Primary Teacher

James Brindley Academy

Bell Barn Road

Birmingham

B15 2AF

Telephone Number: 0121 666 6409

Email Address: yarwoode@jamesbrindley.org.uk

Job Start Date: February 2022

Hours: Part time - flexible, 2 days/week (0.4 fte)

Contract Type: Fixed term for Maternity Cover, (expected to last for 10 months from February 2022)

Job Information: Job title: Primary Teacher

Based at: JBA Short Term Provision (home tuition) (but can be based at other locations within James Brindley).

This is an excellent time to join James Brindley as the Academy continues to implement a strategic vision developed by pupils, staff and other stakeholders. Join us to ‘Think Differently to inspire young people to overcome all barriers and achieve their dreams.’

James Brindley is a stand-alone Academy based in a wide variety of locations across the City of Birmingham. In the course of a school year, we educate over 3,000 young people for periods ranging from a few days in hospital to several years in one of our teaching centres. The majority of our young people have complex medical needs, and many have been out of education for a significant period of time prior to joining the Academy. We offer a full-time curriculum to young people from EYFS to KS5 and our aim is always to enable them to ‘close the gap’ and to make outstanding progress during the time they are with us.

The role involves teaching pupils with medical needs who are unable to access mainstream education. This may take place online or in the pupil’s home. Many of our pupils have gaps in their education and we strive to implement creative teaching strategies to reduce the impact of educational disadvantage, enabling all our pupils to access learning and make expected progress. You should be passionate about developing and supporting the needs of the whole child and committed to enabling all pupils to achieve their potential. We are looking for a qualified temporary Primary teacher with tenacity, positivity and experience of teaching EYFS, KS1 and KS2 You should have QTS and a track record as a consistently good practitioner. Duties include teaching a variety of pupils, sometimes with PMLD ensuring that work is differentiated to meet the specific needs of pupils who require teaching in the home.

You will be providing tuition online and in the homes of your students, you will be required to travel across all areas of the city.

Closing Date: 30 November 2021, 8am

Interviews to be held on 9 December 2021

For further details and application form please visit the website

Completed Applications to be submitted by email to: vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.