- Vacancy Reference
- JOB002870
- Job Title
- KS1 Class Teacher
- Job Start Date
- 28 April 2025
- Salary Range
- MPR/UPR
- Hours Per Week
- 32.5
- School Address
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SS Peter & Paul Catholic Primary School,
Kingsbury Road,
Birmingham
B24 9ND - Contact Email
- hr@sjp2.net
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Period of Fixed Term Contract
- 28 April 2025 to 31 August 2027
- Closing Date
- 20 January 2025, midday
- Job Information
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The St John Paul II Multi Academy is a highly successful Catholic Multi Academy encompassing seven Primary Schools and two Secondary Schools. Our schools are based in Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Aston. The ethos of St John Paul II Multi Academy is Catholic and was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. As a Catholic multi academy, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. As a Catholic multi academy, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of every one of our school’s activities. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all staff within the multi academy. We therefore hope that all staff will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the St John Paul II Multi Academy.
SS Peter & Paul Catholic Primary School is a popular one form entry school. The Governors wish to appoint an enthusiastic qualified Class Teacher on a fixed term basis for two years and one term initially, with the view to making the role permanent, in a Key Stage 1 Class.
The successful applicants will:
- be supportive of the Catholic ethos of our school
- be required to provide academic, behavioural and social support for groups and individual children
- have a good understanding of the National Curriculum
- be enthusiastic and a good communicator
- have high standards of oral, written and numeracy skills
- be committed to raising pupils’ attainment, particularly in literacy and mathematics and have an understanding of intervention strategies applicable to KS1
- have experience of working within a Catholic school would be desirable but not essential
- be committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children
- have some subject leadership experience or be able to demonstrate a readiness to lead a foundation curriculum subject
We are a friendly staff with an outstanding reputation. Informal visits to the school are most welcome. Please call the school office to make an appointment. Experienced practitioners are encouraged to apply. St John Paul II Multi Academy is an Equal Opportunities employer.
Date of interviews: week commencing 20 January 2025
Please note we do not accept CVs, applications will only be considered if received on a Catholic Education application form.
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How to apply:
- 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.