Position Overview & Specifications

Job Information

Oasis Academy Short Heath

Streetly Road

Erdington

Birmingham

B23 5JP

Telephone number: 0121 373 6056

Email address: debbie.allen@oasisshortheath.org

Required for September 2023

We are looking for an experienced class teacher to join our hard-working and committed

staff team to start 1 September 2023. ECT’s are welcome to apply and if successful will be offered an initial 1-year contract. At this good school (Ofsted, December 2018) staff support each other and work as a team to promote high expectations of themselves and the children they teach. Experienced staff are well supported and have many opportunities for CPD with Oasis Community Learning and other Teaching Schools.

Our Academy is part of Oasis Community Learning, an educational trust established in 2004 with the express purpose of transforming learning, lives, and communities through the development of Oasis Academies. As a leading academy sponsor, this post offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a nationally growing organisation, making a difference to

communities on a local level while individually improving the life chances of young people. This position requires an outstanding individual with the drive, ambition, and commitment to raise the educational standards of our students. In return we will provide high quality support and CPD.

The successful candidate will be:

  • passionate in maintaining high standards of learning and ensuring good progress through quality teaching
  • innovative and enthusiastic
  • committed to ensure our children have an exciting and challenging educational experience
  • willing to be involved in all aspects of school life
  • an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
  • an ability to understand, share and be committed to the Oasis ethos of inclusion, equality, healthy relationships, hope and perseverance
How to apply

Closing date: 18 May 2023, midday

You can download an application pack or email: CSURecruitment@birmingham.gov.uk quoting ref: ES2379

Please return application forms to: CSURecruitment@birmingham.gov.uk

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: Teaching 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. This 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 Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.