Teacher - Primary – Early Years/Key Stage 1

The Children, Staff and Governors of Inkersall Spencer Academy are looking to appoint an excellent, highly motivated and committed individual to join our team.

We are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner who has high expectations, can inspire and motivate all learners to achieve their full potential and deliver consistently high quality learning opportunities for all children.

This is a full- time post in Early Years or Key Stage 1. An understanding of EYFS expectations and assessments would be an advantage.

Inkersall is a great place to teach, with supportive staff whose aim is to ensure all pupils achieve the best they can. We are a strong team and wellbeing is at the heart of all we do.

We are looking for individuals with the following qualities:

• Have high expectations and willing to develop strong relationships with our families.
• Excellent practitioners keen to develop their skills
• Ability to passionately demonstrate flexible teaching strategies
• Going the extra mile for our children
• Committed to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
• Become part of our strong team.

Our children are looking for a teacher who:

· Puts children at the heart of their decision making

· Has a ‘whatever it takes attitude’ to remove barriers to learning

· Wants to make a difference to the lives of all children they teach

· Is a team player with a sense of humour

In return, as part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we can offer you

· A collaborative ethos, working with other schools and colleagues to develop day to day practice and continue your journey

· An inclusive and welcoming team to work with, collaboratively

· A friendly, supportive and professional team of staff

· A commitment to provide Continuing Professional Development

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 16000 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.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or arrange a visit, please contact Michelle Lewis on 01246472370 or email mlewis@inkersallspencer.org.uk

Visit dates: - 26th April 2024 - 1.30pm

30th April 2024 - 4 pm

3rd May 2024 – 9.30am and 3:30pm

Please submit your application by no later than Friday 10TH May 2024. Our application deadlines can end earlier, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible as we will contact you before the closing date.

Previous applicants need not apply

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.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

Job Description

Please see attached job description

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit: http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £30,000.00-£43,709.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

• QTS (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 02/09/2024