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Secondary Teaching Assistant

Job Posted: 7 days ago

Salary: £ 98 - 126 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Gateshead

Expire in: 21 days

Job Description

Secondary Teaching Assistant | Literacy & Behaviour Support | Gateshead

Want a Teaching Assistant role where you can genuinely get involved?

Protocol Education is looking for an enthusiastic Secondary Teaching Assistant to join a specialist school in Gateshead from September.

This is a particularly good opportunity for someone who enjoys working closely with young people and has the confidence to get involved both inside and outside of the classroom.

The school has high expectations for its students and places a strong emphasis on literacy, academic achievement and positive relationships.

Role Details

Full-time
September start
Monday-Friday
8:30am-4:30pm
Term-time only
Long-term role with permanent opportunities

What makes this role different?

You'll be much more than classroom support.

You'll be expected to actively participate in school life, including:

Joining students during breakfast club
Supporting students during lunch
Getting involved in social activities
Building relationships through positive interactions
Supporting learning within lessons
Helping students improve their reading and writing
Providing feedback on students' work
Encouraging students to stay focused
The school has a strong focus on literacy, so you'll play an important role in helping students improve their spelling, written communication and confidence with reading and writing.

We're looking for:

A confident and outgoing personality
Someone who naturally builds rapport
Strong communication skills
A positive attitude
Ability to maintain professional boundaries
Resilience and patience
Genuine enthusiasm for working with teenagers
Whether you're an experienced TA or have transferable experience from youth work, sport, care, mentoring or another people-focused role, we'd love to hear from you.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further 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.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the 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 FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

Full assistance provided. For details of our privacy policy, please see visit the Protocol Education website

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