Psychology Graduate Teaching Assistant

Have you got a Psychology degree? Do you have an interest in working with young people but don’t have the necessary experience? Are you looking for a rewarding role to kickstart your professional career? Well, we want to hear from you!

Teaching Personnel are looking for psychology graduate Teaching Assistants to join our fantastic team within Teaching Personnel! As someone who has developed psychological knowledge, education is a perfect place to put this into practise. Developing those core relationships with both staff and students, initiating plans and working as a team to help develop the mind’s of the students at hand.

We are looking for a handful of graduates for an immediate start to fill both part time and full time positions as well as recruting a whole lot more for the next academic year!!

The roles and responsibilities:

• Helping students with their learning, focusing on their engagement to the learning objectives
• Supervising groups of students, making sure they’re maintaining school values.
• Creating a welcoming and safe environment for the students to work in.
• Developing programmes of social activities to aid behavioural activity.
• Monitoring and recording behaviour and progress
• Working 1:1 and / or groups of students, captivating them with school activities.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a passion for education.
• Be a positive and enthusiastic role model.
• Have drive to progress, constantly improving their practise.
• Be able to build trusting relationships with students and staff
• Have knowledge on the ability of behaviour and how to deal with various social situations.

Our benefits:

• Guaranteed Work Scheme
• A range of online training and CPD, including Team Teach training
• Refer a friend scheme - £50 per referral
• Paid to scale to reflect your responsibilities.
• No umbrella fees that affect your pay
• Personalised support from a specialist consultant who can help find the right role for you

If you’re interested in this opportunity or would like to find out more about our other opportunities, please apply with an up to date version of your CV!

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for 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.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with 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 all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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