Date posted: 16 September 2025
Pay: £95.00-£110.00 per day
Job description:
Team Educate are recruiting for passionate teaching assistants who speak fluent Welsh or attended a Welsh-medium primary/secondary school. We work with a number of Welsh-medium primary schools in the Pont Y Pool area who are looking for enthusiastic teaching assistants to join their school and support children through the medium of Welsh.
The schools we work with are eager to welcome proactive and friendly teaching assistants to the team on a full-time or part-time basis depending on what you’re looking for. You do not need exact classroom experience, however working with children would be beneficial.
A desirable Welsh speaking teaching assistant must have:
- Experience working with children
- Exceptional communication skills
- Empathetic and nurturing characteristics
The Welsh speaking teaching assistant role includes:
- Supporting the class teacher with work set out for the day
- Ensuring the classroom is tidy
- Delivering activities to small groups of children
- Offering support on a 1:1 basis
- Using your own initiative
- Developing literacy and numeracy skills through the medium of Welsh
Requirements for a Welsh speaking teaching assistant role:
- Enhanced DBS Check – we can help process one for you
- Registered with the EWC – we can help get you registered
- 2 years’ worth of professional references
- Over 18 years old
- Fluency in the Welsh language
Benefits of working with Team Educate:
- Flexible hours (choose the days you’d like to work)
- Weekly pay
- Competitive rates of pay
If you are interested in the above role, please click apply and provide an up-to-date CV, ensuring current contact details are provided.
If you’re still in education, we can still get you registered with us ready for when you finish your course – this ensures immediate availability as soon as you finish education.
About Team Educate:
We are a forward-thinking agency with our schools’ and candidates’ best interests at heart. We have lots of positions coming to us on a weekly basis and we are confident we can find the perfect role for you! Something that separates us from other teaching agencies is our in-house teaching expert, who has 13 years of experience in various education settings. He is here to offer our candidates support with their teaching practice, writing covering letters and interview advice. If you want to join a local agency, with the best service available, we urge you to get in touch. Come and join us so together, we can become an outstanding Team of Educators!
Come and join our amazing Team so we can continue to be an outstanding team of Educators! Have a friend who may be interested in joining us? We offer £75 for every Teaching Assistant referral and £150 for every Supply Teacher referral (terms and conditions apply).
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Language:
- Welsh (required)
Licence/Certification:
- DBS (preferred)
- Driving Licence (preferred)
At Team Educate, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do, ensuring every child is safe, supported, and able to thrive. We follow strict safer recruitment practices to ensure that every adult working with children is safe, suitable, and committed to promoting their welfare. Safer recruitment is more than just carrying out checks – it’s about creating a culture where safeguarding is a priority from the very first stage of hiring.
Our safer recruitment process includes:
- Enhanced DBS checks (including barred list checks where appropriate)
- Verification of identity, right to work in the UK, and address history
- Detailed reference checks with previous employers, covering at least the last 2 years
- Employment history checks to account for any gaps in work or education
- Qualification and training verification (where applicable)
- Face-to-face/Video call interviews to assess suitability, values, and understanding of safeguarding responsibilities
By following these steps, we make sure that the people we recruit are not only capable of doing the job but also share our commitment to keeping children safe.
As part of our dedication to high standards, we also offer a FREE training courses e.g. Level 2 Safeguarding Children, Prevent awareness course and much more to all staff. These courses will give you the knowledge and confidence to recognise signs of abuse or neglect, understand your safeguarding responsibilities, and know how to take the right action to protect children in your care.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, and safer recruitment helps ensure that the staff who join Team Educate are trustworthy, responsible, and prepared to put children’s wellbeing first.