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Early years teaching assistant

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Assistant in early years education Assistant in early years teaching Early childhood teaching aide Early childhood teaching assistant Early years ta Early years education assistant Kindergarten teaching assistant Nursery teaching aide Nursery teaching assistant Preschool teaching aide Preschool teaching assistant Reception teaching assistant

Early years teaching assistants support the early years teacher in an early years or nursery school. They assist in class instruction, in classroom supervision in absence of the head teacher, and in organising, developing and putting into practice of the daily schedule. Early years teaching assistants monitor and help students in group as well as individually, and tend to focus on the students in need of extra care and attention the early years teacher cannot provide.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Demonstrating, supervising and participating in activities that enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of children in schools and pre-schools;
(b) Preparing indoor and outdoor areas for learning and recreational activities;
(c) Assisting children with intellectual, physical, behavioural and other learning difficulties with their studies;
(d) Assisting children individually to learn social skills;
(e) Assisting with preparing teaching materials, and copying and collating written and printed material;
(f) Operating audio-visual equipment, computers and other teaching aides;
(g) Distributing and collecting lesson material.

Knowledge

  • Nursing and midwifery
  • Community sanitation
  • Medicine
  • Education science
  • Training for pre-school teachers

Digital competencies

  • Caring for children
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Monitoring and evaluating the performance of individuals
  • Teaching and training
  • Coaching and mentoring

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Leading others
  • Supporting others
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Dealing with problems
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Service and sales workers

Personal care workers

Child care workers and teachers' aides

Teachers' aides

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Teachers' aides

6.243

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

25,64%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

18,76% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

26,59%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

72,03%

Part-time contracts

1,75% Turnover index

1.089

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-4%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Personal care workers

24%

76%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Personal care workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Child care workers and teachers' aides

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Teachers' aides

No experience
16%
Less than 1 year
22%
Between 1 and 2 years
38%
Between 2 and 4 years
12%
Between 4 and 8 years
3%
More than 8 years
9%
Education
43%
Information and communication
13%
Human health and social work activities
13%
Administrative and support service activities
9%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
7%
Others
15%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.