Teaching Assistant - Level 2

Castleward Spencer Academy, Derby, DE1 2RJ

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  2 May 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  26 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,670.00 - £24,163.00 Annually (Actual) NJC 7 to 11 - Full Time - Term Time Only

Teaching Assistant - Level 2 job summary

About Us

Our school is a beacon of excellence in the heart of the Derby city centre. We pride ourselves on:

• A nurturing and inclusive ethos
• High academic standards and creative teaching approaches
• A richly diverse student community
• Strong leadership and a collaborative staff culture

The Role

As a Teaching Assistant, you will:

• Support pupils across EYFS, KS1, or KS2 (depending on experience)
• Assist in delivering engaging lessons and interventions
• Foster a positive and safe learning environment
• Work closely with teachers, senior leaders and other professionals to support all children across the school reach their full potential.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience working with children in an educational setting (school or nursery)
• A caring, patient, and proactive attitude
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting pupil welfare

We Offer

• A supportive and inspiring team
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• A vibrant school culture rooted in respect, ambition, and where children gain a life long love of learning
• The chance to make a real impact in children’s lives

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 Castleward Spencer Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 148 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Castleward Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/castleward-spencer-academy

Castleward Spencer Academy, Derby.

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