Early Years Teaching Assistant

Are you preparing to graduate and looking for paid classroom experience before securing a permanent teaching role?

This inclusive Gateshead primary school is welcoming university students into its Early Years team as Teaching Assistants. You choose your availability, gain structured classroom exposure, and build essential skills before beginning teacher training or your ECT year.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting Reception or Nursery classes

• Assisting with early phonics and communication

• Providing small group or 1:1 support

• Helping manage behaviour routines

• Preparing engaging learning resources

• Observing lesson delivery and assessment

What’s in Place

• Experienced EYFS teachers

• Clear routines and safeguarding systems

• Supportive TA team

• Flexible scheduling

• Opportunity for long-term progression

Ideal For

• Final-year Primary students

• PGCE trainees

• Graduates awaiting QTS

• Aspiring Early Years teachers

What You Gain

• Weekly pay

• Flexible working pattern

• Classroom experience before interviews

• Increased confidence

• Potential route into teaching or permanent TA work

Start building your professional experience in a supportive Gateshead primary school today.

Apply now to secure this flexible Early Years Teaching Assistant role.

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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