Job description
Teaching Assistant
Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Start Date: January 2025
Contract: Long term
Salary: £94 – £115 per day
Are you an experienced Teaching Assistant looking for a new challenge?
Seeking to launch your career in the Education sector as a recent Graduate?
If so, GSL Education would like to hear from you right away!
GSL Education South Yorkshire are urgently seeking to hire an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant for a long term role starting January 2025 on behalf of our client school in Doncaster. This is a fantastic opportunity for recent Graduates or aspiring Teaching Assistants looking to expand their range of expertise into a promising role within Secondary division.
The ideal candidate must abide by the following objectives:
- To retain genuine interest to work in schools and support young people overcome any barriers to learning.
- To provide tailored support to the class teacher in the delivery of a creative curriculum, outdoor curriculum, or play-based learning curriculum.
- To provide social, emotional, and academic support on a 1:1 and small group basis, if required.
- To work in partnership with other support staff, teachers, and outside agencies to ensure each child receives the best education and support.
- To track progress and developmental markers.
Essential requirements for the job role:
- Have sound knowledge or hands-on experience of supporting people with additional needs, learning difficulties, social, emotional, and mental health needs or speech, language, and communication needs; or be willing to work with such pupils.
- Be a flexible, dynamic, and reliable practitioner.
- Have strong regard for the student's well-being (both emotional and physical) and a positive approach towards working with children in order to inspire, engage and motivate them.
- Have an understanding of how to build rapport and positive relationships with students.
- Possess an enhanced DBS registered to the Update Service, or be willing to apply for one. DBS sponsorship is available on conditional basis.
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks, including a valid DBS on the Update Service.
To apply for the role of Teaching Assistant in Doncaster, please get in touch with Sam Scott at GSL Education, or submit an up-to-date CV via the application link.