Teaching Assistant

Taunton – Teaching Assistants

Teaching Personnel are looking for Teaching Assistants in the Taunton and surrounding area for the upcoming September Term. Whether you’re an experienced Level 2 qualified Teaching Assistant looking to take control of your own diary and work around your schedule. Or you’re someone with no experience looking for a career change and wanting to move into the education sector. Teaching Personnel can cater for all educators and the level you are at in your educational career.

About Teaching Personnel

Since 1996, hundreds of thousands of teachers and classroom support staff have chosen Teaching Personnel to help them find work in UK classrooms. Our mission across all our services is simple - we strive to make a difference every day through staffing, tutoring and supply. We commit to quality, always aiming to provide the best services, the best candidates, and the best value. As the leading agency in the market, we want to deliver exceptional service to schools and job seekers.  This means ensuring we always have the best branch staff in the right locations to meet our customers' staffing needs and career goals. We are committed to being experts at what we do. We achieve this by training our staff to understand the school’s market and the importance of fulfilling the unique requirements of each partner school. Teaching Personnel has also been named as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service's framework. Crown Commercial Service (CCS) supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services.

What we offer…

• Generous rates of pay.
• Full support and access to courses and learning materials
• Teaching Personnel app to help manage bookings and book time off you require.
• Flexible working days/hours
• Pension scheme
• TP Tokens – supporting national children and educator charities through your direction.
• Reduced DBS cost (If you require it)
• Weekly pay

What we need from you...

• Must be a UK resident.
• Have relevant documentation and ID (Can help you through the options)
• Have a valid DBS on the Update Service (We can help you obtain this)
• Have valid referencing over the last 2 years.
• Previous experience (Desired but not essential)
• Up to date CV
• Passion for working and helping children.

Main duties include…

• getting the classroom ready for lessons.
• listening to children read, reading to them, or telling them stories.
• helping children who need extra support to complete tasks.
• helping teachers to plan learning activities and complete records.
• supporting teachers in managing class behaviour.

Hourly Rate: £12 - £14.50 (Depending on experience and qualifications)

Apply now and a consultant will be in touch that next working day!

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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