Job title: Teaching Assistant 
Location: Newcastle 
Start date: Immediate start.  
Position: Full-time. 
Salary or Salary Scale: £80-110 per day 
Must have qualifications or experience: Previous school-based experience is ideal, however working with children in other settings is also desirable.

Introduction

Aquinas Education is actively working with primary schools in Newcastle that are seeking flexible Teaching Assistants to support them on an ongoing basis after the half term.

About the role

Flexible Teaching Assistants for primary schools in Newcastle.

Aquinas Education is looking for Teaching Assistants to work in a number of primary schools in Newcastle, supporting pupils across all ages from early years to key stage 2.

You will provide a high-quality service of support to pupils and classroom assistance to members of the wider school community. Your responsibilities will include:

• Helping children who need extra support to complete tasks.
• Supporting teachers in lesson delivery and managing classroom behaviour.
• Supervising group activities, and leading smaller learning groups.
• Getting the classroom ready for lessons and keeping it clean and tidy for the next day.
• Helping teachers to plan learning activities and carrying out additional administrative tasks.

You should have previous experience working within a school environment, or some understanding of working with children.

Summary

• Immediate start depending on availability
• Newcastle
• Competitive rates
• Flexible teaching assistant positions, with the potential to go long-term/permanent
• Enhanced DBS check essential

How to apply

If you are looking for flexible work within Newcastle primary schools, please send an updated CV via email to James Turner at james@aquinaseducation.co.uk

You can also call 01159 244 788 |  07432 696 261

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We’re recruiting too!

We are always looking for great people across the UK, to become Education Recruitment Consultants. Aquinas Education team is a great place to work. We offer some of the best salaries and the most generous bonus structures around. We also proudly train and promote our team, with all of our office managers around the UK being promoted from within. 

About Aquinas Education

Aquinas Education is a unique education recruitment agency with offices across the UK. We specialise in sourcing, supplying and supporting our supply staff on a personal level, making sure that they share the same objectives and ethos we strive to give in our individual approach. Saint Thomas Aquinas is the Patron Saint of Education, which is where our name originated from.

Our ethos is quite simple; we strongly promote ambition within schools and educational environments. We are ambitious for our pupils, schools, teachers and other educational workers in an ethical and modern setting. We want to promote the positive meaning of the phrase

“to be ambitious”.

Not only do we supply the most competent teachers and support staff around, we also give back to the schools by offering a reward scheme, continued support and the chance for positive role models to visit the schools individually. Working within the education sector we believe schools deliver a very high standard of care and teaching. We endeavour to match these aspirations by providing a highly professional service and the best staff available.

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding. All successful appointments will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a range of other pre-employment recruitment checks.

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