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SalaryJob start date:2 September 2024
Hours per week: Full time
King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls
Turves Green
Birmingham
B31 4BP
Tele[hone number: 0121 515 0203
Email: s.killeen@nsg.kevibham.org
Contract type: Permanent
About this roll
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and inspiring Computer Science specialist to lead this successful and popular subject.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking and ambitious professional to join us.
The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner and have the ability to develop and implement curricular innovation. Candidates must be committed to raising all levels of attainment, support the whole school focus on teaching and learning, and are ready to engage with our impressive culture of professional development. About King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls
We are an ambitious and forward-thinking school and have been highly praised for our inclusive ethos and the attitudes and values of our pupils.
Strengths of the school include:
• a superb new state of the art school building
• excellent pastoral care and support
• motivated, well behaved pupils
• an ethos which values and develops all staff
• access to excellent professional development both within the school and across the Academy Trust
• supportive and committed staff who work as a team
• strong and improving exam results
• located in South Birmingham with excellent transport links by both road and rail
About the Academy Trust
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of “making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”. The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham, established in 2017, currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and five non-selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
A job description and an application form can be found on our website or can be obtained from: King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls, Turves Green, Northfield, Birmingham, B31 4BP / 0121 4648346 or email Miss S. Killeen: s.killeen@nsg.kevibham.org
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.
