Graduate Teaching Assistant

Role: Graduate Teaching Assistant

Location: Camden

Pay rate: Up to £600 per week

Start date: September 2025

Are you a recent performing arts or sports graduate with a passion to support the upcoming generation and gain hands-on experience working in the education sector?

Horizon Teachers are seeking driven graduates who are looking for experience in teaching and educational practice within our Primary schools across London. Applicants are welcome to apply from any subject specialism including Drama, Sport, and Creative Arts.

The successful candidate will:

1. Work alongside the class teacher to prepare daily work for students, put up displays, and assist as required within the classroom.
2. Ideally offer games and coaching skills in one or more major sports and creative subjects including drama, football, and basketball.
3. Take responsibility for guided reading with students daily, updating reading records, completing the reading progress book fortnightly, and monitoring that they are reading books appropriate to their level.
4. Maintain discipline in accordance with school policies at all times and encourage a positive behaviour and approach to school life.
5. Ensure all safeguarding practices are followed in line with the school's policy, and all incidents are recorded and up to date.
6. Supervise students during lessons, breaks, and other school activities, ensuring a safe and positive learning environment.

Why Horizon Teachers:

1. We offer our support staff the highest rates up to £600 per week!
2. Horizon Teachers is committed to ensuring our staff are happy in their roles; please look at our 4.8 star rated Google reviews.
3. A team of specialist education consultants, many with years of education experience.

Horizon Teachers is a specialist Education Recruitment Consultancy that helps Teachers and Support Staff find long-term, permanent, and interim employment in Primary, Secondary, and Special Schools throughout London, the South East, the Midlands, and the North of England. As part of the registration process, you will be required to have a DBS Check carried out, and all original relevant qualifications will need to be sighted and copied before any work placement. For all teaching roles, you will need to hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent.

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