Overview
Location: Spencer Academies Trust – multiple locations, UK
Salary: NJC23-24 (£17.90-£18.41 per hour)
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Patterns: Part-Time;
Application Deadline: Friday, 17 October 2025
Interview Date: TBC
Visa Sponsorship Available: No
Is a Shared Job: No
About Us
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Spencer Academies Trust as a Clerk to the Governing Body for 3 LGBs in the Chilwell/Beeston Area.
Our websites and Twitter feeds will give you a great idea of the variety of work we engage in, the pace and scope of our days, and become familiar with members of our fabulous team.
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 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 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.
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 find out more about working with us, then please contact Andrew Adams, aadams@spencertrust.org.uk
The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted.
Closing date for applications 17 October 2025.
Interviews are TBC. 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. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.
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.
Job Description
Please see attached.
Responsibilities
* Clerk to the Governing Body for 3 Local Governing Bodies (LGBs) in the Chilwell/Beeston Area.
* Support governance meetings, arrange venues, prepare agendas, take minutes, and ensure actions are tracked.
* Assist with governance documentation, compliance, and records in line with statutory and Trust requirements.
Qualifications and Benefits
* Generous Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes).
* Recognition of local government and academy continuous service.
* For full details, click here: https://www.spencertrust.org.uk/employee-benefits
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