Intervention Teaching Assistant

Intervention Teaching Assistant

Permanent Part Time

NJC 7-11 Starting from £7,495 per annum

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."

Can you help to give our children the best start possible? 

Will you bring imagination and excitement to provide our children with magical memories? 

Castleward Spencer Academy, is a brand-new school that is part of the Spencer Academies Trust.  We are looking for a part time Teaching Assistant who can work flexibly to provide targeted intervention support for a focused group of children. The hours are not fixed, so the intervention support could be timetabled to suit the successful candidate.  If you wish to discuss this role, please contact Lindsay Trail, Principal, at lindsaytrail@castlewardspencer.com

We are looking for a practitioner who:

• Has the ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
• Is motivated and passionate to achieve the very best for the children in our care and makes a genuine difference
• Makes learning visible through inquiry and can make learning exciting for all
• Takes their own initiative to assess and evaluate pupils’ needs
• Is ready to learn themselves and grow with us
• Has excellent communication skills and a sense of humour
• Wants to be involved in everything!

What can we offer you?

• Friendly, supportive, enthusiastic and hardworking colleagues
• A place where you will feel valued for your hard work
• A growing learning community with opportunities to learn from others and through research
• Encouragement to develop new ideas and the opportunity to make a real difference
• Networking opportunities for staff all and access to a range of high quality CPD.

 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.

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 1 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 6th 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