Teaching Assistant Level 2

Teaching Assistant Level 2

Full Time, Term Time Only, Permanent

Salary: NJC 7-11 (Actual Salary: £21,967 to £23,414)

Starting: February 2025

We are looking to recruit a Level 2 Teaching Assistant to join the Rosecliffe family.

Rosecliffe is a modern school placed at the centre of a new community within Edwalton, Nottingham. The staff and children of Rosecliffe work towards the goals laid out in our ‘Rosecliffe Way’ with values of Kindness, Integrity, Determination, Pride and Respect. 

At the heart of Rosecliffe Spencer Academy is an absolute belief in the ability of every student to shine – no matter what their background, ability or character. We support students in being the best they can be. We focus on the development of our students as individuals, and guide them by allowing honest, trusting and equal relationships to form. We combine the traditional values of discipline, respect and good behaviour with contemporary best practice in teaching, learning and technology. We also encourage our students to be critical thinkers and promote these skills throughout the curriculum.

We strive to be a high performing school based on developing children’s curiosity and an exciting and knowledge-rich curriculum to serve our local community. At Rosecliffe Spencer, all children learn in an environment that helps them to thrive and understand that their learning has no limits.

Ofsted graded Rosecliffe Good overall in June 2023. We received a good grading in the following areas of attendance, personal development, quality of education and leadership and management and early years provision, with an outstanding in behaviour and attitudes. This endorsement reflected all the hard work, effort and commitment shown by our Rosecliffe family of staff, students and their families as well as the local community.

In applying for this role, you should be committed to our values and your own professional development and buy into our culture of continual improvement.

Spencer Academies Trust

SAT 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. 

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:  http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf   

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 Miss C Martin, Office Manager on 0115 9346533 or cmartin@rosecliffespencer.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: Wednesday 8th January 2025

Interviews will take place on a 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