Teaching Assistant Level 2 KS1

Teaching Assistant Level 2 KS1

NJC 07-11 £20,859 - £22,306

Full Time, term time only

Permanent

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. At Ashwood 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 600 pupils on roll from nursery to year 6 and we 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

The successful candidate will contribute to School objectives by effectively and efficiently undertaking a range of duties to support the excellent teaching and learning of pupils; providing general and specific assistance to pupils in all aspects of the curriculum under the strategic direction of the Principal and with daily guidance and supervision from the classroom teacher.

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.

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 click REGISTER and 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  

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

Please submit your application by no later than Friday 29th March 2024. Our application deadline can end earlier where we have received a positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible. 

Interview date: April 2024

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