St Giles Spencer Academy
Location
Derby, Derbyshire | United Kingdom
Job description
37 hours per week,
Permanent, term time only + 2 weeks
NJC 34 – 38 (pro rata, actual salary: £38,277 - £41,942)
If you can answer ‘yes’ to all of the above, then we would like to receive an application from you !
St Giles Spencer Academy is an outstanding Primary Special Academy in Derby City. We are a warm, friendly and inclusive academy which meets the needs of pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities.
Due to the retirement of our current post-holder, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lead Practitioner to join our inclusive school. You will play a key role in the overall leadership and management of the Academy, working in collaboration with the Principal and our leadership team, having a specific responsibility for safeguarding. You will be a Senior Leader and will have a responsibility for leading on safeguarding and pastoral across two school sites and be the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
You will have had experience of successful leadership and management in a school or relevant organisation as well as experience of managing safeguarding, building relationships with children and families, particularly the most vulnerable, working and communicating effectively with external agencies and implementing and encouraging good safeguarding practices throughout a large team of people.
You will work collaboratively with other Senior Leaders and the Wider Leadership team to support the Principal in the strategic and operational leadership and management of the Academy, promoting its ethos and culture of high expectations and acting as a visible ambassador for the Academy and Spencer Academies Trust. As a Senior Lead Practitioner (Safeguarding and Pastoral), you will undertake a range of organisational and supervisory duties and discharge routine leadership functions including the line management of other leaders within the school.
You will safeguard all pupils and promote and maintain the safety and wellbeing of pupils and staff at all times and be the DSL across two school sites. With training if necessary, as a Senior Lead Practitioner, you should be able to assume responsibility and deal with day to day matters in the absence of the Principal. In addition, senior leaders will be expected to contribute to the Spencer Academies Trust, and support, where necessary, any of our Trust Schools.
This is a great opportunity for a leader who understands and is committed to the safety and welfare of children, and are both creative and motivated to support our pupils to become the very best they can be, both academically and socially.
If you want to be part of an innovative, forward thinking and outward facing special school; who are genuinely committed to investing in your professional development, then St Giles could be the academy for you.
If you would like to visit St Giles Spencer Academy before the closing date, please contact the school via 01332 343039 or [email protected]
Visits to the school are strongly recommended.
You can view our recruitment brochure and video by visiting our school website:
The 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 18,000 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 offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:
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, we have added a video to help guide you, please visit
In line with safer recruitment policies, references will be called for prior to interview.
Closing date for applications: Friday 15 March 2024, 12pm
Interview date: to be confirmed
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 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
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