Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Millside Spencer Academy, Loughborough, Nottinghamshire, LE12 6AS

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: NJC12-16

What skills and experience we're looking for

Please refer to the attached job description

What the school offers its staff

Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Full time – Term Time Only

NJC12 -16 - Actual Salary £24,555 to £26,204

One year fixed term to cover maternity – To start 1st September 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Millside Spencer Academy for a Level 3 Teaching Assistant. Millside opened in September 2022 and moved into a modern, purpose-built school in September 2023. Millside is a happy school which aims to provide a good education and irresistible curriculum for our children. We strive to give our children the opportunity to unlock their potential and SHINE.

If you would like a tour of the school prior to applying for this post, please contact Hollie Fensome (School Administrator) on 01509 974255

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.

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: Friday 20th June

Interviews will take place on a date to be confirmed.

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 visithttps://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.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Millside Spencer Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 128 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Millside Spencer Academy website
• Email address: hfensome@millsidespencer.org.uk
• Phone number: 01509974255
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/millside-spencer-academy

Arranging a visit to Millside Spencer Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hfensome@millsidespencer.org.uk.

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