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How to Apply

To apply to work with Spencer Academies Trust, please complete your candidate profile via our new Every Portal. If you are accessing our Every portal for the first time, you will need to register to add and save your candidate profile information, before tagging your profile to this vacancy. We have added a video to help guide you, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

Are you the sort of teacher who could inspire a child to write to a global company to stop the use of palm oil? Could you support children to understand local issues such as litter on the streets? Can you promote entrepreneurial skills when developing an enterprise project?

Welcome to the beginning of an exciting adventure for you at Fairfield Spencer Academy. Children are at the heart of everything we do. We want them to be excited by the curriculum, challenged to achieve their full potential and to SHINE.

We celebrate diverse talents, skills and interests within our school community and we look forward to inviting candidates to contribute new ideas and experiences to our team. We are particularly keen to hear from teachers who are passionate about making a difference to each child through our knowledge-engaged SHINE curriculum. You will be prepared to go the extra mile and have the ability to make learning purposeful, fun and engaging.

At Fairfield you will benefit from being part of a very committed and dedicated team who support each other, laugh in the staffroom and strive to do the best for our community!

Spencer Academies Trust

The Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.

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 2200 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.

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit: http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf

In line with safer recruitment policies, references will be called for prior to interview. Online searches for shortlisted applicants will be carried out as part of our due diligence.

Please submit your application by: 9.00am Wednesday 8th March 2023

Our application deadline can end earlier, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on: Tuesday 14th March 2023

If you require more information or would like an informal discussion about the role please contact Julie Bounds 01159179266.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £28,000.00-£38,810.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: Class Teacher
Expected start date: 01/09/2023