Job start date: 1 September 2025 Hours per week: Full time Grove School Grove Lane Lozells And East Handsworth Birmingham B21 9HB Telephone number: 0121 464 4669 Contact email: pardeep.kaurgrove.bham.sch.uk Contract type: Permanent The school was inspected in October 2023. Grove continues to be a good school. Grove School is a 3 form-entry mixed primary school for pupils aged 3 - 11 years, which currently has 678 pupils on roll. It is a multicultural school in an area of high deprivation. Our parents, staff and governors are ambitious for our pupils. The school community works to help every pupil achieve their very best. On entering Grove, you will feel the warmth and pride that we all have in our school. The senior leadership are looking to appoint enthusiastic ECTs who are willing to grow and develop. The successful candidates will be expected to take up the appointment at the beginning of the Autumn Term 2025. We encourage all interested applicants to contact the school to arrange an informal visit, which will be held on: Friday 31 January 2025 at 10:00am, 2:00pm or 4:.00pm Please contact: pardeep.kaurgrove.bham.sch.uk to arrange an informal visit. You will be able to meet with senior leaders, ECTs and pupils during your informal visit. How to apply: Application packs can be downloaded from our school website Completed application forms should be returned to: vacancygrove.bham.sch.uk Interview dates: Wednesday 12 February and Thursday 13 February 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 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.