Teacher of English

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City Council Full time

Start date: 1 September 2024

Contract type: Permanent

King Edward VI King's Norton School for Boys

Northfield Road

Bournville

Birmingham

B30 1DY

This is a great opportunity to join our English Department leadership group. The specifics of the TLR will be developed with the candidate and the department leadership team and will be based on areas of need & expertise.

The school is willing consider applications from ECT's for a teacher of English post without Teacher Leader Responsibility for individuals who do not have the experience to lead on a specific area, please note this in your supporting letter.

Would you like to work in a school that invests in developing and growing its staff?

Are you a teacher who wants to make a difference and get the BEST out of your students? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen at King's Norton School for Boys. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated, organised and confident Teacher of English to join our team. We are looking for someone who loves their subject and can communicate and share that passion with their students, colleagues, and the wider community. The successful candidate must have a strong desire to continuously develop and improve their teaching practice, and have the highest expectations for our boys. Our academic results are impressive, and both English and maths results are above the National Average and well above the National average for boys.

The ideal candidate will have up-to-date knowledge and understanding of current developments in the teaching and learning of English to all students. They will have strong communication skills along with the enthusiasm needed to inspire the students they teach and their colleagues in the department.

At King Edward VI King's Norton School for Boys, we are proud of our journey and, with over 100 years of history, our school has many great traditions that live on in our ethos today. We maintain the best of these traditions and enhance them with the latest educational practice; this provides us with a blend of traditional values with a forward-looking approach to learning.

We are part of the King Edward VI Multi Academy Trust, which is a diverse family of schools serving Birmingham. The trust supports the school in our shared aim and values; to make Birmingham the best place to be educated. To achieve this, it is essential that we add value, academically, personally and culturally to our student's journey. We are proud of our curriculum, teaching, learning and the results they enable our students to achieve. We are proud of our students and the way they develop as individuals through their interactions and experiences. We are proud of the range of opportunities that we offer which take our students out of their comfort zone and help them to build character, self-worth and resilience.

Aspiration is essential to all of this; it is the key to continually striving for improvement. Our motto is: "Humani Semper Contendimus". – 'we humans are always striving'. It drives us in providing the highest quality, well-rounded education for the boys we serve.

Applicants should complete the school's application form and submit with a supporting letter maximum of two sides of A4 and return to Please do not delay in sending in your application as applications will be considered as they arrive. We do not intend to consider any application that arrives after 4:00pm on Friday 10 May.

If you'd like a tour of the school or an informal conversation with a member of our team, please contact Lewis Smith, Executive Assistant to Headteacher on or email and we will happily oblige.

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.

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