Teaching Assistant
Listed on 2026-10-18
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Education / Teaching
Teacher Assistant/ Paraprofessional, Elementary School, Special Needs / Learning Disabilities
Location: Peterlee Area
Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 4:00pm | Friday 8:30am - 3:00pm
Contract: Full-Time
Are you passionate about supporting young people to achieve their full potential?
We are currently recruiting a dedicated 1:1 Teaching Assistant to support a student within a welcoming and supportive school in the Peterlee area. This role would suit someone who is patient, nurturing, and able to build strong professional relationships.
The Role- Providing dedicated 1:1 support throughout the school day
- Supporting learning activities both inside and outside of the classroom
- Encouraging engagement, confidence, and independence
- Assisting with emotional regulation and wellbeing
- Working closely with teaching staff and parents
- Monitoring progress and providing feedback to the wider team
- Calm and patient approach
- Strong communication skills
- Able to build trust with students
- Resilient and adaptable
- Experience in schools, care, support work, or youth work is desirable
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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