Teaching Assistant

John Port Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE65 6LU

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2026

• Closing date

  1 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,563.00 - £18,696.00 Annually (Actual) NJC2 to 6 - Part Time - Term Time Only (including inset days)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Principal’s Welcome

At John Port Spencer Academy, we believe in unlocking the potential of every student and supporting them to achieve the very best. Every child has a champion - staff dedicated to nurturing their talents, ambitions, and wellbeing. Our university-style campus offers a vibrant, inspiring environment where curiosity thrives, and learning knows no bounds. Our values of joy, progress, success, and acting with care, kindness, respect, and integrity guide everything we do. Joining our team means becoming part of a collaborative, innovative community, passionate about making a real difference every day and supporting each other to grow professionally and personally.

About John Port Spencer Academy
John Port Spencer Academy is a thriving, forward-thinking school at the heart of our community, serving over 2,000 students from Year 7 through Sixth Form. Our university-style campus, with dedicated subject teaching spaces, specialist science labs, arts facilities, and extensive sports facilities, creates a wonderful environment for both students and staff. We offer a broad, ambitious curriculum designed to challenge students and help them excel academically, personally, and socially. Every student has a champion here - staff who guide, support, and celebrate their achievements. We have a strong community spirit and high expectations. For staff, John Port is a place to grow, collaborate, and contribute to something truly special, where everyone is encouraged and excellence is celebrated.

The Role
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our supportive team in our large secondary academy. The successful candidate will work closely with teachers and support staff to help students access learning, build confidence, and achieve their potential. This role is ideal for someone who is patient, positive and passionate about making a different in young people’s lives.

Key Responsibilities include:
- Supporting students in lessons, both in small groups and on a one-to-one basis
- Assisting teachers with classroom activities and resources
- Helping to promote positive behaviour and engagement
- Supporting students with additional learning or pastoral needs
- Contributing to a safe, inclusive, and encouraging learning environment

We are looking for someone who:
- Enjoys working with young people and building positive relationships
- Has good communication and teamwork skills
- Is flexible, reliable, and proactive
- Has experience working with children or young people (desirable but not essential)

We offer:
- A welcoming and supportive staff team
- Opportunities for training and professional development
- Experience in a large, dynamic secondary school environment

If you are passionate about education and supporting students to help them achieve their potential we would be very pleased to hear from you.

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

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.

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 John Port Spencer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 2023 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: John Port Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/john-port-spencer-academy

John Port Spencer Academy is a large, vibrant and energetic community school demonstrating a common purpose and ambition - to ensure the very best learning experience for each and every one of our students. We are a Good School (Ofsted 2022) and we recognise that every student has their own individual strengths, gifts and talents; our aim is to ensure that these are all nurtured and developed to their full potential. John Port Spencer Academy is part of the Spencer Academies family of schools.

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