Questions about teachers assistants...

Well, I was looking at Teaching Assistant positions when I completed my CACHE Level 2.

The pay depends on which area of Britain you're in but I've seen them advertised from 8 or 9 k a year up to 11 or 12, a bit more for London if you're lucky. Nursery Nurse jobs appear to be a lot more common in London than TAs - for that level of qualification etc.

I am watching this thread with interest as it is something I am very interested in - what is CACHE NannyClaire?

I am doing ta work at a special needs school in the south east and i earn £50per day as supply or about 8k/9k as perm. You might find that alot of school will employ you for one term only or as a fixed for a year role.

The perm/term jobs pay 20 days holiday only.

I love my job but its very hard work. Very rewarding though

I think ours get about £200 a week but this is only termly pay.

What I mean by Nursery Nurse is someone who works in a Nursery as opposed to a school! I mentioned it as they were two options available to me with the level of qualification I have.

CACHE is the new name for the NNEB www.cache.org.uk It stands for Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (so why CACHE and not CACCE I don't know!) As Cache, they offer lots of different courses ranging from Introduction to..., through Level 2 (equivalent to 10 GCSEs I think) and Level 3 (equivalent to A levels) and onwards.

I hold the Level 2 Certificate, which allows me to practise in a variety of settings but under supervision. So, I'm technically underqualified as a nanny but would be fine as a Teaching Assistant as long as the Teacher is present in the classroom with me, or a Nursery Nurse reporting to a room leader or supervisor. Hence comparing the two jobs, they are a similar level.

I'm guessing if you are a registered Childminder then you've done the training which would be the equivalent of Level 3 at least! Which'd mean you're more valuable in either post as you're legally allowed to care for children without a "superior" being present.

Whenever I've been jobhunting (which I am at the moment) there are lots of positions available in nurseries and daycare and TA is rarer.

Select Education handle a lot of TA positions and they'd be able to tell you about the pay, etc. I think it does really depend on the school and length of the contract as jellyjelly said..... I guess you could try speaking to some other Education specialist agencies to get an idea and a clearer answer to your question!

ont he subject of qualifications. I have done over 20 childminding courses but would have to get nvq2 and 3 before i could class myself as a nursery nurse. Bugger

Ooh a lot of places round here accept "assistant" nursery nurses with a Level 2.
Thank goodness cos I'm going for a trial day on Monday

Whenever I've spoken to the council etc about my training options they always told me that you need Level 3 to register as a Childminder, I didn't realise there were ways to register without doing one - NVQ or CACHE Diploma....