Overview
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Location: Wyndham Street, Alvaston Derby DE24 0EP, UK
Salary: NJC 12- NJC 16 (£24556 - £26204)
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Education Phases: Primary
Job Roles: Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Working Patterns: Full-Time
Application Deadline: Friday, 10th October 2025
Interview Date: 16/10/2025
Visa Sponsorship Available: No
Is a Shared Job: No
About Us
Calling all Higher-Level Higher Level Teaching Assistants who are driven to make a difference…
* Can you make learning exciting and inspire children?
* Do you love to make a difference to the learning of all children, regardless of their start points?
* Can you make every moment count?
* Are you able to help children exceed expectations
If you said ‘YES’ to each of these, you could be the right person for Wyndham Spencer Academy!
Wyndham Spencer Academy is an outstanding primary school situated in Derby city. We are proud to share our status as a World Class School, which strives to be creative, inspiring and empowering our children and staff. As a Research School, our practice is rooted in evidence and staff engage in and with research as a cornerstone of quality first teaching to ensure our children achieve personal GREATness. We are a team of dedicated practitioners who strive to offer nothing but the best for our children. Would you like to be part of the next stage of our exciting journey?
Responsibilities and Qualities
* Is a creative thinker
* Puts children at the heart of decision making
* Has a ‘whatever it takes attitude’
* Is research driven and evidence informed
* Wants to make a difference to the lives of all children they support
* Is a team player
In Return, We Will Offer You
* A collaborative ethos, working with other schools and colleagues to develop day to day practice
* A creative and unique environment, rich in innovative approaches
* Access to high quality CPD through in-house training, the Derby Research School, working closely with the Teaching School Hub, and Spencer Academies Trust
* An inclusive and welcoming team to work alongside.
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 17 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.
The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.
School visits are warmly welcomed and will be taking place on Tuesday 6th May at 4pm and Thursday 8th May at 1:30pm. Please contact Mrs A.John on 01332 571153 or ajohn@wyndhamspencer.org.uk if you would like to come along and visit our school or have any other queries regarding the role.
Closing date & Shortlisting for applications – Friday 10th October - 8 am
Interviews will take place on – Thursday 16th October
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, 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
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