Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Full Time 37 hours per week - Term Time Only

Duration - Fixed Term Aug 2025 with possibility to extend

Salary NJC12-16 (£23,789 - £25,392)

Required November 2024

We are looking for enthusiastic, highly skilled, committed and flexible Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and supportive team. Portland Spencer Academy is part of the Spencer Academies Trust and as such benefits from a range of opportunities for further development.

We are looking for someone who:

• has relevant qualifications and training in line with the new DFE qualifications list. i.e. NVQ/CACHE in working with children
• can offer outstanding support for teaching
• is keen to lead in a classroom as part of a team
• has experience of supporting teaching and learning across school from EYFS to KS2
• has a wide range of behaviour management techniques
• has a commitment to making a difference to children’s lives
• has drive and an enthusiastic approach to work as positive member of an excellent team
• is flexible to support has excellent literacy, numeracy and ICT skill
• has has an ability to foster strong relationships with pupils, parents/carers and other professionals

At Portland Spencer Academy we ASPIRE in all that we do, ensuring the very best for every child. Our children expect you to:

Always smile and listen to our ideas

Succeed in teaching and see potential in us

Praise us when we make good choices

Inspire us and include everyone

Respect us and other members of staff

Everyone should have fun!

Portland Spencer Academy is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ school (November 2023) which reflects our whole school community’s desire to deliver our children with the very best education. We pride ourselves on learning which has kindness and creativity at its core, but which sets children up for a lifetime of success. 

Read more about our Outstanding Ofsted report here: 10254786-Portland-Spencer-Aca-140550-final-pdf.pdf (portlandspencer.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 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 1 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.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Debbie Batterbee: info@portlandspencer.org.uk 

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted.

Closing date for applications 7th October 2024 at 9 00am

Interviews will take place on 10th October 2024

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