Trainee Teaching Assistant
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Teaching Personnel are looking for Teaching Assistants to work in our fantastic Schools.
- If you’re looking to start your career as a teaching assistant and work within an educational setting, then join Teaching Personnel!
- If you are a recent graduate or a final year student and are looking for some day to day or even full time work then please get in touch!
- You will need to be motivated and enthusiastic to working with Children with special educational needs and are passionate about their learning.
The type of students you’ll be mentoring can vary in needs; some students may have Social Emotional Mental Health difficulties, in which they will have challenging behaviour.
Or you could be working with students who may be on the Autism Spectrum and need specific one to one support, or who may be non verbal and need personal care for them too.
You:
- A Child workforce DBS on the update service, we can guide you through the process of this if you do not have one already.
- Enthusiastic and Flexible to work in different environments with a differing type of needs of the pupils
- Ideally holds a UK driving licence
- Previous experience of SEN would be advantageous
In return, as an agency we offer:
- Our relationships with local schools provide access to a wealth of teaching opportunities in Primary, Secondary and SEN schools.
- You will have your very own specialist Recruitment Consultant dedicated to finding you work.
- Access to our CPD academy - numerous courses to help your learning development such as Team Teach.
- Competitive pay rate - we care about all our teachers and so ensure we offer you a fair and competitive rate.
- No Fees - We make it easy for our teachers to transition from us to a contract with a school because we do not charge the schools any fees to take you onto contract!
- Flexibility - One extremely useful benefit of securing your long term role through us is that it allows you to go into a school and decide whether it is the right one for you before fully committing to the entire academic year
- Refer a Friend Scheme - financial benefits for every friend that joins us
- Weekly Pay - you will be paid weekly directly into your bank account
If you are interested in this role and would like to be considered, please apply via the link.
We also have a range of roles that may interest you, working in local primary schools around Bristol, Bath, North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Teaching Personnel have placed many Teacher and Teaching Assistants into temporary-to-permanent opportunities as well as receiving many supply requests if you are seeking more flexible work opportunities.
Please feel free to send across your CV to myself via email –
hope.joy-smith@teachingpersonnel.com or call 0117 92000 40 and speak to the our specialist recruitment consultants in our Primary, Secondary & SEN teams.
Alternatively, if you would like one of our specialists to call then please visit our website, where there is an opportunity to register your details.
We look forward to hearing from you.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see teachingpersonnel.com/faqs 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
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