EYFS Class Teacher

Job start date: 6 January 2025  

Hours per week: Full time  

Erdington Hall Primary School
Ryland Road
Tyburn
Birmingham
B24 8JJ
Telephone number: 0121 464 3122

Contact email: recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk

Contract type: Permanent  

EYFS Class Teacher (Nursery) with Cover Teacher responsibilities across the school (until Nursery afternoon sessions commence).

Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement

Success through Endeavour

Ambition through Challenge

Strength through Diversity

We’re looking for an Early Years (Nursery) teacher to join our highly ambitious team who truly are dedicated in making a real difference to the lives of children at this wonderful school. As part of the Summit Learning Trust, you will have bespoke professional development opportunities and the chance to develop and further your career. You will also have the opportunity to work with colleagues from across schools, sharing resources and good practice.

We take great pride in developing a caring, creative and safe environment for our pupils and we are passionate about providing a rich and varied curriculum that inspires curiosity and enquiry.

Applicants for the post should have up-to-date knowledge and experience of the Early Years framework.

Are you our newest recruit?

Are you ready to really make a difference and join us on our journey?

This is a very exciting position for a teacher who is seeking excellent development opportunities.

The successful candidate will:

• have excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team

• be committed to working with parents, governors and the local community

• show a commitment to contributing to the wider life of the school

The successful candidate will be a class teacher in our school and will uniquely, have:

• the opportunity to share planning with colleagues across Summit Learning Trust

• the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking school and Trust

• be part of our exciting journey

• receive support from a strong and dynamic leadership team

About our school

Erdington Hall Primary School is looking to appoint a highly motivated professional to join our rapidly improving team. Erdington Hall is warm and welcoming and has enthusiastic and happy learners. To ensure the very best education for our children, we are seeking to appoint a dedicated, highly motivated and resilient teacher with a proven track record for raising standards. Children at Erdington Hall love coming to school and are keen to learn. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive school with high expectations and a commitment to providing the very best for all our children.

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

Visits to the Academy are encouraged. Please contact 0121 464 3122 to arrange this.

Our policies are available to view here

How to apply:

Apply via our website

Interview date: Monday 15 December 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 to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: 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.  

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.  

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

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.