate must be able to work in the UK. Twin is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake a standard or an enhanced disclosure via the DBS, depending on the role itself.
All gaps in CVs must be explained satisfactorily.
Proof of identity and qualifications will be required.
Successful candidates will be required to complete a one-hour on-line safeguarding training prior to commencing employment.
We are dedicated to ensuring that all job applicants and members of staff are treated equally, without discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
Disability Confident Employer Disabled applicants should indicate in the Equality of Opportunity section of the application form if they wish their application to be given consideration under the Disability Confident scheme. If you are invited to interview, please advise the recruitment administrator what adjustment you would require at the interview in as much detail as possible to enable arrangements to be put into place. We ask all applicants if they want to be considered under this scheme. By opting-in to this scheme, you are disclosing that you have a disability solely for the purpose of the interview guarantee and we will not assume nor infer that you wish to disclose or record your disability in any other way – including any reasonable adjustments you may need if you are employed.
Access to Work Scheme You can apply for Access to Work if you need support to get back to work. You can apply using the online service or apply by phoning Jobcentre Plus on: Telephone: 0800 121 7479 or Textphone: 0800 121 7579
