Teaching Assistant – Secondary School | March 2026 Start
Location: Bristol
Contract: Full-time (Monday-Friday)
Hours: 8:30am – 3:30pm
Salary: Competitive (Dependent on Experience)
A new opportunity has become available for a committed and supportive Teaching Assistant to join a welcoming secondary school in Bristol this March 2026. This role is ideal for someone passionate about making a genuine difference to young people-academically, emotionally, and behaviourally.
The school is guided by a strong set of values that shape its culture and daily practice. These values focus on treating every individual with dignity and respect, promoting freedom, choice, and equal opportunity, and actively challenging discrimination and social exclusion. It prides itself on being a welcoming, community‑driven environment that supports students of all faiths and none, ensuring every learner feels respected, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential.
Why This School?
- A welcoming, inclusive community built on strong shared values
- An ethos focused on equality, dignity, and respect for all
- Supportive pastoral systems and a positive approach to behaviour and wellbeing
- Leadership dedicated to professional development and staff support
- A diverse and vibrant environment serving the wider Bristol community
- Accessible location with good local transport links
About the Role
As a Teaching Assistant, you will support teaching and learning across KS3 and KS4, helping students remain engaged, confident, and focused on their individual subjects. You will also spend time working within the school’s Behaviour Support Room, providing guidance to students who need help to regulate their emotions, reflect on their choices, and prepare to reintegrate into their lessons. This space plays a crucial role in the school’s pastoral system, offering a calm and structured environment where students can reset, refocus, and receive targeted support. Alongside behaviour regulation, you will also help students stay on track with their individual subjects, ensuring they do not fall behind academically while receiving additional pastoral support. This aspect of the role requires someone who is calm under pressure, resilient, and confident in supporting both behaviour and learning needs simultaneously.
Key Responsibilities
- Support students’ learning across multiple subjects at KS3 and KS4
- Help students remain focused and make progress in their individual subject areas
- Provide targeted 1:1 and small-group intervention
- Support the Behaviour Room when needed, helping students regulate and refocus
- Encourage positive behaviour, routines, and engagement
- Assist teachers with preparation of classroom activities and materials
- Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and values-led school culture
- Support students’ academic progress and personal development
What We’re Looking For
- Experience working with children or young people (school experience desirable)
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Confidence supporting behaviour, engagement, and emotional regulation
- A patient, calm, and resilient approach
- Passion for supporting young people’s wellbeing and success
- Commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and the academy’s core values
- Relevant qualifications are desirable but not essential
Benefits of Working with Monarch Education:
- Leading provider, Crown Commercial Service Approved
- Opportunity to enhance your CPD portfolio through our Affinity Academy
- Free Safeguarding training
- Refer a friend scheme – £200 bonus (you can make unlimited referrals)
- Online portal to manage your pay and timesheets
To learn more about us and what makes Monarch one of the leading education recruitment providers nationwide – please visit our website – About Us – Monarch (monarcheducation.co.uk)
Important Information:
- All pay rates provided are inclusive of rolled up holiday pay.
- Equal Opportunities – Monarch
- Affinity Workforce Solutions and Monarch Education are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expects all its temporary workers to share these commitments. As this role involves working with children on a daily basis, regulated activity is that any successful applicant’s applications will, accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to 2 employment references, an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check.
- This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Monarch Education operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.
