Job start date: 1 September 2025 Hours per week: Full time James Brindley Academy Bell Barn Road Birmingham B15 2AF Telephone number: 0121 666 6409 Contact email: vacanciesjamesbrindley.org.uk Contract type: Permanent This teaching role involves teaching young people with SEN needs who are unable to access mainstream education. Many of our young people have gaps in their education and we strive to implement creative teaching strategies to reduce the impact of educational disadvantage, enabling all our young people to access learning and make expected progress. We are looking for a resilient teacher who can inspire young people and support them to thrive. You should be able to develop and support the needs of the whole child and be committed to enabling all young people to achieve their potential. You must demonstrate tenacity coupled with experience of teaching Upper KS2 - KS4. You should have QTS and a track record as a consistently good/outstanding practitioner. The successful candidate will take responsibility for the teaching of core and some foundation subjects for a class. ‘Think Differently’ to inspire young people to overcome all barriers and achieve their dreams. This is the Vision Statement of James Brindley Academy. Do you want to have a positive impact on some of the most vulnerable children’s lives in Birmingham? Do you want to work in an organisation that recognises the benefits of a good work/life balance for their workforce? Do you want to work in an organisation that invests heavily in CPD and allocates additional training days to develop their staff? If you have answered ‘yes’ to all these questions, join our team Benefits of working for James Brindley Academy include: Employee Assistance Programme, which offers a 24-hour helpline for advice regarding legal, financial, medical, consumer, work and family matters, in addition to counselling Wellbeing champions allocated to each James Brindley Centre, who are committed to supporting all employees to improve their physical and mental wellbeing a benefits portal which has various offers including a cycle to work scheme, a low-cost health plan, childcare voucher scheme and dining discounts Teachers’ Pension or LGPS scheme free parking, near to Birmingham City Centre, which can be used evenings and weekends How to apply Please download Application Pack. Completed applications should be emailed to vacanciesjamesbrindley.org.uk. Please ensure that the application form is signed. If you have provided an email address, we will use that for correspondence, please ensure you check your junk/spam inboxes. If your application is shortlisted, we will contact you within 2 to 3 weeks of the closing date. 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.