Location: Portland Spencer Academy, Westwick Road, Bilborough, Nottingham, NG8 4HB, UK
Salary: Apprentice Rate
Education Phase: Primary
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Application Deadline: Friday, 4th July 2025
Interview Date: Thursday 10th July
About Us
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children? Do you believe in the power of education to transform futures? At Portland Spencer Academy, we are excited to invite a dedicated and enthusiastic individual to join our vibrant school community as a Teaching Assistant Apprentice!
As an Outstanding-rated primary school, we pride ourselves on our aspirational and inclusive approach to education. Here, every child is celebrated for their unique qualities, and for demonstrating their ASPIRE values.
As a Teaching Assistant Apprentice, you will play a vital role in supporting our children’s educational journey, helping them to thrive academically and personally. You will work alongside experienced teachers, gaining invaluable skills and insights while contributing to a positive and stimulating atmosphere where every child can flourish.
Join us at Portland Spencer Academy, where possibilities are endless, and together, we can achieve greatness! If you are ready to embark on this rewarding journey, we would love to hear from you.
We are incredibly proud of our aspirational school that believes every child can succeed and ASPIRE in all that they do. If you are looking to work in a school with children who want to achieve greatness, work alongside a team that succeeds together and engage in high quality CPD that shows possibilities are endless… Portland is the place for you.
Click here to read our termly newsletters to get a real sense of life in our wonderful school.
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)
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 2800 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
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. We are also required to request references prior to interview.
Closing date for applications Friday 4th July at 9 00 am
Interviews will take place on Thursday 10th July
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.
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
Job Description
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Benefits
Generous Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured) and BHN extra (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). For full details, click here: http://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits
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