ICT Instructor

Calthorpe Academy

Darwin Street

Birmingham

B12 0TP

Telephone number: 0121 773 4637

Email Address: vacancies@calthorpe.thrive.ac

Required as soon as possible.

Hours per week: 36.5 per week, term time only

Contract type: Permanent

Calthorpe Academy is seeking to appoint an exciting and innovative ICT/Digital skills Instructor, who will enjoy excellent resources and be provided with a stimulating environment. You will plan, develop and deliver a sequential ICT/Digital Skills curriculum that compliments each pupils stage of learning and select suitable resources to accompany curriculum implementation. All staff are trained in behaviour management and augmentative communication techniques. Special educational needs experience is desirable for this position.

Calthorpe Academy is part of Thrive Educational Partnership and is also a National Support School working in collaboration with various settings. Please acknowledge that staff may be deployed to support other academies. We are an educational community in which learners’ feel happy, proud and are enthusiastic about their learning. We currently have 427 students with profound, severe and complex needs of which 101 learners are on roll in Post 16.

Calthorpe Academy has been rated ‘good’ by OFSTED following our inspection in October 2023.

The role is 36.5 hours per week. Although the working pattern for the role will be term-time only, the successful candidate will be paid all year round to account for any extra planning necessary.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Closing date: 11 December 2023, midday

Application forms and details can be obtained via the website

Completed forms should be sent by email to: vacancies@calthorpe.thrive.ac

Interviews held on Friday 17 December 2023.

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 necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.

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.

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.