Primary Teaching Assistant

Excell Supply are currently recruiting for Primary teaching assistants for day to day, short-term and long-term positions within school hours to support Foundation, KS1 & KS2. These roles are on a supply basis so are very flexible to work around your busy life.

Responsibilities and requirements:

• Have the drive and determination to make a difference
• Have high expectations of pupils achievement and behaviour
• Be an excellent and inspirational class practitioner, who demonstrates outstanding classroom practice and who has children at the heart of all they do
• Excellent communication skills
• Recent and relevant experience of working with children
• Excellent numeracy/ literacy skills.
• Excellent behaviour management skills.

To be considered for this role you would need to have:

• Ideally - worked with children in the last 5 years
• Ideally - 1:1 experience
• Ideally - SEN experience
• Ideally - Teaching assistant Level 1, 2 or 3 qualifications
• Essential - The ability to be flexible, show initiative, be reliable, creative, and enthusiastic.
• Essential - Right to work in the UK.
• Essential - DBS Check Required: - Yes (can be gained via Excell Supply if necessary)

Following successful checks, the candidate will be able to start as soon as they are clear for work.

Will accept candidates with no experience but transferable skills.

What to expect from Excell Supply?

• Excellent rates of pay
• Work that you want - we listen to your needs.
• Recommend a Friend Scheme - earn up to £500 per referral
• A designated Account Manager who has strong working relationships with schools in your area
• Opportunity for permanent positions
• Access to a full calendar of CPD opportunities in the form of our Twilight Training Programme and other courses delivered during the school holidays

Excell Supply is a leading educational recruitment specialist working with over 425 schools across North Wales, Cheshire, Powys, Shropshire, Warrington and Wirral, for the last 10 years. We are proud of our outstanding reputation for providing the best possible service to our schools using a personable and consultative approach. We are a growing company filled with passionate and lively people with the attributes required to not only do the job but do it so well that clients and candidates keep coming back giving high levels of repeat business. Our commitment to NQTs is outstanding with 1-1, group and face to face support. Our account managers are knowledgeable, approachable and invested in finding you the right opportunities, we are members of the REC and NPS framework for Wales.

As members of the REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) and Umbrella body to the DBS, (Disclosure & Barring Service) Excell Supply is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children. All applicants will be subject to thorough employment checks and must have an Enhanced DBS on the Update Service certificate in place. Candidates without an Enhanced DBS on the Update Service will have to apply for a new one.

If you believe you have the skills required for this role, please apply now. If you haven t heard from us within two weeks of the vacancy closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Important Notice In order to apply for the above position all applicants must be eligible to work in the UK, or eligible to apply for a relevant work visa. Excell Supply are unable to offer a work permit to any applicant or facilitate work permits for any vacancy on behalf of one of its clients. It is Excell Supply s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted, you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful, and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future.

Excell Supply is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.