Job description
Job Description
Post Title: Teaching Assistant
Location: Long Field Spencer Academy
Salary/Pay Range: NJC4 – NJC5 (Full Time equivalent £21,189-£21,575)
Hours of work: 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Reporting to: Assistant Principal
Purpose of Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our already established team of Teaching Assistants. This role will involve supporting students within the classroom setting. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, caring and committed person to join our dedicated team. Part Time hours will also be considered for this role.
Long Field Spencer Academy is a small, vibrant and friendly community secondary school, located in the market town of Melton Mowbray, just 17 miles from both Nottingham and Leicester. Ours is a modern and forward-thinking school which embraces new opportunities within teaching and learning as well as offering a wealth of excellent extracurricular opportunities, some of which are unique to our school. Judged as ‘Good’ in its most recent Ofsted inspection (Feb 2018). We welcome all visitors to the school and a visit is recommended to see the school in action. Long Field Spencer Academy is part of Spencer Academies Trust (SAT).
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 16000 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.
If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Chris Haggett on 01664 561234 or [email protected]
Please submit your application by no later than midday on 24 April 2023. Our application deadlines can end earlier, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible as we will contact you before the closing date. Interviews will take place week commencing 1 May 2023.
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: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 32.5 per week
Salary: £15,913.00-£16,203.00 per year
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: Teaching Assistant