Teaching Assistant

TES FE News; Derby; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational trust is seeking a dedicated Teaching Assistant to join the Brackensdale Spencer Academy team. This full-time, fixed-term position offers competitive pay, with a strong focus on fostering a positive learning environment. Ideal candidates will share the school's values of kindness, ambition, and excellence, contributing to every child's development.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Candidates should share high aspirations for pupils and staff.

Responsibilities

• Support children's education and personal development.
• Promote a caring ethos and positive relationships.
• Foster child development in the classroom.

Skills

Commitment to values

Collaboration

Job description

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Teaching Assistant

NJC 2 -6 currently £20,963 - £22,315 actual pay, per annum

Fixed Term, Full Time

At Brackensdale Spencer Academy, we are committed to providing a high-quality of education for all children and a caring ethos in which each individual achieves their full potential. We teach this through our 3 values which are woven into everything that we do at school. You will hear the children and adults referring to them regularly throughout the day.

• BE KIND
• SHINE BRIGHT
• AIM HIGH
  
  

Job Overview

Teaching Assistant

NJC 2 -6 currently £20,963 - £22,315 actual pay, per annum

Fixed Term, Full Time

At Brackensdale Spencer Academy, we are committed to providing a high-quality of education for all children and a caring ethos in which each individual achieves their full potential. We teach this through our 3 values which are woven into everything that we do at school. You will hear the children and adults referring to them regularly throughout the day.

• BE KIND
• SHINE BRIGHT
• AIM HIGH
  
  

A "Brackensdale education" is about developing the whole child and providing opportunities for them to flourish within and beyond the classroom. Our children are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on maintaining positive relationships with home.

We are proud of our Enhanced Resource unit, made up of the Ark (EYFS and KS1) and the Phoenix (KS 2), which caters for children who require specialist provision around communication and interaction, primarily children with ASD.

Spencer Academies Trust 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 2800 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 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools 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 Miss Julie Buchanan (Operations Manager) on: [e-mail]

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 2nd July 2025

Interview date to be confirmed

Our adverts do sometimes close early, even where there’s a published deadline – and so if you’re keen, please apply as soon as practically possible.

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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

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