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Teaching Assistant recruitment agency.
Hire locum, temporary, interim and permanent teaching assistants with Actionus. Teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants and cover supervisors keep classrooms running and support targeted intervention. Actionus books teaching assistants onto daily supply, long-term and permanent contracts with enhanced DBS on the update service wherever possible.
How you can hire
Locum, temporary, interim or permanent.
Locum teaching assistants
Short-notice and planned locum teaching assistants to cover rota gaps, sickness, leave and backlogs, booked on your framework or direct engagement terms where they apply.
Temporary teaching assistants
Temporary teaching assistants for seasonal pressure, projects and fixed blocks of work, with weekly online timesheets approved by your manager.
Interim teaching assistants
Interim teaching assistants and senior leads to hold a service, cover a vacant post or deliver a change programme while you recruit permanently.
Permanent teaching assistants
Permanent teaching assistants sourced, screened and shortlisted against your brief, with interviews arranged and offers managed through to start.
Compliance checked before the first shift
- •Enhanced DBS with children's barred list check
- •Right to work and identity verification
- •References including the most recent school or setting
- •Safeguarding training and KCSIE awareness
Settings we supply
- •Primary schools
- •Secondary schools
- •Special schools
- •Alternative provision
Specialities
1:1 support, HLTA, Cover supervision, Intervention and phonics, Early years support
Questions
Hiring teaching assistants, answered.
- How do I hire locum or temporary teaching assistants through Actionus?
- Send us the role, location, dates and engagement type. We confirm what is achievable, shortlist compliant teaching assistants and book them once you approve, with hours recorded through weekly online timesheets.
- Can Actionus recruit permanent and interim teaching assistants?
- Yes. We recruit teaching assistant staff on locum, temporary, interim and permanent terms, and temporary assignments can convert to permanent on agreed terms.
- What checks are completed before teaching assistants start?
- Professional registration where it applies, right to work, identity, the correct level of DBS, references and role-specific training evidence. The compliance pack is shared with you before the assignment begins.
- Do you work across the whole of the UK?
- Yes. Actionus recruits nationally across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Ireland, so you work with one agency wherever the vacancy sits.
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