Vacancy Reference
JOB002672
Job Title
Primary Teacher
Job Start Date
February 2025
Salary Range
MPS/UPS
Hours Per Week
40
School Address
Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Contact Email
Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Period of Fixed Term Contract
Fixed Term Contract Maternity Cover 1 year
Closing Date
2 December 2024, 10:00am
Job Information

Waverley Education Foundation Trust, Waverley School

We are a Humanities Specialist College which became an all through school in September 2012. We achieved IIP Gold in December 2013 and have also been awarded Teaching School Status. At Waverley we try to create an environment which allows everyone to develop mutual respect for each other and a respect for learning.

Waverley School is a friendly and welcoming all through school for pupils ages 4 to19, with a resource base for pupils with cognitive and learning difficulties. Our school community benefits greatly from our new, landmark award winning buildings that provide everyone with state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training.

At Waverley School we promote a culture of ‘Learning Through Diversity’. We are a forward thinking school with the highest of ambitions for all our pupils.

The successful applicants will:

  • have the ability to inspire, challenge and motivate all children to achieve, through their own best practice
  • create a classroom learning environment that is happy, challenging and engaging
  • a creative approach to the curriculum and the ability to deliver learning in an exciting way
  • take full advantage of the opportunities we offer in developing our curriculum and learning skills
  • be committed to working as part of a team
  • have experience of teaching in a Primary phase

In return we can offer you:

  • a unique opportunity to be a part of an ambitious ‘through school’ with an inclusive ethos
  • fantastic children who are a delight to teach and who enjoy learning
  • a supportive working environment with a range of opportunities for professional development

For an application pack please visit our website

Completed applications should be sent to Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk

Applications received after this date and time will not be considered.  

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.  

For further enquiries please call 0121 566 6607.

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.
Terms and Conditions
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
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.