Level 2 Teaching Assistant (supporting children with SEMH)
Portland Spencer Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 4HB7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
22 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: TTO - 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 8 Months
Pay scale
- NJC07-11
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly skilled, committed and flexible Level 2 Teaching Assistant, with experience of working with SEMH children, to join our friendly and supportive team. Portland Spencer Academy is part of the Spencer Academies Trust and as such benefits from a range of opportunities for further development.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has the desire to work in our inclusive and child-centred school where we believe every child can ASPIRE and succeed;
- An excellent practitioner who has relevant experience and/or qualifications to support children with additional SEMH needs;
- An individual who has an understanding and experience of working with children with SEMH difficulties in mainstream or specialist settings and responds positively and with patience to the challenges these children face;
- Someone who has high expectations of children’s learning and can motivate children so they can flourish and achieve their potential;
- A person who builds strong relationships with children based on clear boundaries, empathy and fairness with a strong understanding of trauma informed practice;
- Someone who understands our community and our passion for inclusion and who is able to build supportive relationships within a team for the benefit of the children;
- Someone who is reflective and continually seeks to improve their practice;
- An energetic individual who smiles often, challenges positively and drives change for the benefit of all;
- Someone who has patience, resilience and a desire to make a difference;
- An individual who starts each day afresh with positivity and enthusiasm;
- has relevant qualifications and training i.e. NVQ/CACHE in working with children
- has excellent literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
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!
What the school offers its staff
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 isan 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 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.
If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Debbie Batterbee HR contact in school: 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.
Commitment to safeguarding
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.
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About Portland Spencer Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Portland Spencer Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@portlandspencer.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01159155747
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!
Arranging a visit to Portland Spencer Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@portlandspencer.org.uk.
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