Job start date: negotiable
Hours per week: Full time (part-time applications will also be considered)
Selly Park Girls' School
5 Selly Park Road
Birmingham
B29 7PH
Telephone number: 0121 472 1238
Email: recruitment@sellyparkgirls.org Contract type: Permanent
We seek to appoint a candidate with experience of teaching Humanities at Key Stages 3 and 4 and has a sound knowledge and genuine passion for the subject area.
Selly Park Girls’ School is a high performing 11-16 school in the south of Birmingham with 780 girls on roll and a proven record of GCSE success.
We are a successful, vibrant, happy and oversubscribed school. We consistently rank as one of the top 10 Local Authority schools in Birmingham in terms of student progress. The school has been judged as significantly above the UK average in progress for the past three years, consistently scoring within the top 20% of schools nationally. In 2022 the school was awarded Secondary School of the Year at the Birmingham School Awards and were winners of the SSAT Educational Outcomes Award 2019 for exceptional student progress.
Selly Park Girls' School 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.
The successful candidate will: -
Be a qualified teacher with experience and skills of working with children in KS3 and KS4 - Plan and deliver lessons whilst following the national curriculum - Be passionate about providing quality education and support to young people - Be committed to supporting the vision, aims and values of Selly Park Girls' School - Actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion within the school
Full details of the role can be found in the Applicant Information Pack
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Interviews are expected to be held in the week commending 1 February 2024
Informal inquires are welcomed and can be sent to: recruitment@sellyparkgirls.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 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.
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