Teaching Assistant - Level 2 at Ashwood Spencer Academy

Derby Moor Spencer Academy; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashwood Spencer Academy in the East Midlands is looking for a Nursery Teaching Assistant who is patient, positive and dedicated to supporting children's learning. You will work closely with teachers to deliver creative activities, manage behaviour, and help pupils access learning at their own pace.

The role is centered in the Nursery and requires a respectful, encouraging approach to diverse learners. The school values inclusion and high-quality resources, with a commitment to improving outcomes

Job description

About this Role

Are you readyto make a meaningful difference to children's learning? Ashwood Spencer Academyare looking to appoint an enthusiastic, committed and dedicated Teaching Assistant. The position will be based in Nursery.

The successfulcandidate 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 arepassionate about helping children and young people accelerate their progressand are keen on developing high-quality resources, we would love to hear fromyou!

Ashwood SpencerAcademy joined Spencer Academies Trust in November 2018 and has gone fromstrength to strength each academic year. We have approximately 670 pupils onroll from nursery to year 6 and we are proud of our changing, diverse schoolcommunity. Ashwood Spencer is at the heart of the community and is committed to improving educational outcomes for all our pupils. In October 2022, we receivedthe IQM Inclusion Quality Mark with Centre of Excellence status and in October2025, we achieved 'Flagship School Status'. In our Ofsted inspection inFebruary 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 atAshwood a magical one.

We are fullycommitted to our ethos of 'Working together to believe and achieve'.

We work hard tomake 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

The Trust andits member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in bothemployment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents,governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholderswithin the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respectregardless of Protected Characteristics.

SpencerAcademies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.