Early Years Teaching Assistant

Part-Time or Full-Time Options | Paid School Experience

Are you about to graduate and looking for flexible, paid work in a primary school to build your experience before applying for permanent teaching roles?

This supportive Gateshead primary school is seeking an Early Years Teaching Assistant to join their Nursery or Reception team. The role is designed to fit around university commitments, giving you hands-on classroom exposure without overwhelming your schedule.

Your Responsibilities Could Include

• Supporting Reception or Nursery pupils

• Delivering small group phonics activities

• Assisting with language and social development

• Supporting behaviour routines and transitions

• Preparing learning resources

• Observing high-quality teaching practice

What You’ll Gain

• Weekly pay

• Flexible working hours

• Practical EYFS classroom experience

• Strong professional references

• Exposure to planning and assessment

• Confidence before starting ECT

Ideal Candidate

• Final-year university student

• Trainee teacher

• Education, Psychology or Child Development student

• Aspiring Primary or Early Years teacher

Why Apply?

• Choose part-time or full-time work

• Earn while gaining experience

• Build classroom management skills

• Opportunity to progress into teacher training

Apply today to begin gaining valuable Early Years experience in Gateshead.

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.

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