Overview
Location: Heanor Gate Spencer Academy, Derbyshire, DE75 7RA, UK
Salary: NJC 18-22 (£29,856-£31,903)
Education Phase: Secondary
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: Friday, 19th September 2025
Interview Date: Week beginning Monday 22nd September 2025
About Us
We are looking to appoint a motivated, dedicated, and dependable individual to join our newly established Wellbeing Team. The successful applicant will play a key role in delivering a variety of practical and emotional support strategies to students and their wider family or carer networks.
We are seeking someone who shares our commitment to helping every learner reach their full potential and to raising aspirations. The role will also involve delivering Early Help interventions and providing support to families in need of additional guidance.
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy is an ‘Outstanding’ secondary school and sixth form (Ofsted, June 2023) which is oversubscribed in Year 7 for the second successive year. We are extremely proud of our inspection report which is a testament to 7 years of school improvement.
Through an ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’, we believe that all of our students will achieve their very best educational outcomes. This ethos is at the heart of everything that we do. We want our students to believe that they can achieve whatever they want to with hard work, resilience and self-motivation. We deliver a challenging yet inspiring curriculum and an unrivalled level of academic and pastoral support, and believe that what we offer students will support them to achieve success in the classroom and beyond; academically, personally and socially. Through our curriculum and extra-curricular offer, we aim to instil students with a love of learning as well as helping them to become responsible, independent members of the community who go on to a range of destinations including Russell Group universities, higher level apprenticeship and local industry.
Values and Culture
We have a strong culture of professional development for teachers and support staff at all stages of their careers. Our ECT development plan is extensive with bespoke in-house training, closely aligned with the Spencer Academies Trust ECT programme. For experienced staff, our in-house CPD programme is bespoke to need. All of this is complemented by access to opportunities to pursue NPQ qualifications, alongside CPD provided by Spencer Alliance for Leadership and Teaching. We also have a close working partnership with the Chartered College of Teaching, providing routes into obtaining Chartered status.
Spencer Academies Trust
SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18,000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2,800 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 18 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, Vision and Beliefs
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.
Role Description
If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Megan Britton at mbritton@heanorgatespencer.org.uk or on 01773716396
The Spencer Academies Trust Safeguarding policy requires applications for this post to be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We also request references prior to interview. Closing date for applications: Friday 19th September 2025. Interviews will take place the week beginning Monday 22nd September 2025. 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, click on Register to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile, click on Sign In. Both routes allow you to feed your candidate information into vacancies and view the status of your application. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save data for future vacancies, click Apply Now at the bottom of this page. A video guide is available at https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656
Safeguarding and Diversity
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced DBS with Barred List Check and 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.
The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with dignity and respect regardless of protected characteristics. Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
Job Description
Please see the attached job description.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits. For details, visit Spencer Academies Trust – Employee Benefits. We also provide a broad wellbeing package, including free access to the on-site gym, staff support groups, and weekly wellbeing breakfast.
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