Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

Salary:  NJC5-7 £18,446 - £19,124

Hours: 37 hours per week, Term Time Only

We are looking to appoint a hardworking, enthusiastic Teaching Assistant who is prepared to work across all Key Stages in our happy, lively, forward looking school. The post will involve class support, working one to one with children who have additional needs and working with parents.  

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 the primary phase.

Everything we do at Sunnyside is about providing our children with an excellent education and enriching experiences to promote a love of learning. We pride ourselves on being a Sunnyside Family as staff, families and children are on a journey together to achieve greatness and shine brightly. We build learning behaviours, create curiosity, challenge thinking, develop resilience and create children who have the confidence to ask questions and a desire to learn more.

An informal visit to the school is warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please call the school Office on (0115 9174310) to arrange a convenient date and time.  We would be delighted to hear from you.

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.

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 9th October 2023. 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. 

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 12th 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