Teaching Assistants
First Class Supply and Training have built and maintained an excellent reputation across the north east for fulfilling the needs of local nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools, and further education establishments, and for ensuring our teaching assistants secure work which is suitable for both their needs and experience.
All of our teaching assistants have a registration appointment, not only to complete the vetting process and requirements to work within UK nurseries and schools, but to listen to you and understand how you would like us to support you in your search for teaching assistant work. It is important to us that you feel confident, effective, and valued whilst on assignments.
We can offer you work in nurseries working with babies or age 0-3, in primary schools in any of Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, or Year 6, in middle schools with Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, or Year 8, in secondary schools with Key Stage 3, or Key Stage 4, or in further education working with post 16 students.
Opportunities are also available to work within a range of special needs schools and units. You may be an experienced special needs teaching assistant, be a qualified teaching assistant with a desire to gain SEN experience, or have other relevant knowledge or experience of working with SEN pupils. We can offer placements to work with pupils with a range of special educational needs including: EBD – emotional and behavioural difficulties, MLD – moderate learning difficulties, PMLD – profound and multiple learning difficulties, AUT – autism, PH – physically handicapped, HI – hearing impaired, VI – visually impaired, and EAL – English as an additional language.
As a leading local agency, we have the flexibility to pay to scale, and always endeavour to ensure that our teaching assistants are recognized and rewarded for their experience and skills. Your individual pay rate will be discussed at your registration appointment, and we are confident that you will find this more competitive than most other local and national agencies!
First Class offer teaching assistant vacancies to suit all your needs. Maybe you are looking for full time or part time work, day to day, short term, or long term work. If you are looking for permanent work, it is not uncommon for a nursery or school to offer you a contract or permanent role after you have completed a period of supply work. For this we will not charge a fee to them, something which most other agencies use as a barrier to prevent you from accepting permanent employment. We strive to look after our teaching assistants and will support you in any way we can if you are hoping to find permanent work.
What Our Teachers Say About Us
“Thank you for your warm professionalism. You were so kind to me.”
“To be honest, if it hadn’t been for you, I would have given up supply teaching a year ago!”
“You are so friendly and helpful. Thank you for helping me feel more confident in my teaching”.
