Learning Ambassador

Learning Ambassador

NJC 07-11

Full Time, Permanent

Wyndham Spencer Academy is an outstanding primary school situated in Derby city. We are proud to share our status as a World Class School, which strives to be creative, inspiring and empowering our children and staff. As a Research School, our practice is rooted in evidence and staff engage in and with research as a cornerstone of quality first teaching to ensure our children achieve personal GREATness. We are a team of dedicated practitioners who strive to offer nothing but the best for our children. Would you like to be part of the next stage of our exciting journey?

Our children are looking for a Teaching Assistant who:

• Is a creative thinker
• Puts children at the heart of decision making
• Has a ‘whatever it takes attitude’
• Is research driven and evidence informed
• Wants to make a difference to the lives of all children they support
• Is a team player 

In return, we will offer you:

• A collaborative ethos, working with other schools and colleagues to develop day to day practice
• A creative and unique environment, rich in innovative approaches
• Access to high quality CPD through in-house training, the Derby Research School, working closely with the Teaching School Hub, and Spencer Academies Trust.
• An inclusive and welcoming team to work alongside.

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 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 the quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff and have demonstrable evidence of driving teaching and learning outcomes in all phases.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact the Office Manager directly, Mrs A John at ajohn@wyndhamacademy.org

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 

Closing date for applications – Monday 2nd October 2023, 5.00 pm 

Interviews will take place – Tuesday 10th October 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