Secondary Teaching Assistant

Protocol Education; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Protocol Education seeks a proactive Secondary Teaching Assistant to join a specialist school in Gateshead from September. The role focuses on literacy and behaviour support, with duties that span classroom assistance and broader school activities.

The ideal candidate will enjoy working with teenagers, build rapport quickly, and contribute to a positive, focused learning environment. This is a full-time, term-time position with potential for permanence.

Qualifications

• Confident, outgoing personality suitable for engaging with teenage students.
• Ability to build rapport with students, staff and families.
• Excellent communication skills in person and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Support literacy-focused activities and reading/writing development.
• Engage with students during breakfast, lunch and social activities.
• Provide feedback on student work and track progress.
• Maintain professional boundaries while contributing to school life.

Skills

Confident & outgoing

Rapport building

Strong communication

Positive attitude

Professional boundaries

Resilience & patience

Teen engagement

Job description

Secondary Teaching Assistant | Literacy & Behaviour Support | Gateshead

Want a Teaching Assistant role where you can genuinely get involved?

Protocol Education is looking for an enthusiastic Secondary Teaching Assistant to join a specialist school in Gateshead from September.

This is a particularly good opportunity for someone who enjoys working closely with young people and has the confidence to get involved both inside and outside of the classroom.

The school has high expectations for its students and places a strong emphasis on literacy, academic achievement and positive relationships.

Role Details

• Full-time
• September start
• Monday-Friday
• 8:30am-4:30pm
• Term-time only
• Long-term role with permanent opportunities

What makes this role different?

You'll be much more than classroom support.

You'll be expected to actively participate in school life, including:

• Joining students during breakfast club
• Supporting students during lunch
• Getting involved in social activities
• Building relationships through positive interactions
• Supporting learning within lessons
• Helping students improve their reading and writing
• Providing feedback on students' work
• Encouraging students to stay focused

The school has a strong focus on literacy, so you'll play an important role in helping students improve their spelling, written communication and confidence with reading and writing.

We’re looking for:

• A confident and outgoing personality
• Someone who naturally builds rapport
• Strong communication skills
• A positive attitude
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries
• Resilience and patience
• Genuine enthusiasm for working with teenagers

Whether you're an experienced TA or have transferable experience from youth work, sport, care, mentoring or another people-focused role, 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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