Vacancy Reference
JOB002523
Job Title
Class Teacher
Job Start Date
28 April 2025
Salary Range
MPR/UPR
Hours Per Week
32.5
School Address
James Watt Primary School
Boulton Road
Birmingham
B21 0RE
Telephone number: 0121 464 4736
Contact Email
recruitment@jameswattp.bham.sch.uk
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
29 November 2025, midday
Job Information

The Governing Body is seeking to appoint a Class Teacher who is passionate about teaching and learning, inspirational in the classroom, and can offer skills that complement those in our existing team.

We are a warm and welcoming school with a friendly staff and children, we welcome you to come and look around, please contact recruitment@jameswattp.bham.sch.uk or call us on 0121 464 4736 to arrange a visit

 The successful applicant will:

  • demonstrate strong subject knowledge
  • exhibit infectious enthusiasm and energy
  • share our ambition to provide the best opportunities for all our pupils in our richly diverse school community
  • be an outstanding teacher or have the desire and potential to be one
  • demonstrate high expectations of themselves and others and the motivation to ensure that standards continue to rise across the school for all learners

We can offer you:

  •  a “GOOD” school (Ofsted, 2019)
  • wonderfully polite and well-behaved children
  • experienced leaders and staff at all levels, who are highly ambitious, and who really care about the pupils and their colleagues
  • friendly, enthusiastic colleagues
  • supportive governors
  • quality training and support for staff at all stages of their career

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Short-listing date: 2 December 2024
Interviews: TBC

How to Apply

Please apply online

Safeguarding
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.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
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.