Class Teacher - To work in our Enhanced Resource Unit
Brackensdale Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 4BS20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
4 September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
16 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday - 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a driven and enthusiastic teacher who is passionate about making a difference to children’s lives?
Do you have what it takes to engage and inspire our curious and eager young learners?
Are you passionate about inclusive education and making a real difference in the lives of children with special educational needs?
Brackensdale Spencer Academy is seeking a committed and enthusiastic Enhanced Resource Teacher to join our dedicated team and lead high-quality provision for pupils within our Enhanced Resource Unit (ER).
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a supportive and forward-thinking academy that prioritises inclusive education for all learners.
Brackensdale Spencer Academy is a warm and welcoming, two-form entry primary school located in Mackworth,
Derby. We are also proud to be part of the Spencer Academies Trust, a highlysuccessful MAT based in the East Midlands.
As our Enhanced Resource Teacher, you will play a key role in delivering tailored learning experiences for children with a range of needs, including ASC, communication and interaction differences, and complex learning profiles. You will work closely with the SENDCo, teaching assistants, parents, and external professionals to ensure each child reaches their full potential.
This post is suitable for an experienced teacher looking for a fresh, exciting opportunity, or a newly qualified teacher looking for their first teaching role.
The successful candidate must be a person with energy, passion and commitment who can instil a love of learning by delivering inspirational and fun lessons to enthused, confident children with a range of needs and starting points.
We ask a great deal of our staff and in return we offer an outstanding opportunity for the right person to make a real impact on children’s lives and the vibrant community we serve, as well as developing their own career in our successful and innovative Trust. You will have access to first class training and mentoring which will enable you to enhance your practice quickly and develop as a leader should you wish to do so.
You will join our vibrant and forward-looking team of highly dedicated, collaborative and supportive colleagues who have the drive to make a real difference to our pupils and the wider community.
If you share our vision of delivering a high quality and distinctive education, where no child is left behind, it would be great to arrange a visit prior to application. We welcome applications from all and are dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for all.
If you wish to discuss this role, please do not hesitate to contact Joanna McGregor, Principal, at info@brackensdalespencer.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 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.VisionSpencer 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. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.
Closing date for applications: 5th June 2025
Interviews will take place on:
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.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.
SpencerAcademies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
What the school offers its staff
Generous Teacher’s / Local Government Pension Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
BHN extra (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes).
For full details, click here: http://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Brackensdale Spencer Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 479 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Brackensdale Spencer Academy website
- Email address
- jbuchanan@brackensdalespencer.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01332341171
Arranging a visit to Brackensdale Spencer Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jbuchanan@brackensdalespencer.org.uk.
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