Lead Practitioner: Quality of Education

Job start date: 1 September 2024  

Hours per week: Full time  

Selly Park Girls' School
5 Selly Park Road
Birmingham
B29 7PH
Telephone number: 0121 472 1238

Email: recruitment@sellyparkgirls.org

Contract type: Permanent

Selly Park Girls’ School (11-16) is known for its high expectations, academic success, first-class education and its innovative approach. Our vision and values underpin all we do. Indeed, everyone who knows us or visits our school speaks of our distinct ethos.

We attract staff who are committed to making a difference in the lives of our pupils. From teachers, governors and senior leaders to administrators and support staff. Everyone has a role to play in the success of the school.

We are looking for a talented and ambitious Lead Practitioner to will play a leading and highly visible role in the improvement of Quality of Education for all students, ensuring the highest standards of curriculum planning, pedagogy and delivery; leading in the monitoring, evaluation and review of standards and provision across the curriculum.

Selly Park Girls’ School provides all staff with access to a wide range of CPD and training opportunities, which we hope you will contribute to and benefit from. We value our staff as professionals and collaborative work is the key to our success. We want our staff to support each other, to share best practice, to work alongside local schools and agencies, to engage the local community and support families. We have a lively health and well-being programme which takes place at the end of every term and we have an established workload committee. We are determined that staff achieve a healthy work/life balance so that they are happy and have the energy to have a decisive impact whilst at school.

Full details of the role can be found in the Applicant Information Pack 

To apply, please visit our website

Informal inquiries should be sent to: recruitment@sellyparkgirls.org

Interviews are expected to be held on during the week commencing 11 March 2024.

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 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.