Start date: 1 September 2025

High Point Academy
Friar Park Road
Wednesbury
WS10 0JS
Telephone number: 0121 809 0885

Contact email: recruitment@fet.ac

Contract type: Permanent  

High Point Academy opened in September 2021 for children and young people aged 11-16 years who all have an Education Health and Care Plan and a diagnosis of Autism. The school is part of Forward Education Trust, who specialise in SEN provision. We are increasing our pupil numbers in September 2023 which has allowed for this fantastic new role.

We are on the lookout for an outstanding primary or secondary teacher who has a real passion for teaching Maths.

At High Point we have two curriculum pathways “Connectors” and “Developers”. Students on our Developer pathway typically are working at least 3 years below age related expectations and their formal curriculum is focussed around developing independence life and functional skills. Our Students on our Connector pathway are working at 2 years below age related up to age related expectations.

Our pupils across both phases have access to maths lessons across their timetable. You would be responsible for teaching up to age-appropriate maths up to Foundation GCSE level, so a strong subject knowledge is essential.

You will respond to the individual needs of our students and help them to build strategies to minimise the barriers to their learning; enabling them to prepare for adult life both educationally and emotionally.

You will be part of a strong caring staff community, who work together to achieve the best we can for the young people we work with. We all share the nurturing and enthusiastic approach which cascades our mission and ethos across the school.

“Ambitious aspirations, Challenge the impossible and independence for all”.

We encourage all prospective candidates to visit the school by arrangement prior to making an application. We welcome applications from Primary and Secondary Colleagues along with ECT teachers.

Forward Education Trust is committed to recruiting and retaining the highest quality staff. To do this, we have an Employee Value Proposition offering a range of benefits to help our staff on a personal and professional level, which includes:

• Teacher’s Pension Scheme or Support Staff Local Government Pension Scheme employer contribution
• FET HUB – all employee information all in one place
• paid for health cash plan - employee and dependent children benefit, with option to add partner
• employee questionnaire - consultation with staff on a range of issues and ideas 
• salary sacrifice scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• access to the NHS approved Thrive app, supporting mental health and wellbeing
• comprehensive induction and probation support and an ongoing performance management and appraisal system
• easy purchase scheme, salary deduction
• Smart Tech in association with Currys
• enhanced Employee Assistance Programme
• free, totally confidential advice with face-to-face consultations
• personal and professional learning and development, including FLICK online learning 
• access to discounts and offers from Reward Gateway and MyPerks
• occupational health service to support the needs of individual staff
• staff recognition, e-cards to celebrate success among colleagues, awards throughout the year in line with Trust behaviours and values     
• Mental Health First Aiders
• policies being developed to support positive health and wellbeing, family friendly working, special leave of absence, flexible working and menopause
• a commitment to develop new ideas to show we really value what you do for our children

Interviews: TBC

The Trust may review applications upon receipt and may call applicants for interview prior to the advert closing date. Therefore, you are encouraged to make an early application for this role and we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

Please note that only fully completed Forward Education Trust Application forms will be accepted; we will not read accompanying Curriculum Vitae (CV) or accept them in place of an application form.

If you do not hear from the school within 14 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. 

How to Apply

Please apply online. 

Forward Education Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate must promote this ethos and 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. 

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

Rehabilitation of offenders: 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.

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