Job start date: 1 January 2025 Hours per week: Full time Waverley School Yardley Green Road Bordesley Green Birmingham B9 5QA Telephone number: 0121 566 6607 Contact email: Applicationswaverley.bham.sch.uk Contract type: Permanent Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 1900 pupils on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership and management and improve outcomes for children and young people. Waverley School is an all through school for pupils aged 4 to 19. It also has a Resource Base for pupils with cognition and learning difficulties. In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a ‘Good’ School. Waverley Studio College is a specialist academy catering for 14 to 19 year old students which offers both academic and vocational qualifications. The secondary phase of Waverley School has 1174 pupils including those in the Sixth Form. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students. Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do. We are looking for a highly motivated and committed individual to join our team as a Religious Education Teacher. The ideal candidate will have an excellent track record of teaching and student progress within a successful secondary school. They will be expected to provide outstanding lessons to ensure excellence and achievement for all learners, with a true commitment to raising standards. You will need to have experience of using a variety of approaches to continually enhance teaching and learning of general Science across full age and ability range for KS3. Teaching and learning for KS4 will be combined Science and also within the triple Science option. You will also need to have excellent communication skills and the ability to forge strong working relationships within the Science team and Trust as a whole. “Pupils have a strong understanding of diversity, respect and tolerance, including for different family lifestyles” – Ofsted 2021. We welcome informal visits to the school. How to apply: For an application pack, please visit our website Completed applications should be sent to: Applicationswaverley.bham.sch.uk Applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on the school application form will be accepted. 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.