- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003378
- Job Title
- Head Teacher
- Job Start Date
- 1 September 2025
- Salary Range
- L29 to L35
- Hours Per Week
- 32.5
- School Address
-
The Pines School
Marsh Hill
Birmingham
B23 7EY
Telephone number: 0121 464 6136 - Contact Email
- wendy@reachsupport.org.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 28 April 2025, 5:00pm
- Job Information
-
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, dynamic, passionate and strategic individual to deliver outstanding leadership and management within school. The successful applicant will be committed to the development and maintenance of a diverse, challenging and refreshed foundation curriculum for all our children.
We are a friendly and thriving school for pupils with Autism. We have children from EYFS to Year 11.
The school is a place where happy pupils succeed, which balances attainment with wider world skills acquisition and the development of well-rounded and happy children well equipped to thrive. We have a brilliant and cohesive staff team that has been exceptionally well led by our current Headteacher, and a very supportive community around the school.
The Pines Special School is a larger than normal special school, with a warm, welcoming and nurturing environment and the feel of a happy and thriving school. We are a victim of our own success and have daily applications for pupils to join our school. We are looking for a headteacher who is committed to continuing this uniqueness and maintain cohesion of our vision, values and ethos. We want to appoint someone who can sustain high attainment alongside developing the children as people and be able to inspire and secure the confidence of the children.
We have recently been inspected and are very proud to have maintain our good standard. The perfect quote from our report sums up our school, ‘this is a big school with an even bigger heart’.
We encourage you to visit The Pines and once you have selected one of the time slots above you can arrange your visit by contacting the schools office on 0121-464-6136. -
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.