Looking to gain valuable education experience before progressing your career in social work, family support or safeguarding?

Protocol Education is recruiting a full-time Social Work Graduate Teaching Assistant to support pupils within a specialist SEMH provision in West Denton.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work closely with vulnerable young people, helping them overcome barriers to education while developing experience that directly complements a future career in social work and children's services.

Why work with Protocol Education?

We work with specialist schools that value professionals with a strong understanding of child development, safeguarding and wellbeing.

You'll receive:

• Weekly PAYE pay, with no umbrella companies
• FREE access to our CPD Academy
• SEND, SEMH and Safeguarding training
• Dedicated consultant support
• Long-term opportunities
• Career progression guidance
• Ongoing wellbeing support

What you'll be doing

• Supporting pupils with additional needs
• Promoting emotional wellbeing
• Building trusted relationships with learners
• Encouraging positive engagement in education
• Supporting behaviour management strategies
• Working alongside pastoral teams
• Delivering targeted interventions
• Acting as a positive role model

What we're looking for

You'll be empathetic, resilient and committed to improving outcomes for young people.

Who this role would suit

• Social Work Graduates
• Family Support Workers
• Youth Workers
• Learning Mentors
• Behaviour Support Workers
• Psychology Graduates

Apply today and gain invaluable experience supporting vulnerable young people in education.

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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