Class Teacher

Class Teacher

Full Time, Permanent

MPS

To start April 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Clover Leys Spencer Academy for a Class Teacher. The successful candidate should have excellent knowledge of Development Matters and the National Curriculum in both KS1 and KS2 and be prepared to take on curriculum responsibilities.

Clover Leys Spencer Academy opened in September 2021 and presently has EYFS, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 classes. Each year the school grows with a new EYFS cohort. Clover Leys Spencer Academy is at an exciting time in its development as the school continues to grow and develop. We have high expectations of behaviour and can consequently offer you polite and hardworking children who enjoy school. Forest School is a large part of our curriculum and we welcome applications from practitioners who dare to be a little different and are happy to put a child centred curriculum first and foremost in their delivery.

We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you wish to discuss this role, please do not hesitate to contact Rebecca Chapman, Principal at rchapman@cloverleysspencer.org.uk

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.

You will become part of a leading regional high performing Trust. Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We educate over 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2700 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 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All our school’s 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.

Please submit your application by no later than 23rd February 2025 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.

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

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. 

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

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