Teaching Assistant - Level 3

Voyage Education Partnership; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational partnership is seeking an outstanding Teaching Assistant Level 3 who is passionate about developing children to achieve high standards. The position is based at Bispham Spencer Academy, where the successful candidate will engage with children and support their educational journeys within a permanent, full-time contract.

Benefits

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Qualifications

• Outstanding teaching assistant qualities.
• Ability to engage and inspire children.
• A positive and energetic attitude.

Responsibilities

• Develop children to achieve high standards.
• Build strong, positive relationships with students.
• Engage with a supportive educational environment.

Skills

Team Player

Passion for Education

Energy

Commitment to Professional Development

Job description

Location: Bispham Spencer Academy, Bispham Drive, Toton, Nottingham, NG9 6GJ, UK

Education Phase: Primary

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Friday, 4th July 2025

Interview Date: 10 July 2025

About us

We expect our teachers to be both interested and interesting. Interested - passionate about developing the children they teach to achieve the highest standards. Interesting - having an inspiring personality and an ability to build strong, positive relationships with the children they teach. All of our staff make our children really ‘bothered’ about their learning, willing to go the extra mile that makes all the difference.

Academically we have our D.R.I.V.E. curriculum, defined by our school values, which builds both character and achievement across the school. We go beyond the norm and include nationally accredited philosophy lessons as an important part of our offer. We use our lovely grounds to the full for Forest School and a diverse range of sports. The support of the emotional health and wellbeing of pupils and staff has been at the heart of Bispham’s ethos for many years.

We are looking for:

• An outstanding teaching assistant
• Someone with the passion and energy to make a difference
• A team player with a ‘glass half full’ attitude to life
• A commitment to continued professional development
• Someone who looks for the fun in every day

In return we offer:

• A wonderful cohort of children with supportive and engaged parents, a brilliant school staff who work as a team to move the school forward
• A well-maintained school set in lovely grounds
• Supportive leaders and governors committed to maintaining work life balance

Visits to the school are welcomed please contact the school office to arrange this. Alternatively the head teacher is happy to have an informal telephone chat about the role and to answer any questions.

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 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 [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. We are also required to request references prior to interview.

Closing date for applications 4th July 2025

Interviews will take place on 10th July 2025

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

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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 of service. For full details, click here:https://www.spencertrust.org.uk/employee-benefits

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