Vacancy Reference
JOB002962
Job Title
Early Career Teacher
Job Start Date
1 July 2025
Salary Range
£31,650 - MPR
Hours Per Week
Full time
School Address
drb Ignite Multi Academy Trust
Three, Brindley Place
Birmingham
B1 2JB
Telephone number: 0121 231 7131
Contact Email
esweeney@drbignitemat.org
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
30 June 2025, 12:00 midday
Job Information

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as we are looking to appoint a number of exceptional and motivated Early Career Teachers across our family of schools.

The recruitment of committed, and inspirational staff is at the heart of our Trust’s vision to ensure: ‘All pupils achieve the highest standards of educational outcomes regardless of circumstance or background’

At our Trust, we believe that every child is a special individual, capable of extraordinary things. All schools support and challenge every child to do what they think they cannot, to persist, to work hard and to be their best. A defining feature of the Trust is that it is a specialist primary phase Trust.

This means that our work is driven by the distinctive needs of primary schools. The Trust currently operates twelve primary schools across the Birmingham and Dudley areas of the West Midlands and intend to grow further over the coming years. Supporting and developing your Early Career we know that starting out as a teacher is very rewarding and exciting, but it can also be challenging. Whether you are straight out of university or are a career changer, as an Early Career Teacher at our Trust, you will join a team of early career colleagues who will be supported by the Ambition Institute’s Early Career Programme Framework. This is part of the national ‘golden thread’ of teacher support that will enable you to focus on aspects of teaching that will make the most difference to your classroom practice.

How to apply:

Please apply online

If you have a preference for a particular school or schools in the Trust, please indicate this clearly on your application.

 

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.