Class Teacher (Maternity cover)

Ashwood Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 8FT

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  20 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - Up to 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: M1 - M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Must have a sound understanding and be able to demonstrate skills and attributes involved in effective leadership
• A proven excellent classroom practitioner, willing and able to teach any year group as directed by the Principal
• Able to plan, organise, model and resource an outstanding and stimulating learning environment for individual children and groups of children and deliver, evaluate and assess learning
• Knowledge of how to teach reading, including phonics
• Must understand and be able to demonstrate the expectations in the new Ofsted Framework and in particular regarding effective leadership and management
• Understanding and be able to demonstrate current good practice
• How to create and use scaffolds to support learning
• Have a sound understanding and be able to demonstrate how assessment and data support school improvement and the drive for high standards
• Must be able to present data in such a way as to support the effective tracking of individual pupil progress
• Have a sound knowledge and understanding of current strategies used to narrow the gap between different groups of pupils
• Good knowledge of the relevant legislation and guidance within the education sector

Understanding of and the ability to engage positively with issues related to equality of opportunity

What the school offers its staff

Local Teacher 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.satrust.com/employee-benefits

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Ashwood Spencer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 651 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ashwood Spencer Academy website
• Email address: info@ashwoodspencer.org.uk
• Phone number: 01332 348356
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ashwood-spencer-academy

Ashwood Spencer Academy part of Spencer Academies Trust
Amber Street, Derby, DE24 8FT.
Ashwood is a friendly primary academy in the Southern Derbyshire community of Osmaston. The Principal is Mrs Baines-Chambers. Children are welcomed from early years through to 11
We are dedicated to providing exemplary teaching and learning for all our children. Our DREAM curriculum ensures creativity is at its heart- encouraging oracy, tolerance and collaboration. Our aim is to develop respectful individuals, who aspire to follow their DREAMs.

Ashwood is a magical place that offers enriching experiences within a loving and stimulating environment. At Ashwood we value our close relationships with our parents, governors and the community; working in partnership to enable our pupils to have the best possible start in their educational journey.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity and academy sponsor, which is committed to ensuring that every child, regardless of background, has access to an outstanding education and real choices in life. We have a successful track record of providing high quality teaching and learning which ensures improved outcomes for children and young people. The Trust mission statement reflects our vision and aim for all Trust schools. Our highly-successful network of 17 schools (8 Secondary and 9 Primary) educates students across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham City, Derby City and Leicestershire:

Vision
Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, which provides an outstanding education for local children. Our Trust is a model of national excellence. We work collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcomes for all young people, in an environment where partnership is valued and success is celebrated. Our education delivers real life experiences for students, promotes independent enquiry and stimulates intellectual curiosity; whilst developing a strong sense of individual responsibility and a personal belief and confidence. All of our students fulfil their potential and make unparalleled progress. They are fully prepared for the next phase of their education and have unrivalled opportunities to become future leaders.

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.

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