CACHE Level 3 Teaching Assistant & SEN Certificate

CACHE Level 3 Teaching Assistant (RQF) Recognised Qualification & SEN Certificate Course.

*A placement in a school is NOT required in order to study and complete this qualification*

Units Covered Within Your Teaching Assistant Qualification:

Teaching Assistant Unit 1 – Schools and Colleges as Organisations

Learner Outcomes:

Understand the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education

Understand how schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities

Understand teamwork in schools and colleges

Understand educational ethos, mission, aims and values

Understand the purpose of policies and procedures in education

Teaching Assistant Unit 2 – Support Health and Safety in a Learning Environment

Learner Outcomes:

Understand hot to plan and provide environments that support children and young people’s health and safety

Understand how to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits

Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves

Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits

Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication

Teaching Assistant Unit 3 – Understand how Children and Young People Develop

Learner Outcomes:

Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years

Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice

Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern

Teaching Assistant Unit 4 – Understand how to Safeguard Children and Young People

Learner Outcomes:

Understand legislation guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people

Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people

Understand the need to ensure children and young people’s safety and protection in the learning environment

Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed

Understand how to work with children and young people to support their well-being

The Teaching Assistant Qualification

Teaching Assistant Qualification reference number – 603/2495/8

Credit Value - 12

Full recruitmnent support is given to all learners passing their qualifications, to help them find jobs within Primary & Secondary schools across the UK

Teaching Assistant Assessment Process:

Assessments are a great way of checking your progress allowing you to apply your learning to real-world situations. Through the Teaching Assistant Level 3 (RQF) Course by NCFE CACHE, you will be assessed by a series of written assignments, which are submitted to and marked by your tutor.

All assignments are set by NCFE CACHE. Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by NCFE, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the teaching assistant course.

Please note: There is no examination required for this teaching assistant qualification course.

What's included with the qualification?

You will have access to a qualified 1-2-1 tutor throughout your teaching assistant qualification, via email, who will mark your work and guide you through your teaching assistant course to help you prepare for your assignments. You will be guided throughout your qualification study via our Learner Management System (LMS), this makes learning as simple as possible. Full tutor support will be given throughout your qualification level 3 course on a 1-2-1 basis to ensure your learning outcomes are met to a satisfactory standard.

Study Time

Study Hours are an approximate figure and are dependent upon how much time you can dedicate to your teaching assistant studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. You should allow enough time to complete assignments/ question papers to ensure satisfactory outcomes are met.

The approximate amount of time required to complete the Teaching Assistant course is: 120 hrs