Additional Needs Teaching Assistant

Additional Needs Teaching Assistant

37 hours per week, term-time only

Fixed Term until 31 July 2025

NJC 10 – NJC 14 Actual Salary: £21,934 - £23,470 per annum

• Are you passionate about providing a ‘world class’ education for pupils with Special Educational Needs, ensuring that they reach their true potential? 
• Are you prepared to get messy, join in with the fun and be outdoors on a regular basis so that our pupils learning is inspiring and creative? 
• Do you want to join a high performing team of staff who are committed to going that ‘extra mile’ to provide the very best for our pupils and their families?

If you can answer ‘yes’ to all of the above, then we would like to receive an application from you!

St Giles Spencer Academy is an outstanding Primary Special Academy in Derby City. We are a warm, friendly and inclusive academy which meets the needs of pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities.

St Giles Spencer Academy is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed Teaching Assistant on a permanent contract. Specific knowledge, skills and experience in supporting non-verbal pupils with autism and sensory needs would be an advantage. You must be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, be an effective team member and be calm and creative in your approach to working with pupils with additional needs. 

We are proud of what we do at St. Giles Spencer Academy and our recent school achievements are a result of a great team effort amongst pupils and their families, governors and staff:

• Special School of the Year Award 
• Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ 
• NASEN Learning Support Staff of the Year Award 
• Inclusion Quality Mark Flagship 
• Family First Quality Award 
• British Council International Schools Award 
• Be Mighty, Be Creative Award 
• ICAN Communication Specialist Accreditation 
• Arts Mark Gold Award 
• Fair-Trade Award 
• Learning Outside the Classroom Award 
• National Autistic Society Accredited School 

If you want to be part of an innovative, forward thinking and outward facing special school; who are genuinely committed to investing in your professional development, then St Giles could be the academy for you.

If you would like to visit St Giles Spencer Academy before the closing date, please contact the school via 01332 343039 or admin@stgiles.derby.sch.uk

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 18,000 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.

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

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. We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656  

In line with safer recruitment policies, references will be called for prior to interview. 

Closing date for applications: Sunday 14 April 2024, 5pm  

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.

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