LEVEL 6 CERTIFICATE

Post Graduate Teacher

(Award of QTS and the Level 6 Post Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship)

Primary (including Early Years) and Secondary age phase courses available.
Apprentices receive a salary from your employing school (must be on the unqualified teacher scale)
Fees are paid through your school’s apprenticeship levy
Option to take the PGCE (£1600, paid by the apprentice, not the apprenticeship levy)
Two placements within our local partnership schools
Support of an experienced mentor
Weekly research informed SCITT based subject and pedagogy training

This is a 12-15 month course (July – June) with End-Point Assessment in the term after qualifying.

Entry Requirements

Apprentice teachers need to have a rapport with children, a passion for their subject, and to have the ambition to become excellent teachers. You will have a relentlessly positive outlook, show initiative and be a good team player, ready to work hard in a challenging but wonderfully rewarding profession.

Qualifications Needed

An undergraduate degree, or equivalent. This should be an honours degree (Third Class or above), or equivalent.
If you need to improve your subject knowledge, you may be asked to complete a subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) course.
Grade 4 (C) or above in English and Maths, or equivalent qualification.
Grade 4 (C) or above in Science (Primary Only)

We’ll consider candidates with pending GCSEs. We will not consider candidates who need to take a GCSE equivalency test.

Find out more

For more information, please see government information here.

Apply now

To apply for the Level 6 Post Graduate Teacher apprenticeship, please go directly to the DfE website here.

For Primary 3-7
Which age group do you want to teach? Select 'Primary'.
Primary courses with subject specialisms. Select 'Primary'.
Visa sponsorship. Select 'No'.
From the course lists, select 'St Edmund’s Nursery School & Children’s Centre, Primary (S092)'

For Primary 5-11
Which age group do you want to teach? Select 'Primary'.
Primary courses with subject specialisms. Select 'Primary'.
Visa sponsorship. Select 'No'.
From the course lists, select 'St Edmund’s Nursery School & Children’s Centre, Primary (L960)'

For Secondary
Please ask your employing school to get in touch with us at apprenticeships@bradfordbirthto19.org.