Teaching Assistant - Level 2

TES FE News; Derby; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant community at a leading academy as a Teaching Assistant. You will play a key role in supporting the educational journey of our children while working alongside dedicated professionals. This full-time, fixed-term position emphasizes the importance of a nurturing environment and professional development, ensuring every child can achieve their full potential. If you share our commitment to high standards and the mission to provide quality education, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children in a school setting is desirable.
• Ability to engage with children and support diverse learning needs.
• Commitment to the school's ethos and mission.

Responsibilities

• Support teachers in delivering lessons and managing classroom behavior.
• Assist with the educational, social, and personal development of children.
• Engage with children and provide additional support where needed.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Empathy

Education

Level 2 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent

Job description

Job Overview

Teaching Assistant - Level 2

NJC 7- 11, currently £22,670 - £24,163 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 Tuesday 8th 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.

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