Graduate Teaching Assistant

Location: London
Job Type: Permanent
Industry: Secondary Teacher
Reference: GTAEN35PA
Salary: Pay to Scale
Job Published: 9 days ago

Protocol Education is supporting a secondary school in West London to recruit a dedicated and enthusiastic Graduate Teaching Assistant.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate educator to make a real difference in students’ learning, support their academic and personal development, and contribute to both classroom and extracurricular life within a supportive and high-achieving school community.

About the Role

  • Support learning for students through structured academic interventions and one-to-one or small group teaching

  • Assist pupils with special educational needs, including English as an additional language, social-emotional development, and academic skills across core subjects

  • Deliver sessions to support reading, writing, maths, and other areas of student development

  • Contribute to enrichment activities, homework clubs, and school events, including trips, performances, and extracurricular programs

  • Monitor and record pupil progress, supporting teachers and leadership with data collection and intervention tracking

  • Create a positive, calm, and orderly learning environment, promoting high academic and behavioural expectations

  • Collaborate with colleagues, SENCOs, and external professionals to ensure tailored support for individual students

  • Uphold safeguarding standards and actively promote the safety and welfare of all pupils

Role Details

  • Location: West London

  • Contract: Full-time, permanent, term-time only

  • Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00

  • Start Date: September 2025

  • Salary: £22,515–£27,272 depending on experience

What We’re Looking For

  • Degree-level qualification

  • Right to work in the UK

  • Experience building positive and effective relationships with young people

  • Strong literacy, numeracy, and organisational skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with children, staff, and parents

  • Commitment to high standards of pupil behaviour and achievement

  • Experience planning and delivering small group or one-to-one interventions (desirable)

  • Self-motivated, resilient, and dedicated to professional development

  • Willingness to contribute to extracurricular activities, school trips, and enrichment programs

  • A genuine belief in the potential of every student

✨ If you are an enthusiastic and committed Graduate Teaching Assistant who thrives on supporting students to reach their full potential, 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.

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