Overview
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Location: Sunnyside Spencer Academy, Great Hoggett Drive, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, NG9 4HQ, UK
Salary: MPS
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Education Phases: Primary;
Working Patterns: Full-Time;
Application Deadline: Monday, 6th October 2025
Interview Date: 14th October 2025
Visa Sponsorship Available: No
Is a Shared Job: No
About Us
Do you want to be part of a creative team who bring ‘awe and wonder’ into children’s education? Do you want to help us continue to develop life-long learners through stimulating learning environments, hands-on experiences and celebrating the whole child?
We are looking forward to finding someone who would love to have an opportunity to work in our EYFS unit which includes FS1 and FS2. This exciting position is for an EYFS teacher working alongside strong nursery/EYFS practitioners in the unit. We strive to provide the very highest standards of education within a caring, exciting and stimulating environment. Our children are excited by our EYFS SHINE curriculum and challenged to achieve their full potential. At Sunnyside Spencer Academy, we believe in our children and school community. Our school is a place ‘where all grow and shine’. We know the combination of care, opportunity and challenge ensures that our children thrive and achieve their best.
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 iwebb@sunnysidespencer.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 Monday 6th October 2025
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 14th October 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 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
Safeguarding
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 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
Please see attached for Job Description and Person Specification
Benefits
Generous Teacher's Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes) Recognition of local government and academy continuous of service. For full details, click here: https://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits
Eligibility and Application Details
Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires that applications are submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. Closing date: Monday 6th October 2025. Interviews: Tuesday 14th October 2025. Early application encouraged.
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