Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Class Teacher

M1-M6: £31,650-£43,607

Full Time, Maternity Cover - to start Easter 2025

Are you an outstanding teacher? Would you embrace the opportunity to be part of a growing school, in its sixth year? If so, read on! 

The Mease Spencer Academy opened in September 2019 for children in Reception only with one new class of Reception children joining us each year. Our first cohort of children have progressed through school and are now in Year 5 so it won’t be long until we are full (Reception to Year 6)! Our recent ‘Good’ Ofsted report reflects our warm, nurturing relationships, the good behaviour of our pupils, our strong curriculum offer and our ‘outstanding’ personal development offer. 

We are looking for a teacher to cover a maternity leave who shares our vision of Learning Together Through Reflection and our REFLECT ethos, someone who is up for a challenge and wants to get stuck in with all aspects of our school life. This is a unique opportunity to build, shape and grow a school from its relatively early days and to bring your enthusiasm, high expectations, knowledge and experience to create an exciting new learning environment for our wonderful children. There is no doubt about it, setting up The Mease from scratch is taking vision, dedication and hard work! All of us here are absolutely loving the challenge and we’re really proud of the school it is becoming! 

Our new teacher will be highly driven and motivated, have an eye for detail and be able to work flexibly and creatively. We hope to receive applications from teachers on the main pay range; applications from ECTs are very much welcomed as well as more experienced teachers. 

For further information, please visit the Spencer Academies Trust website to learn more about the Trust and The Mease Spencer Academy website to find out more about our school. Visits are warmly welcomed and encouraged: to make an appointment, please contact Hayley Ellis (Office Manager) on 01332 981187 or hellis@themeasespencer.org.uk

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. 

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.   

Closing date for applications Sunday 26th January

Interview date to be confirmed

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date. 

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