Job start date: 1 September 2025 Hours per week: Full time Cherry Orchard Primary School Cherry Orchard Road Birmingham B20 2LB Telephone number: 0121 554 0862 Contact email: vacancycherryorchard.bham.sch.uk Contract type: Permanent We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated class teacher to join our talented team. ECTs welcome to apply. Cherry Orchard is a happy, vibrant and diverse 2-form entry LA maintained primary school with a nursery, and a resource base for children with autism. Our strong ethos is centred around our core values and our vision statement, ‘We care, we learn, we succeed’. We can offer you: • a friendly, dedicated and supportive staff team and governing body • polite and well-behaved children who love learning and are proud of their school • a supportive community of parents and carers • a commitment to your career development and a successful history of supporting practitioners to develop their teaching and leadership skills • an understanding and recognition of the importance of staff wellbeing The successful candidate will demonstrate: • effective classroom management with calm, consistent routines and high expectations • engaging, inclusive lessons that challenge and support all pupils • a commitment to build on existing subject knowledge and expertise, reflecting on feedback and the application of evidence-based teaching practice • an understanding of pupils’ emotional, social and academic needs • the ability to work effectively with colleagues, parents and other professionals So why not come and join our team and play a part in our journey to becoming an ‘outstanding’ school? How to apply: You can download a job description and person specification and Apply Online Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above. For further information, please email: vacancycherryorchard.bham.sch.uk or call the school office on 0121 554 0862. Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged on the following dates and times: Monday 31 March 9:30am, Monday 31 March 4pm, Wednesday 2 April 9:30am, Wednesday 2 April 4pm, Thursday 3 April 2pm. Please call the school office on 0121 554 0862 to arrange. After shortlisting, interviews will take place on Wednesday 30 April 2025. 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.