- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003199
- Job Title
- Classroom Teacher (SEN)
- Job Start Date
- 1 September 2025
- Salary Range
- MPR/UPR + SEN Allowance
- School Address
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Dame Ellen Pinsent School
Ardencote Road
Birmingham
B13 0RW
Telephone number: 0121 675 2487 - Contact Email
- e.eustace@deps.ac
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 7 March 2025, 3:30pm
- Job Information
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The Governors are looking to appoint a Class Teacher who is an innovative and enthusiastic practitioner to join our dedicated team of staff and Governors. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in primary education either within mainstream or special education.
We are an outstanding and popular Special school for children with cognition and learning difficulties, with strong community links throughout the area of South Birmingham. Our buildings are located within spacious grounds with woods, storytelling area, and a huge potential for outdoor and creative learning. We are a well-resourced school that offers good professional development opportunities within a friendly, talented, multi-disciplinary team of colleagues.
At Dame Ellen Pinsent School you will:
• be supported to develop and grow as a teacher
• have the privilege of working with and contributing to the lives and education of inspirational children
• be a talented teacher who has experience of working with children with special education needs
• be flexible, committed and have excellent interpersonal skills
• benefit from IT equipment (e.g. laptop and iPad) and the schools Staff Well-being and Medical support
• be part of the exciting and innovative Birmingham Special Schools Cooperative Trust
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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.
- enhanced DBS; 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.