Assistant Headteacher: English KS2 Leader and Leader for another subject
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- Aston Tower Community Primary School, Upper Sutton Street, Birmingham, B6 5BE
- Salary
- L4 to L8
- Closing date
- 7 Feb 2025
- Reference
- JOB002995
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- Sector
- Education
- Job Type
- Schools / Academies - Leadership Roles, Deputy / Assistant headteacher, Schools / Academies - Teaching roles, Primary School, English, Key Stage 2
- Contract Type
- Full time permanent
- Working Pattern
- See advert details
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Job start date: 28 April 2025 or 1 September 2025
Hours per week: Full time
Aston Tower Community Primary School
Upper Sutton Street
Birmingham
B6 5BE
Telephone number: 0121 327 0339
Contact email: vacancies@astontower.bham.sch.uk
Contract type: Permanent
Want to lead an area at the heart of school life?
Do you have an expertise in teaching English at Key Stage 2?
Are you looking for the opportunity to lead across the school and work strategically with the Headteacher and Deputy Teacher?
The role:
We seek a highly successful teacher, ideally with recent Key Stage 2 experience, to lead English in Key Stage 2 along with another subject to be agreed upon. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside our experienced Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher, and maintain our high standards as recognised at our October 2024 inspection. This identified the school’s outstanding work. Aston Tower has also been awarded the Leading Parent Partnership Award recognising our excellent work with parents.
The school:
Aston Tower is a popular two-form entry multi-cultural school that serves a community which really values and supports our work. We have friendly, responsive and enthusiastic children whose attitudes to learning were described as ‘excellent’ by Ofsted along with their outstanding behaviour. Our staff team is skilled, caring, and committed; trustees are keen to be involved and highly supportive. The school is very well-resourced. Our well-kept modern premises are set in spacious grounds which lend themselves to being further developed to promote our pupils’ learning. This term we are opening a resource base for pupils with Special Educational Needs following approval from the Department for Education (DfE).
Potential candidates are invited to discuss this opportunity and visit the school.
How to apply:
An application form and person specification are available from our website
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.
Company
Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.
We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion. We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.
Information for applicants with a disability
We are a proud Disability Confident Employer. We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).
If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.
The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence.
There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:
- A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
- An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
- A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
- A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
- A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.
We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.
In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.
Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.
For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies
- Website
- http://birmingham.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 0121 675 7070
- Location
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Birmingham
West Midlands
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United Kingdom
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