Teacher
Clover Leys Spencer Academy, Derby, DE24 5AX26 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2026
Closing date
23 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 February 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £45,350.00 Annually (Actual) Main Pay Scale M1 - M6 (ECTs welcome)
Teacher job summary
At Clover Leys, we are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Class Teacher who shares our passion for providing an exceptional primary education. As a member of our team, you will help bring our REACH values—Resilience, Empathy, Ambition, Community and Health—to life in every aspect of school life. These values guide our teaching, shape our relationships and underpin the culture that makes Clover Leys such a supportive and inspiring place to work and learn.
In this role, you will create engaging, purposeful learning experiences that nurture children’s curiosity, independence and confidence. You will support pupils to develop resilience in their learning, show empathy towards others, strive for ambition in their achievements, contribute positively to our community, and understand the importance of physical and emotional health. Working alongside a dedicated and friendly staff team, you will play a key part in shaping the future of our growing school.
We are looking for class teachers who bring energy, commitment and a genuine passion for helping every child succeed. Our ideal candidates are highly motivated, approaching each day with positivity, creativity and a determination to provide the very best learning experiences. They are inclusive practitioners who value every child, celebrate diversity and ensure that all pupils—whatever their background, needs or starting points—feel supported, challenged and able to thrive.
We are seeking teachers who set ambitious goals for our children, believing in their potential and creating a classroom culture where pupils are inspired to persevere, take risks and achieve their very best. Equally important are excellent communication skills: the ability to build strong relationships with pupils, work collaboratively with colleagues and engage openly and professionally with parents and carers. At Clover Leys, high expectations sit alongside warmth, empathy and a deep belief in the capabilities of every learner.
We would love to welcome you to Clover Leys to experience our wonderful school for yourself. Stepping through our doors, you’ll feel the calm, purposeful atmosphere and see children who are enthusiastic, curious, and eager to learn. A tour gives you the chance to meet our friendly team, explore our beautiful learning spaces, and get a true sense of the values and vision that make Clover Leys such a special place to work. We believe the best way to understand our school is to see it in action—so please come and have a look around; we’re excited to show you what makes Clover Leys a fantastic place to begin the next chapter of your teaching career.
At Clover Leys, you’ll join a supportive, inspiring team where collaboration and care are at the heart of our work. We provide excellent CPD and training, with clear opportunities for professional growth at every stage of your career. This role gives you the chance to make a genuine difference to children’s lives within a warm, ambitious school community.
As part of the Spencer Academies Trust, you’ll also benefit from a strong professional network, high‑quality development programmes and additional staff wellbeing and career opportunities.
Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
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.
Further information about the job
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Clover Leys Spencer Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 116 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Clover Leys Spencer Academy website
Do you want to be part of a team in a brand new school?
Can you help to give our children the best start possible?
Will you bring imagination and excitement to provide our children with magical memories?
How to Apply
To apply to work with Spencer Academies Trust, please complete your candidate profile via our new Every Portal. If you are accessing our Every portal for the first time, you will need to register to add and save your candidate profile information, before tagging your profile to this vacancy. We have added a video to help guide you, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656
If you wish to discuss this role, please do not hesitate to email us via info@cloverleysspencer.org.uk
Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.
Spencer Academies Trust 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 2200 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 one 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.
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