Teaching Assistant

Spencer Academies Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a new team at Castleward Spencer Academy as a Teaching Assistant. The role involves supporting teaching and learning in a primary setting, working closely with the class teacher and managing small groups of pupils.

Benefits

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assist Programme

BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes)

Responsibilities

• Support teaching and learning as a whole and work with small groups.
• Be responsible for the whole class in the absence of the teacher.

Job description

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Location: Castleward Spencer Academy, Canal Street, Derby, DE1 2RJ, United Kingdom

Salary: NJC7 - NJC11 (£21,966 - £23,414)

Education Phase: Primary

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Friday, 30th May 2025

Interview Date: TBC

About Us

Do you want to be part of a brand-new team in a brand-new school?

Can you help to give our children the best start possible?

Will you bring imagination and excitement to provide our children with magical memories?

Castleward Spencer Academy are looking to appoint a level 2 Teaching Assistant FOR KS2. The successful Teaching Assistant will work with the class teacher to support teaching and learning as a whole and working with small groups of pupils under the direction of teacher and, for short periods of time, be responsible for the whole class in the absence of the teacher.

If you wish to discuss this role, please do not hesitate to contact Lindsay Trail, Principal at [e-mail]

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our school’s benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
  
  

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Lindsay Trail, Principal, at [e-mail]

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.

Closing date for applications: 30th May 2025

Interviews will take place on: TBC

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How To Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.

If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

Job Description

Please see attached job description document for further details.

Benefits

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). Recognition of local government and academy continuous service for full details, click here: https://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits

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