Start date: 1 September 2025 George Dixon Primary School City Road Harborne Birmingham B17 8LE Telephone number: 0121 675 2775 Contact email: enquirygeorgedixonprimary.bham.sch.uk Contract type: Permanent George Dixon Primary School is a vibrant, inclusive and diverse school where we welcome children from all around the world. We are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly skilled teacher who is looking for future leadership opportunities. To be considered, you will have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of pupils and bring energy, creativity and inter-personal skills necessary to inspire and motivate others. You will need to demonstrate the ability to engage and challenge pupils at all levels and enable strong progress in a creative curriculum. The successful candidates will: love teaching and be dedicated to making a difference to the lives of our pupils know the demands of the National Curriculum well, in the phase they teach demonstrate consistently high-quality teaching, and hold high expectations for behaviour and achievement work effectively within a team and uphold the values of the school have excellent communication skills have a commitment to inclusive education be resilient and have a positive attitude The children at George Dixon Primary School are the greatest asset and the teachers and leaders strive to make improvements to meet their needs. Informal visits to the school are strongly recommended. This post welcomes applicants with experience as well as those at the beginning of their teaching journey (ECTS encouraged to apply) Visit times can be arranged at your convenience, please call school to arrange. Shortlisted candidates will be observed teaching along with other interview tasks. Shortlisting: 16 May 2025 Interviews: WB 19 May 2025 How to apply Download Job description and Person specification. Please contact George Dixon Primary School Office for an application form on 0121 675 2775 or email enquirygeorgedixonprimary.bham.sch.uk All completed applications must be returned to George Dixon Primary School - email to enquirygeorgedixonprimary.bham.sch.uk This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an 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. Rehabilitation of offenders: 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. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.