Early Years Teaching Assistant – Full-Time Supply Role
Leeds | Immediate Start | Full-Time Supply
Got a knack for turning playtime into learning time? This one’s for you.
Protocol Education is on the lookout for a nurturing, hands-on Early Years Teaching Assistant to join our supply team in Leeds. You’ll be supporting children in Nursery and Reception across a warm, welcoming primary setting—helping them grow in confidence, curiosity and independence every single day.
This role is full of variety and joy. You’ll be creating positive learning experiences, supporting early development milestones, and working alongside teachers to give every child the best possible start. From phonics to painting, there’s never a dull moment!
What you’ll be doing:
1. Supporting play-based learning and early literacy/numeracy activities
2. Helping children build social skills and confidence in the classroom
3. Assisting with daily routines and classroom organisation
4. Creating a safe, supportive and fun learning environment
What we’re looking for:
5. Experience supporting children in Early Years (nursery or reception)
6. A warm, patient and encouraging approach
7. Someone who enjoys being creative, hands-on and part of a team
8. Ideally, experience supporting children with additional needs (SEN)
What’s in it for you?
9. Weekly pay through PAYE – no umbrella companies, no hidden fees
10. FREE access to our online CPD Academy – build your skills as you work
11. Personalised support from your local consultant (real people, not bots!)
12. Opportunities across nursery, mainstream and SEND settings
13. Referral rewards when you recommend a friend
✨ Bonus: Not Thrive trained yet? No problem — we’ll enrol you for free! Thrive training helps you support children’s emotional wellbeing and makes you even more valuable to schools and nurseries.
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 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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