Solihull Sixth Form College
Widney Manor Road
Solihull
B91 3WR

Telephone number: 0121 704 2581

Email: recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk

Required for January 2025, full time

Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement
Success through Endeavour
Ambition through Challenge
Strength through Diversity

We are seeking applications from enthusiastic teachers who share our passion in teaching highly motivated, focused, and ambitious post-16 students; helping prepare each of them for the next crucial stages in their lives.

Teaching A-Level Computer Science and Applied IT to aspirational students who have selected and are qualified to study your subject will allow you to demonstrate your subject passion and expertise daily, and you will do so alongside a large, supportive team, all dedicated to delivering high quality outcomes for students in a well-resourced and well-equipped environment.

Successful applicants will be passionate about Computing, the opportunity to work in a post-16 environment and will show a determination to ensure every student succeeds. You will have a relevant degree or equivalent as well as a teaching qualification. Applicants with experience in either A-Level Computer Science and/or the Applied IT course should apply. Being part of our wider Media and IT team also means experience in Media or a desire to branch into this is an advantage. We encourage applications from applicants at all stages of their educational careers.

Please see the team information, job description and our teaching and learning strategy for further information.

The Sixth Form College, Solihull is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust.

Why work for us?
We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth. These include access to:

• employee assistance programme
• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression
• wellbeing advocates
• lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme
• Health Protection Scheme alongside Flu Jab and Eyecare Vouchers
• generous employer pension schemes

How to apply:

Please refer to the job description and apply online via our website.

 Please note we do not accept CVs.

Interviews will take place on Monday 21 October 2024.

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.

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.