Departmental Assistant

Arnold Hill Academy are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed departmental assistant to join our team. You will provide supervision for classes when the regular teacher is absent. You will also provide administrative support to one or more of our faculty teams. 
This is a responsible role, which will make an important contribution to the school’s improvement programme and will primarily involve taking sole charge of a group of students on short term basis. You will be joining a forward looking and dynamic team which is warm and friendly, but which has high expectations of everyone. The position is an ideal opportunity for someone wishing to pursue a career in education. We guarantee every member of staff CPD and a further comprehensive programme of professional development is available through our partnership with the Spencer’s Academy Trust
SAT 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 15 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.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Hannah Froch, HR Administrator, on hannah.froch@arnoldhillacademy.co.uk 

Applications for this post must be submitted on our online application form, which can be found at www.satrust.com/vacancies, or by clicking the “apply now” link.

In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview.

Closing date for applications 9am 01/10/2021.
Interviews will take place on 06/10/2021.

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.