Location: Ashwood Spencer Academy, Derby, UK
Salary: £13358 - £14238
Education Phase: Primary
Working Pattern: Part-Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 12th March 2025
Interview Date: 3rd March 2025
About Us
Ashwood Spencer Academy is looking for a Part Time Teaching Assistant to work in year 1 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). This is a temporary position until 31 December 2025.
At Ashwood Spencer Academy, we are dedicated to providing exemplary teaching and learning for all our children. Our DREAM curriculum ensures creativity is at its heart, encouraging oracy, tolerance, and collaboration. Our aim is to develop respectful individuals who aspire to follow their DREAMs. Ashwood is a magical place that offers enriching experiences within a loving and stimulating environment. We value our close relationships with our parents, governors, and the community, working in partnership to enable our pupils to have the best possible start in their educational journey.
Ashwood Spencer Academy joined Spencer Academies Trust in November 2018 and has gone from strength to strength each academic year. We have approximately 665 pupils on roll from nursery to year 6 and 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. In our recent 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
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview. Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please email info@ashwoodspencer.org.uk or call 01332 348356.
Job Description
See attached job description.
Benefits
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.
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.
The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision.
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