Teaching Assistant

Clover Leys Spencer Academy, Derby, DE24 5AX

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  8 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £9,396.45 - £10,015.45 Annually (Actual) 15 hours per week. NJC 7 to 11 - Part Time - Term Time Only - Temporary

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for a dedicated, enthusiastic, and compassionate Teaching Assistant to join our vibrant school community. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about supporting children’s learning and helping them reach their full potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Work alongside the class teacher to support high‑quality teaching and learning across the classroom.
• Provide one‑to‑one or small‑group support to pupils who may need additional help with literacy, numeracy, or social skills.
• Assist in preparing lesson materials, classroom resources, and learning activities.
• Foster a positive, inclusive learning environment that supports the emotional and academic development of all pupils.
• Support children with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) where required, following individual education plans and guidance from the SENCo.
• Supervise pupils during break times, transitions, and other non‑classroom activities.
• Help maintain accurate records of pupil progress and behaviour, reporting to the class teacher as needed.
• Build strong, supportive relationships with staff, pupils, and families.

About You

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about working with children and supporting their development.
• Has excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Is patient, empathetic, and able to remain positive when faced with challenges.
• Demonstrates strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Shows initiative and can adapt to different classroom situations.
• Ideally has experience working in a primary school or childcare setting (not essential).
• Relevant qualifications (e.g., Level 2/3 Teaching Assistant) are desirable but not required depending on experience

Please contact Ms Fearon via info@cloverleysspencer.org.uk or 01332 949472 if you require any further information or would like to book in a school visit

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

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

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.

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
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/clover-leys-spencer-academy

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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