Job Description
Are you an experienced and resilient Teaching Assistant looking for flexible, rewarding work?
Do you thrive in a challenging environment where every day is different?
New Directions is currently recruiting passionate and proactive Teaching Assistants to join our supply pool, working in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and alternative provisions across Flintshire.
PRUs support children and young people who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion from mainstream education, often due to behavioural or emotional needs. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference while gaining valuable experience across diverse settings.
What You’ll Do:
1. Provide 1:1 or small group support to pupils with behavioural, social, or emotional needs
2. Assist teaching staff with behaviour management and classroom support
3. Help create a safe, structured, and nurturing environment
4. Support pupils in accessing learning and developing life skills
5. Build positive relationships with students, staff, and external professionals
About You:
6. Experience supporting children or young people with challenging behaviour (in education, care, or youth work)
7. Strong interpersonal and de-escalation skills
8. Calm, patient, and adaptable approach
9. Willingness to travel to different schools across the region
10. Team Teach or other behaviour management training is a plus (but not essential)
11. Enhanced DBS on the Update Service, or willing to apply for one
Benefits of working with New Directions:
12. A dedicated and expert Account Manager
13. Regular and varied supply work
14. Competitive rates of pay
15. Potential long-term roles
16. Full compliance with the Agency Workers Regulation (AWR)
17. A network of branches across the UK
18. One of the preferred suppliers to all 22 local authorities in Wales under the All Wales Framework Agreement
19. We are the major teaching supply agency for Welsh speaking teachers across Wales
20. Recommend-a-friend scheme
21. Respected reputation across the education and recruitment industry
What New Directions Education Ltd offers:
22. A dedicated and expert Account Manager
23. Regular and varied supply work
24. Competitive rates of pay
25. Potential long-term roles
26. Full compliance with the Agency Workers Regulation (AWR)
27. A network of branches across the UK
28. One of the preferred suppliers to all 22 local authorities in Wales under the All Wales Framework Agreement
29. We are the major teaching supply agency for Welsh speaking teachers across Wales
30. Recommend-a-friend scheme
31. Respected reputation across the education and recruitment industry
We are fully committed to the protection of children and vulnerable adults. All applicants must undertake a full enhanced DBS check.
Please select Apply Now to enquire about this job vacancy with New Directions Education Ltd, Wrexham branch.
New Directions Education Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.