Teaching Assistant - Level 2

Coast and Vale Learning Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashwood Spencer Academy is seeking enthusiastic Teaching Assistants to support learning in Early Years and Year 2. The role focuses on patience, empathy and strong behaviour management to help pupils progress.

The academy aims to inspire a love of learning through creative, differentiated activities and close collaboration with teaching staff and the school community.

Qualifications

• Patient, positive and have empathy for all pupils.
• Motivational and inspirational, fostering a love of learning in all pupils.
• Strong behaviour management skills.
• Able to understand how different pupils learn and the barriers some face to their learning.

Responsibilities

• Support in the delivery of creative and innovative approaches to learning, driving differentiated planning and resourcing to impact on all pupils' learning.
• Encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour and support them where necessary.
• Assist teaching staff in Early Years and Year 2 to accelerate pupil progress.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Behaviour management

Job description

Are you ready to make a meaningful difference to children's learning? Ashwood Spencer Academy are looking to appoint enthusiastic, committed and dedicated Teaching Assistants. These positions will be based in Early Years and Year 2.

The successful candidates must be:

• Patient, positive and have empathy for all pupils.
• Motivational and inspirational, fostering a love of learning in all pupils.
• Strong behaviour management skills.
• Able to understand how different pupils learn and the barriers some face to their learning.
• Able to support in the delivery of creative and innovative approached to learning, driving differentiated planning and confident in resourcing to impact on all pupils' learning.
• Successful in encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour and support them where necessary

If you are passionate about helping children and young people accelerate their progress and are keen on developing high-quality resources, we would love to hear from you!

To learn more about this role, please view the full job description and person specification.

Ashwood Spencer Academy joined Spencer Academies Trust in November 2018 and has gone from strength to strength each academic year. We have approximately 670 pupils on roll from nursery to year 6 and we are proud of our changing, diverse school community. Ashwood Spencer is at the heart of the community and is committed to improving educational outcomes for all our pupils. In October 2022, we received the IQM Inclusion Quality Mark with Centre of Excellence status and in October 2025, we achieved 'Flagship School Status'. In our Ofsted inspection in February 2023, we were recognised as a ‘good’ school and we want to continue to improve on that status, by making the staff, pupils and community experience at Ashwood a magical one.

We are fully committed to our ethos of ‘Working together to believe and achieve’.

We work hard to make Ashwood a place to DREAM:

Determined risk takers who want to succeed

Resilient and respectful learners

Expressive communicators

Ambitious achievers, unafraid of mistakes

Magic happens when you dream

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

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.