Teaching Assistant
Permanent, Full Time
NJC7 - NJC11 (£21,966 - £23,414)
Do you want to be part of a brand-new team in a brand-new school?
Can you help to give our children the best start possible?
Will you bring imagination and excitement to provide our children with magical memories?
Castleward Spencer Academy are looking to appoint a level 2 Teaching Assistant. The successful Teaching Assistant will work with the class teacher to support teaching and learning as a whole and working with small groups of pupils under the direction of teacher and, for short periods of time, be responsible for the whole class in the absence of the teacher.
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 2500 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 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one 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 wish to discuss this role, please do not hesitate to contact Lindsay Trail, Principal at info@castlewardspencer.org.uk
We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:
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: 25th April 2025
Interviews: to be confirmed
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.
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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