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Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Wellbeing an Parental Support

Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Wellbeing an Parental Support

Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy

Derbyshire

  • £16,982 - £17,940 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
NJC 12-15
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
11 February 2023

Job overview

Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Wellbeing an Parental Support

Full time, Permanent

Salary: NJC 12-15 (£16,982 - £17,940)

Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy are looking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant – Wellbeing & parental support. The successful Teaching Assistant will work with the class teacher to support teaching and learning as a whole and working with small groups of pupils under the direction of teacher and, for short periods of time, be responsible for the whole class in the absence of the teacher.

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.

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 10800 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 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   

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

Please submit your application by no later than 11th February 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.

Interview date: Monday 13th February 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

About Chellaston Fields Spencer Academy

Happiness and Wellbeing

The happiness and wellbeing of our staff and children is a priority. Strong, close relationships between staff and children are an exemplary feature of the school. The highest expectations are underpinned by clear and concise systems and processes and ensure that our teachers have the time and space to do what they do best; plan and teach experiences that will motivate and inspire our children.

Everyone an Expert

We believe that everybody in the world is the best at something. We aim to provide an inspirational learning environment designed so that children have access to a range of opportunities on a daily basis. There is time for the budding artist to refine their sketches or the future poet to practice their performance techniques. We encourage leadership at all levels for staff and pupils and encourage everyone to develop and lead in an area of their choice.

Culture of Improvement

Everyone within our academy is dedicated to being the best that they can be. Children are trained to critique their own work as well as that of others and are keen to ask for advice about how to improve. This is also true of our staff team who, through high quality CPD provision and coaching sessions, are encouraged to debate and reflect upon the way they teach to support each other’s development.

Exceptional Outcomes

Our children will achieve very well at all statutory assessment points. We assess continuously to make sure planning and teaching is responsive to meet the needs of the individual. Children receive same day interventions and also have the opportunity to access tailored provision areas where they can practise and consolidate their own personal targets.

Family Dining

Staff play a key role at lunchtimes and help to facilitate our system of family dining. During this time, children reinforce our core values of great communication, resilience, confidence, independence and working as a team when serving each other, clearing away and socialising.

Parental Engagement

Parents play a key role in their child’s development and we expect levels of engagement at the school to be remarkably high. We provide regular workshops to help our parents know more about the teaching and learning methods that their children are using in school. We meet with parents twice a year to discuss progress in detail as well as inviting them into classrooms half termly to view the learning that has taken place.

Enrichment opportunities

Opportunities to take learning beyond the classroom are vast. As our school grows we will be looking to develop our learning environments inside and outside to provide exciting resources and activities. We want our children to have the opportunity to experience nature and to participate in creative and sporting activities. We value first hand experiences: learning is at its most powerful when connected to an emotional or sensory experience.

Staff family

As a small team it is essential that all staff are willing to be flexible and adaptable and prepared to ‘wear different hats’ as the needs arise. We expect our staff to support each other and be prepared to pitch in with whatever is needed to ensure that we consistently deliver an excellent experience for our children throughout the school day and beyond.

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