Teaching Assistant (Phonics Support)

We’re working with lovely primary schools across central Bristol who are on the lookout for confident, enthusiastic Phonics Specialists to support pupils with early reading and literacy development.

This is flexible, part-time work that can fit around your schedule, perfect if you want a better work-life balance without stepping away from the classroom completely.

You’ll be helping children build confidence with reading, blending, segmenting, and all those little lightbulb moments that make phonics such a rewarding area to support. Some pupils just need a boost. Others need someone patient, creative, and encouraging to help things click. That’s where you come in.

Driving is preferred for this role, as you may be supporting different schools across Bristol and surrounding areas.

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering phonics interventions and small group support
• Supporting early reading and literacy development
• Working alongside teachers to reinforce phonics schemes
• Encouraging pupil confidence and engagement
• Helping create positive, supportive learning environments

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Have experience supporting phonics in a primary setting
• Understand schemes such as Read Write Inc, Little Wandle, or Letters and Sounds
• Are energetic, patient, and confident working with young learners
• Can build strong relationships quickly
• Hold a driving licence and have access to a car, preferred but not essential

What you’ll get:

• Flexible work to suit your availability
• Friendly, welcoming primary schools
• Weekly PAYE pay, no umbrella company faff
• FREE access to our online CPD Academy
• Ongoing support from a dedicated consultant
• Opportunities to build experience across a range of schools

Thrive training is becoming a huge bonus for support staff in primary settings. If you’re not Thrive trained yet, Protocol Education can help you access FREE Thrive training to strengthen your classroom toolkit and boost your CV.

Important things to know:

To work through Protocol Education, you’ll need:

• An enhanced DBS on the Update Service, or willingness to apply for one
• Two professional references covering the past two years
• The right to work in the UK

If helping children crack reading confidence sounds like your kind of day, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and let’s find flexible work that fits around your life and makes a real difference in the classroom.

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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