Start date: 1 September 2025

Lea Hall Academy
Hallmoor Road
Birmingham
B33 9QY
Telephone number: 0121 368 5791

Contact email: recruitment@fet.ac

Contract type: Permanent  

Interviews: 4 April 2025

We are looking for a highly effective creative and inspirational classroom teacher to join Lea Hall Academy, part of Forward Education Trust, a growing Multi Academy Trust established in 2017 serving special schools across the West Midland area. Lea Hall is a special school for up to 100 boys between the ages of 5 and 14 with Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. Some of the children also have diagnoses of ASD and ADHD.

All of our pupils have an Education Health and Care Plan which indicates the key target areas of child development. Teachers are supported by experienced teaching assistants to ensure that our children make expected progress against those targets.

The successful candidate will:

• be a highly skilled classroom teacher who is enthusiastic and motivated to help our students develop and reach their full potential
• have some experience of supporting and teaching pupils with SEMH needs in a specialist or mainstream setting
• be able to work collaboratively with support staff and senior leaders in order to plan and deliver high quality educational provision for our young people
• be empathetic to the complex needs of our pupils and also resilient to challenge; understanding that at times our pupils can display challenging behaviours which are a result of their special needs

We can offer you:

• a commitment to support you in developing new skills through a wide range of professional development opportunities and experiences
• the opportunity to make a huge contribution to the education and lives of children who respond very positively to high quality teaching
• a dedicated leadership team committed to supporting our staff

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

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please telephone the school on 0121 594 0890 to make an appointment.

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. 

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.

How to apply

To apply, please visit our website.

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 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.